A combination of physical activity and computerized brain training improves verbal memory and increases cerebral glucose metabolism in the elderly

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Shah, T ^a,b,c   Verdile, G ^b,c,d   Sohrabi, H ^a,b,c   Campbell, A ^e   Putland, E ^b   Cheetham, C ^a,b   Dhaliwal, S ^d   Weinborn, M ^a,b   Maruff, P ^f,g   Darby, D ^f,g,h   Martins, R N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b HOLLYWOOD PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g Scientific Division   (Australia)

^h FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGSTATE COMPUTERIZED BATTERY; COMPUTERIZED COGNITIVE TRAINING; CONTROLLED ORAL WORD ASSOCIATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEX; TRAINING; VERBAL MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY; AGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; LEARNING; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84927797394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.122     Document Type: Article

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