Resistance training promotes cognitive and functional brain plasticity in seniors with probable mild cognitive impairment

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 666-668

  Nagamatsu, Lindsay S ^a,b   Handy, Todd C ^a,b   Hsu, C Liang ^a,b   Voss, Michelle ^c   Liu Ambrose, Teresa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; LINGUAL GYRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SHORT PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BATTERY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SIX MINUTE WALK TEST; STROOP TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84860365593     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.379     Document Type: Letter

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