ReviewFrontiers in aging neuroscience2019
Biological Sex: A Potential Moderator of Physical Activity Efficacy on Brain Health.
Review in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of Sport-Based Exercise Interventions on Executive Function in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of isometric handgrip exercise on cognitive function: Current evidence, methodology, and safety considerations.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- The (cost-)effectiveness of exercise therapy adjunct to guideline-concordant care for depression: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Trial
- Changes in cardiovascular health and white matter integrity with aerobic exercise, cognitive and combined training in physically inactive healthy late-middle-aged adults: the "Projecte Moviment" randomized controlled trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
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- Is it all in the baseline? Trajectories of chair stand performance over 4 years and their association with grey matter structure in older adults.Human brain mapping · 2023Trial
- Aerobic exercise improves executive functions in females, but not males, without the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism.Biology of sex differences · 2023Trial
- Associations between indicators of self-rated health, cognitive function, risk of cognitive impairment, and dementia: a coordinated data analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Sex and Gender Differences in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep During Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery: A Narrative Review.European journal of sport science · 2026Review
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- Associations between self-reported change in lifestyle behaviors and brain health: Findings from the Healthy Brain Initiative.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2026Article
- The active ingredients: physical activity features linked to healthy brain aging.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2026Article
- Can aerobic exercise really improve factors related to decision-making capacity in aging? What has been measured, what has been assumed, and what needs to change.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Move to Remember: The Role of Physical Activity and Exercise in Preserving and Enhancing Cognitive Function in Aging-A Narrative Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Beyond FITT: addressing density in understanding the dose-response relationships of physical activity with health-an example based on brain health.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- Bidirectional associations of physical activity and cognitive function in midlife adults: a longitudinal analysis across 26 years follow-up.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Gender Differences in the Effects of Exercise Interventions on Alzheimer's Disease.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- No significant association between self-reported physical activity and brain volumes in women and men from five European cohorts.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Physical Activity or Inactivity and Fatigue in Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Isolation and Immunomodulatory Activity of Cyanidin-3-O-(3,6-O-dimalonyl-β-D-glucoside) from the Black Corncob (Zea mays L.) and its Effect on Gut Microbiota in Elderly Feces under Anaerobic Conditions in vitro.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Article
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Abstract
The number of older people worldwide living with cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative diseases is growing at an unprecedented rate. Despite accumulating evidence that engaging in physical activity is a promising primary behavioral strategy to delay or avert the deleterious effects of aging on brain health, a large degree of variation exists in study findings. Thus, before physical activity and exercise can be prescribed as "medicine" for promoting brain health, it is imperative to understand how different biological factors can attenuate or amplify the effects of physical activity on cognition at the individual level. In this review article, we briefly discuss the current state of the literature, examining the relationship between physical activity and brain health in older adults and we present the argument that biological sex is a potent moderator of this relationship. Additionally, we highlight some of the potential neurobiological mechanisms underlying this sex difference for this relatively new and rapidly expanding line of research.
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