Effects of acute aerobic exercise on mnemonic discrimination performance in older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Ample evidence suggests exercise is beneficial for hippocampal function. Furthermore, a single session of aerobic exercise provides immediate benefits to mnemonic discrimination performance, a highly hippocampal-specific memory process, in healthy younger adults. However, it is unknown if a single session of aerobic exercise alters mnemonic discrimination in older adults, who generally exhibit greater hippocampal deterioration and deficits in mnemonic discrimination performance.

Methods

We conducted a within subject acute exercise study in 30 cognitively healthy and physically active older adults who underwent baseline testing and then completed two experimental visits in which they performed a mnemonic discrimination task before and after either 30 min of cycling

SUBMITTER: Callow DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538177 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature