Acute Exercise and Cognitive Function in Alzheimer's Disease
Autor: | Naomie Castor-Guyonvarch, Ines Ben Ayed, Chirine Aouichaoui, Souad Amimour, Sana Ben Omor, Zouhair Tabka, Salma Naija, Farid El Massioui |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Elementary cognitive task medicine.medical_specialty Prodromal Symptoms Neuropsychological Tests 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation Cognition Alzheimer Disease Heart rate Outcome Assessment Health Care Memory span medicine Aerobic exercise Humans Attention Exercise Aged Monitoring Physiologic business.industry Working memory General Neuroscience Patient Acuity 030229 sport sciences General Medicine medicine.disease Mental Status and Dementia Tests Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Memory Short-Term Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Alzheimer's disease business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Stroop effect |
Zdroj: | Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 82(2) |
ISSN: | 1875-8908 |
Popis: | Background: Many studies have shown the impact of acute aerobic exercises (AAE) on cognition in healthy adults or at a pre-dementia stage. Few studies, however, have explored the positive effects of AAE in moderate Alzheimer’s disease (ADM) patients. Objective: Evaluating the effect of AAE on cognitive functions in ADM patients. Methods: Overall, 79 (age: 69.62±0.99) ADM patients were recruited. Participants were divided into three groups according to the task: aerobic exercises done alone or combined with cognitive games presented on a screen, and a control group who performed a reading task. The aerobic exercise protocol consisted of a 20-min cycling exercise of moderate intensity, corresponding to 60%of the individual target maximal heart rate recorded in a 6-minute walking test. The participants’ cognition was monitored before and after the intervention using the Tower of Hanoi, Digit Span, and Stroop tasks. Results: After the exercise, the participants’ attention in both the physical and combined groups improved for the Stroop, the forward and backward Digit Span tasks, as well as the time taken to solve the Tower of Hanoi, although no significant differences were found in the number of moves taken in the latter. By contrast, the control group did not show any significant improvement for most of the cognitive tasks after the reading session. Conclusion: Current evidence suggests that AAE may help to improve cognitive functions in ADM patients. This improvement is enhanced when the exercise is combined with cognitive games. Safe and progressive types of exercises should be promoted among ADM patients. |
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