Cognitive benefits of social dancing and walking in old age: The dancing mind randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Merom, Dafna ^a   Grunseit, Anne ^b   Eramudugolla, Ranmalee ^c   Jefferis, Barbara ^d   Mcneill, Jade ^e   Anstey, Kaarin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dance; Executive functions; Physical activity; Physical function; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRIEF VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY TEST; COGNITION; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; DIGIT SPAN BACKWARDS TEST; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDOMETER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; STROOP TEST; TRAIL MAKING TEST; VERBAL RECALL; VISUOSPATIAL RECALL; WALKING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84960097918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00026     Document Type: Article

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