Structural brain changes after traditional and robot-assisted multi-domain cognitive training in community-dwelling healthy elderly.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate if multi-domain cognitive training, especially robot-assisted training, alters cortical thickness in the brains of elderly participants. A controlled trial was conducted with 85 volunteers without cognitive impairment who were 60 years old or older. Participants were first randomized into two groups. One group consisted of 48 participants who would receive cognitive training and 37 who would not receive training. The cognitive training group was randomly divided into two groups, 24 who received traditional cognitive training and 24 who received robot-assisted cognitive training. The training for both groups consisted of daily 90-min-session, five days a week for a total of 12 weeks. The primary outcome was the changes in corti

SUBMITTER: Kim GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405358 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature