A randomized controlled trial of brain training with non-action video games in older adults: results of the 3-month follow-up.

ABSTRACT: This randomized controlled study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02007616) investigated the maintenance of training effects of 20 1-hr non-action video game training sessions with selected games from a commercial package on several age-declining cognitive functions and subjective wellbeing after a 3-month no-contact period. Two groups of cognitively normal older adults participated in both the post-training (posttest) and the present follow-up study, the experimental group who received training and the control group who attended several meetings with the research team during the study but did not receive training. Groups were similar at baseline on demographics, vocabulary, global cognition, and depression status. Significant improvements in the trained group, and no variation in the control group

SUBMITTER: Ballesteros S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4396447 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature