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Integrated cognitive and physical fitness training enhances attention abilities in older adults.

Joaquin A Anguera, Joshua J Volponi, Alexander J Simon, Courtney L Gallen, Camarin E Rolle, Roger Anguera-Singla, Erica A Pitsch, Christian J Thompson, Adam Gazzaley

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Article in npj aging, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Joaquin A AngueraNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA. Joaquin.anguera@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7216-0674
Joshua J VolponiNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Alexander J SimonNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Courtney L GallenNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4828-268X
Camarin E RolleNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Roger Anguera-SinglaNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Erica A PitschDepartment of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Christian J ThompsonDepartment of Kinesiology, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Adam GazzaleyNeuroscape, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA. Adam.gazzaley@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-9431

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preserving attention abilities is of great concern to older adults who are motivated to maintain their quality of life. Both cognitive and physical fitness interventions have been utilized in intervention studies to assess maintenance and enhancement of attention abilities in seniors, and a coupling of these approaches is a compelling strategy to buttress both cognitive and physical health in a time- and resource-effective manner. With this perspective, we created a closed-loop, motion-capture video game (Body-Brain Trainer: BBT) that adapts a player's cognitive and physical demands in an integrated approach, thus creating a personalized and cohesive experience across both domains. Older adults who engaged in two months of BBT improved on both physical fitness (measures of blood pressure and balance) and attention (behavioral and neural metrics of attention on a continuous performance task) outcome measures beyond that of an expectancy matched, active, placebo control group, with maintenance of improved attention performance evidenced 1 year later. Following training, the BBT group's improvement on the attention outcome measure exceeded performance levels attained by an untrained group of 20-year olds, and showed age-equilibration of a neural signature of attention shown to decline with age: midline frontal theta power. These findings highlight the potential benefits of an integrated, cognitive-physical, closed-loop training platform as a powerful tool for both cognitive and physical enhancement in older adults.

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PMID36042247
PMCPMC9427998

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