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A life-long approach to physical activity for brain health
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posted on 2017-05-01, 00:00 authored by Helen MacphersonHelen Macpherson, Wei-Peng TeoWei-Peng Teo, L A Schneider, A E SmithIt is well established that engaging in lifelong Physical activity (PA) can help delay the onset of many chronic lifestyle related and non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. Additionally, growing evidence also documents the importance of PA for brain health, with numerous studies indicating regular engagement in physical activities may be protective against cognitive decline and dementia in late life. Indeed, the link between PA and brain health may be different at each stage of life from childhood, mid-life and late life. Building on this emerging body of multidisciplinary research, this review aims to summarize the current body of evidence linking regular PA and brain health across the lifespan. Specifically, we will focus on the relationship between PA and brain health at three distinct stages of life: childhood and adolescence, mid-life, late life in cognitively healthy adults and later life in adults living with age-related neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Frontiers in aging neuroscienceVolume
9Article number
147Pagination
1 - 12Publisher
FrontiersLocation
Lausanne, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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1663-4365Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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