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Computerized cognitive training during physical inactivity improves executive functioning in older adults
Marusic U, Giordani B, Moffat SD, Petrič M, Dolenc P, Pišot R, Kavcic V.. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition, 2016-12-12
Topic: Risk, prevention and care in population studies
The hippocampus is closely tied to spatial navigation, a central component in cognitive functioning, and critically involved in age-associated cognitive decline and dementia. This study evaluated a novel, cognitive computerized spatial navigation training (CSNT) program targeting the hippocampus, with expectation of mitigating possible cognitive decline with bed rest (BR). During a 14-day BR study with 16 healthy, older men (mean age = 60 ± 3, range = 55-65 years), half received CSNT for 12 days in 50-min sessions and half were controls (watching documentaries). This design uniquely controlled diet, sleep, and other personal and environmental activities. Although there were no cognitive declines in controls post-BR, CSNT participants demonstrated significant increases in executive/attention ability and processing speed, and continued spatial navigation testing showed improvement to 400 days post-BR. This intervention may prove useful to mitigate cognitive declines known to occur in long periods of immobilization and could have broader implications in protecting against age-related cognitive decline.
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Marusic, U., Giordani, B., Moffat, S. D., Petrič, M., Dolenc, P., Pišot, R., et al. (2018). Computerized cognitive training during physical inactivity improves executive functioning in older adults. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2016.1263724
Vancouver
Marusic U, Giordani B, Moffat SD, Petrič M, Dolenc P, Pišot R, et al. Computerized cognitive training during physical inactivity improves executive functioning in older adults. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition. 2018. doi:10.1080/13825585.2016.1263724. PMID: 27937138.
BibTeX
@article{marusic2018-27937138,
author = {Marusic, U. and Giordani, B. and Moffat, S. D. and Petrič, M. and Dolenc, P. and Pišot, R. and Kavcic, V.},
title = {{Computerized cognitive training during physical inactivity improves executive functioning in older adults}},
journal = {Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1080/13825585.2016.1263724},
pmid = {27937138},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2016.1263724}
}
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Key findings
- Although there were no cognitive declines in controls post-BR, CSNT participants demonstrated significant increases in executive/attention ability and processing speed, and continued spatial navigation testing showed improvement to 400 days post-BR.
Study details
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How this study scored 38/100
Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Scored zero for study design, sample size, effect reported, studied in people and randomised / blinded because the record does not state it. We have no data on journal's citation record, times cited, citations per year, impact for its field and year, cited by studies here, still being cited, senior author's track record, institution's track record and multi-centre collaboration, so those were left out: it earned 22 of the 58 points we could judge it on, which is 38 out of 100.
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| Journal tier | 7 / 10 | Tier 3 — peer-reviewed journal (Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition) |
| Journal's citation record | — / 4 | No journal record from OpenAlex — left out of this score |
| Study design | 0 / 12 | No study design recorded — scores zero, not guessed (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Strength of evidence | 1 / 5 | Rated “low” in our summary |
| Peer-review validation | 10 / 10 | Peer-reviewed. Published as an article in a named peer-reviewed journal. |
| How recent | 2 / 5 | 2018 — within 10 year(s) of the newest study here |
| Sample size | 0 / 4 | Participant count not stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Effect reported | 0 / 3 | No effect size reported — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Studied in people | 0 / 3 | Not stated whether this was studied in people — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Randomised / blinded | 0 / 2 | No randomisation or blinding stated — scores zero (not stated in the record — scored 0) |
| Times cited | — / 7 | No citation count (not found in OpenAlex) — left out of this score |
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| Still being cited | — / 4 | No yearly citation counts — left out of this score |
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| Institution's track record | — / 3 | No institution listed in OpenAlex — left out of this score |
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| Indexed in PubMed | 2 / 2 | Indexed in PubMed (PMID 27937138) |
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| Points | 22 / 58 | Scored on 11 of 20 parts. We have no data for the rest, so they are left out: 22 of the 58 points we could judge it on is 38 out of 100. |
| Total | 38 / 100 | — |
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