ArticleBrain sciences2012
Aging, aerobic activity and interhemispheric communication.
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- Bimanual digit training improves right-hand dexterity in older adults by reactivating declined ipsilateral motor-cortical inhibition.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Older Physical Education Teachers' Wellbeing at Work and Its Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Fitness Level Influences White Matter Microstructure in Postmenopausal Women.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Article
- Community-Based Activity and Sedentary Patterns Are Associated With Cognitive Performance in Mobility-Limited Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Article
- Does physical activity benefit motor performance and learning of upper extremity tasks in older adults? - A systematic review.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2017Review
- Influences of 12-Week Physical Activity Interventions on TMS Measures of Cortical Network Inhibition and Upper Extremity Motor Performance in Older Adults-A Feasibility Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2017Article
- The relevance of aging-related changes in brain function to rehabilitation in aging-related disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Aerobic training as a means to enhance inhibition: what's yet to be studied?European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2015Article
- Effects of aerobic fitness on aging-related changes of interhemispheric inhibition and motor performance.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown that during unimanual motor tasks, aging adults show bilateral recruitment of primary motor cortex (M1), while younger adults show a suppression of the ipsilateral motor cortex. Additional work has indicated that increased bilateral M1 recruitment in older adults may be deleterious when performing some motor tasks. However, higher levels of physical fitness are associated with improved dexterity and fitness may mitigate the loss of both inhibitory and excitatory communication in aging adults. The goal of this study was to assess dexterity and interhemispheric motor communication in physically fit and sedentary middle-age (40-60 years) right handed participants using tests of hand deftness and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). To behaviorally assess the influence of interhemispheric communication on motor performance, participants also perform the coin rotation deftness task while maintaining pinch force with the opposite hand (bimanual condition). We correlated these behavioral measures with the ipsilateral silent period using TMS to assess interhemispheric inhibition. Our results show that the middle-aged adults who were physically fit had better dexterity of their right hand (finger tapping and peg-board). When performing the coin rotation task the fit group had no between hand differences, but the sedentary group's left hand performance was inferior to the their right hand. We found that better dexterity correlated with ipsilateral silent period duration (greater inhibition) thereby supporting the postulate that fitness improves interhemispheric motor communication.
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