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ReviewEuropean review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity2017

The beneficial effects of different types of exercise interventions on motor and cognitive functions in older age: a systematic review.

Oron Levin, Yael Netz, Gal Ziv

2 registry-linked trialsOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 74 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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74citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04311931 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of a Creative Dance Program on Well-being, Physical Function, Body Awareness, and Rhythm Perception and Reproduction of Community-dwelling Older Adults

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of ÉvoraRan2020 to 2020Enrolled38ConditionsCommunity-dwelling Older AdultsArmsActive Dance Program
NCT06252844 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

The Impact of 6-months of Resistance Training on Intrinsic Capacity, Cognition, and Brain/Circulating Biomarkers of Neuroplasticity and Neuroinflammation in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

TypeinterventionalSponsorLithuanian Sports UniversityRan2024 to 2025Enrolled80ConditionsMild Cognitive Impairment, Older Adults at High Risk for MCIArmsResistance exercise training, Active control
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

74 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Effects of different training characteristics in combined resistance and cognitive training on motor and cognitive performance 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 · 2026
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14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Oron LevinMovement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Biomedical Sciences Group, Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
Yael NetzThe Academic College at Wingate, Netanya, Israel.
Gal ZivThe Academic College at Wingate, Netanya, Israel.
Academic College at Wingate · ILKU Leuven · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The decline in cognitive and motor functions with age affects the performance of the aging healthy population in many daily life activities. Physical activity appears to mitigate this decline or even improve motor and cognitive abilities in older adults. The current systematic review will focus mainly on behavioral studies that look into the dual effects of different types of physical training (e.g., balance training, aerobic training, strength training, group sports, etc.) on cognitive and motor tasks in older adults with no known cognitive or motor disabilities or disease. Our search retrieved a total of 1095 likely relevant articles, of which 41 were considered for full-text reading and 19 were included in the review after the full-text reading. Overall, observations from the 19 included studies conclude that improvements on both motor and cognitive functions were found, mainly in interventions that adopt physical-cognitive training or combined exercise training. While this finding advocates the use of multimodal exercise training paradigms or interventions to improve cognitive-motor abilities in older adults, the sizeable inconsistency among training protocols and endpoint measures complicates the generalization of this finding.

Indexed as

BrainCognitive functionsCognitive-motor trainingExerciseMotor functions

Identifiers

PMID29276545
PMCPMC5738846
OpenAlexW2777621648

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Registered trials

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