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The impact of behavioral interventions on cognitive function in healthy older adults: A systematic review.
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- Inter-individual differences in baseline dynamic functional connectivity are linked to cognitive aftereffects of tDCS.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Effects of combining exercise with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on cognitive function in the elderly: a randomised controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Effects of Combined Physical and Cognitive Stimulation on Go/No-Go Performance in Older Women: A Pilot and Feasibility Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
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- Auditory Training for Everyday Functioning in Later Life.Seminars in hearing · 2025Review
- Mapping computational cognitive profiles of aging to dissociable brain and sociodemographic factors.npj aging · 2024Article
- Associations of Cognitively Active Versus Passive Sedentary Behaviors and Cognition in Older Adults.Journal of physical activity & health · 2024Article
- Community-Based Strategies to Reduce Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Incidence Among Rural, Racially/Ethnically Diverse Older Adults.Current geriatrics reports · 2023Article
- Toward an Understanding of Healthy Cognitive Aging: The Importance of Lifestyle in Cognitive Reserve and the Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Review
- The role of cognitive rehabilitation in people with type 2 diabetes: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2023Article
- Maintained and Delayed Benefits of Executive Function Training and Low-Intensity Aerobic Exercise Over a 3.5-Year Period in Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Molecular and Brain Volume Changes Following Aerobic Exercise, Cognitive and Combined Training in Physically Inactive Healthy Late-Middle-Aged Adults: The Projecte Moviment Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Effects of Acute Exercise on Driving and Executive Functions in Healthy Older Adults.International journal of sport and exercise psychology · 2022Article
- Cognitive Training Attenuates Decline in Physical Function Across 10 Years.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Mentally Challenging Occupations Are Associated With More Rapid Cognitive Decline at Later Stages of Cognitive Aging.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Effects of foreign language learning on executive functions in healthy older adults: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- The Role of Exercise in Management of Mental Health Disorders: An Integrative Review.Annual review of medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
Behavioral interventions to improve cognitive function in older adults are widespread and can vary from theater classes to cognitive training programs. However, the effectiveness in maintaining different cognitive domains varies greatly both across and within intervention types. To date, no systematic reviews have synthesized findings across more than a few types of interventions (e.g., cognitive vs. exercise). This systematic review examined 11 types of behavioral interventions and the respective transfer to 19 cognitive domains, as well as transfer to everyday function. Study inclusion criteria were: peer-reviewed articles in English, samples of healthy adults aged 65 and older, and randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions with reported cognitive outcomes. The 2017 search yielded 75 eligible articles comprising cognitive training, exercise training, combination interventions, cognitively-stimulating activities, and action video games. In general, process- (n = 26) and strategy-based (n = 16) cognitive training improved the trained domains but had weak transfer to non-trained domains. Aerobic training (n = 13) most consistently improved executive function, and strength/resistance (n = 8) and aerobic/resistance combination training (n = 6) most consistently improved cognitive inhibition and visual working memory. Combination interventions (n = 15 nonfactorial, n = 3 factorial) showed promise in improving verbal delayed recall and executive function. Few studies examined cognitively-stimulating activities or action video games, leaving inconclusive results about their effect on cognitive function. Few studies examined everyday function (n = 9), however, process- and strategy-based training demonstrated notable long-term transfer. Recommendations for future research and practice are highlighted.
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