Acute moderate exercise enhances compensatory brain activation in older adults

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2621-2632

  Hyodo, Kazuki ^a   Dan, Ippeita ^b   Suwabe, Kazuya ^a   Kyutoku, Yasushi ^b   Yamada, Yuhki ^a   Akahori, Mitsuya ^a   Byun, Kyeongho ^a   Kato, Morimasa ^c   Soya, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Health and Nutrition   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compensation; Executive function; Frontopolar area; Functional near infrared spectroscopy; Moderate exercise; Normal aging; Opticaltopography; Prefrontal cortex; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST;

AGED; BRAIN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84865584626     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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