ArticleNeural plasticity2018
Acute Exercise as an Intervention to Trigger Motor Performance and EEG Beta Activity in Older Adults.
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- Oscillatory dynamics of motor learning across adulthood life span: a systematic review.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Resting State EEG in Exercise Intervention Studies: A Systematic Review of Effects and Methods.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
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- Changes in EEG Activity and Cognition Related to Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Examination of acute spin exercise on GABA levels in aging and stroke: The EASE study protocol.PloS one · 2024Article
- Does acute aerobic exercise enhance selective attention, working memory, and problem-solving abilities in Alzheimer's patients? A sex-based comparative study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Effect of 24-form simplified Tai Chi on executive inhibitory control of college students: a randomized controlled trial of EEG.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Physical exercise for brain plasticity promotion an overview of the underlying oscillatory mechanism.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Classification of age groups and task conditions provides additional evidence for differences in electrophysiological correlates of inhibitory control across the lifespan.Brain informatics · 2023Article
- Aging-induced alterations in EEG spectral power associated with graded force motor tasks.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Acute Aerobic Exercise-Induced Motor Priming Improves Piano Performance and Alters Motor Cortex Activation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Physical activity, motor performance and skill learning: a focus on primary motor cortex in healthy aging.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
- A Single Bout of High-Intensity Cardiovascular Exercise Does Not Enhance Motor Performance and Learning of a Visuomotor Force Modulation Task, but Triggers Ipsilateral Task-Related EEG Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Regular participation in leisure time activities and high cardiovascular fitness improve motor sequence learning in older adults.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Inhibition-The Effects of Acute Cardiovascular Exercise.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Current Methodological Pitfalls and Caveats in the Assessment of Exercise-Induced Changes in Peripheral Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: How Result Reproducibility Can Be Improved.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2021Review
- A Short-Term Intervention of High-Intensity Exercise and Anodal-tDCS on Motor Learning in Middle-Aged Adults: An RCT.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Dual-Task Training Affect Cognitive and Physical Performances and Brain Oscillation Ratio of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Acute bouts of exercise have been shown to improve fine motor control performance and to facilitate motor memory consolidation processes in young adults. Exercise effects might be reflected in EEG task-related power (TRPow) decreases in the beta band (13-30 Hz) as an indicator of active motor processing. This study aimed to investigate those effects in healthy older adults. Thirty-eight participants (65-74 years of age) were assigned to an experimental (EG, acute exercise) or a control group (CG, rest). Fine motor control was assessed using a precision grip force modulation (FM) task. FM performance and EEG were measured at (1) baseline (immediately before acute exercise/rest), (2) during practice sessions immediately after, (3) 30 minutes, and (4) 24 hours (FM only) after exercise/rest. A marginal significant effect indicated that EG revealed more improvement in fine motor performance immediately after exercise than CG after resting. EG showed enhanced consolidation of short-term and long-term motor memory, whereas CG revealed only a tendency for short-term motor memory consolidation. Stronger TRPow decreases were revealed immediately after exercise in the contralateral frontal brain area as compared to the control condition. This finding indicates that acute exercise might enhance cortical activation and thus, improves fine motor control by enabling healthy older adults to better utilize existing frontal brain capacities during fine motor control tasks after exercise. Furthermore, acute exercise can act as a possible intervention to enhance motor memory consolidation in older adults.
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