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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2020

Cognitive and Psychosocial Outcomes of Self-Guided Executive Function Training and Low-Intensity Aerobic Exercise in Healthy Older Adults.

Lixia Yang, Sara N Gallant, Leanne Karyn Wilkins, Ben Dyson

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06270862 (A Digital Active Aging Training Program for Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT06270862 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2024, after this paper: background citation

A Digital Active Aging Training Program for Older Adults

TypeinterventionalSponsorToronto Metropolitan UniversityRan2024 to 2024Enrolled240ConditionsHealthy Aging, Cognitive Change, Psychological Stress, LonelinessArmsResilience training, cognitive training, physical exercise, social interaction, workshop series
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lixia YangDepartment of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sara N GallantDepartment of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Leanne Karyn WilkinsDepartment of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ben DysonDepartment of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Toronto Metropolitan University · CAUniversity of Alberta · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesPrior work has demonstrated that executive function training or physical exercise can improve older adults' cognition. The current study takes an exploratory approach to compare the feasibility and efficacy of online executive function training and low-intensity aerobic exercise for improving cognitive and psychosocial functioning in healthy older adults.

methodFollowing a standard pretest-training-posttest protocol, 40 older adults (aged 65 and above) were randomly assigned to an executive function or a physical training group. A battery of cognitive and psychosocial outcome measures were administered before and after training. During the 10 weeks of self-guided training at home (25-30 min/day, 4 days/week), the executive function training group practiced a set of adaptive online executive function tasks designed by Lumos Labs, whereas the physical training group completed an adaptive Digital Video Disc (DVD)-based low-intensity aerobic exercise program.

resultsTraining transfer effects were limited. Relative to low-intensity aerobic exercise, executive function training yielded cognitive improvement on the 64-card Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST-64), a general executive function measure. Depression and stress levels dropped following both training programs, but this could be driven by decreased stress or excitement in performing the tasks over time. DISCUSSION: The results revealed limited cognitive benefits of the online executive function training program, specifically to a near transfer test of general executive control. Importantly, the current study supports the feasibility of home-based self-guided executive function and low-intensity physical training with healthy older adults.

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aerobic exerciseagingexecutive functionsexecutive function trainingLumositypsychosocial functions

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PMID33328958
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