Trial reportAnnals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine2025
Cognitive Health Benefits of Everyday Physical Activity in a Diverse Sample of Middle-Aged Adults.
Trial report in Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03240406 (Multicultural Healthy Diet to Reduce Cognitive Decline & Alzheimer's Disease Risk), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Multicultural Healthy Diet to Reduce Cognitive Decline & Alzheimer's Disease Risk
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- High-intensity interval training differentially modulates acute BDNF and cognitive responses in young adult males: a randomized crossover trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- The effects of the Multicultural Healthy Diet on cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease risk: a phase II randomized controlled trial in middle-aged adults.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
- The myth of digital biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: how to make them a reality.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Not just how much, but how it's done: movement activity bout distributions and everyday cognition in older adults with elevated dementia risk.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2026Article
- Higher Amyloid and Tau Burden Is Associated With Faster Decline on a Digital Cognitive Test.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2026Article
- Physical Activity, Cognitive Function, and Learning Processes: The Role of Environmental Context.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Physical Activity, Imaging, and Ambulatory Testing (PHIAT) Project: Protocol for a High-Frequency Ambulatory Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Combinations of light, moderate, and vigorous physical activity in midlife and old age: implications for healthy cognitive aging.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Daily Movement Activities Are Associated With Within-Person Instability of Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Evidence From an Ambulatory Assessment Study.Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- From hypoxic pockets to daily routines: linking brain oxygenation and cognitive resilience.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundPhysical activity has been associated with a wide range of health benefits including long-term benefits for cognitive and brain health. Whether episodes of everyday physical activity are associated with immediate cognitive benefits remains unknown. PURPOSE: The purpose of the current study was to examine whether episodes of physical activity, occurring over the course of participants' daily lives, are associated with short-term improvements in cognitive health.
methodsParticipants completed a 9-day ecological momentary assessment protocol involving 5 daily assessments of self-reported physical activity and ambulatory cognitive assessments of processing speed and visuospatial working memory. Data were analyzed in a multilevel modeling framework to explore changes in performance on each task associated with physical activity during the period leading up to the assessment as well as individual differences in average frequency of physical activity.
resultsResults of MLMs indicated that engaging in physical activity during the period (~3.5 hr) leading up to an assessment was associated with improvements in processing speed equivalent to 4 years of cognitive aging. Such improvements were observed for both light and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels. No association was observed for visuospatial working memory accuracy; however, response time during the working memory task reliably mirrored the association observed for processing speed. The short-term benefits were observed, particularly, for individuals with an overall higher frequency of reported physical activity.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that engaging in everyday physical activity of any intensity level may have short-term, acute benefits for cognitive health and point to new potential targets for intervention. CLINICAL TRIAL INFORMATION: NCT03240406.
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