Trial reportJournal of internal medicine2022
Aerobic exercise training and neurocognitive function in cognitively normal older adults: A one-year randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exercise modalities in mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of comparative effectiveness.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Rethinking exercise dose for cognitive ageing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physical dose and cognitive-motor demands.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness Following Exercise Training Prescribed Relative to Traditional Intensity Anchors and Physiological Thresholds: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Aerobic exercise training effects on hippocampal volume in healthy older individuals: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.GeroScience · 2024Pooled it
- Exercise intervention on the brain structure and function of patients with mild cognitive impairment: systematic review based on magnetic resonance imaging studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The Effects of Different Exercise Interventions on Patients with Subjective Cognitive Decline: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2024Pooled it
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- Effects of aerobic exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness on white matter free water fraction in older adults: a 1-year randomized controlled trial.GeroScience · 2026Trial
- The effect of different exercise modalities on older adults' quality of life: an assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Effects of exercise on cognition and Alzheimer's biomarkers in a randomized controlled trial of adults with mild cognitive impairment: The EXERT study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Trial
- Effects of exercise versus usual care on older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: EXERT versus ADNI.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Trial
- One-year aerobic exercise increases cerebral blood flow in cognitively normal older adults.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023Trial
- Aerobic exercise training reduces cerebrovascular impedance in older adults: a 1-year randomized controlled trial.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2022Trial
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- Exercise Training for Cerebrovascular and Cognitive Health in Adults at Risk of Cognitive Decline: A Scoping Review of Healthcare Translation and Evidence Gaps.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- A longitudinal study on the effect of aerobic exercise intervention on working memory of college students with internet addiction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A cascade model of dynamic cerebral autoregulation.The Journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Differential effects of cognitive training and aerobic exercise on regional gray matter volume and inter-regional covariance in community-dwelling older adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Effects of different exercises on renal and cardiovascular function in adult patients with chronic kidney disease not receiving dialysis: a network meta-analysis.BMC nephrology · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrent evidence is inconsistent on the benefits of aerobic exercise training for preventing or attenuating age-related cognitive decline in older adults.
objectiveTo investigate the effects of a 1-year progressive, moderate-to-high intensity aerobic exercise intervention on cognitive function, brain volume, and cortical thickness in sedentary but otherwise healthy older adults.
methodsWe randomized 73 older adults to a 1-year aerobic exercise or stretching-and-toning (active control) program. The primary outcome was a cognitive composite score calculated from eight neuropsychological tests encompassing inductive reasoning, long-term and working memory, executive function, and processing speed. Secondary outcomes were brain volume and cortical thickness assessed by MRI, and cardiorespiratory fitness measured by peak oxygen uptake (VO
resultsOne-year aerobic exercise increased peak VO
conclusionsOne-year aerobic exercise and stretching interventions improved cognitive performance but did not prevent age-related brain volume loss in sedentary healthy older adults. Cardiorespiratory fitness gain was positively correlated with cognitive performance and regional cortical thickness.
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