Resistance Training Improves Memory in MCI
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High-intensity progressive resistance training (PRT) improves cognition in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and these improvements are mediated through gains in strength, not aerobic capacity, a randomized trial indicates. Older adults commonly have symptoms such as musculoskeletal pain, claudication, or shortness of breath that may limit their exercise capacity.
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@oindrila Resistance exercise and computerized cognitive training (multimodal and multidomain exercises targeting memory, executive function, attention and speed of information processing). Resistance exercise and placebo computerized training. Brain training and a placebo exercise program (seated stretching/calisthenics designed not to increase heart rate or enhance either aerobic capacity or strength). Placebo physical exercise and placebo cognitive training