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Sex differences in exercise efficacy to improve cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in older humans

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It is suggested that women's executive processes may benefit more from exercise than men, and aerobic training led to greater benefits than resistance training in global cognitive function and executive functions, while multimodal combinedTraining led togreat benefits than aerobic training for global Cognitive function, episodic memory, and word fluency.
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This article is published in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 247 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Aerobic exercise & Executive functions.

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Modifying effects of race and ethnicity and APOE on the association of physical activity with risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

TL;DR: MVPA was inversely associated with ADRD, and the association was inverse in all racial and ethnic groups except Black participants, but stronger in individuals with lower levels of sitting duration or those who do not carry the APOE e4 risk allele.
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Happiness, depression, physical activity and cognition among the middle and old-aged population in China: a conditional process analysis

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the effect of depression and physical activity on the relationship between happiness and cognition among middle and old-aged individuals in China and found that happiness had a significant positive effect on cognition.
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The Effects of Exercise on Cognition Post-Stroke: Are There Sex Differences?

TL;DR: The findings suggest that there is no clear rationale for incorporating sex into the authors' clinical decision making, and it is still imperative to consider sex factors in research and report results in the literature disaggregated by sex to help inform clinical practice.
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COVID-19 Quarantine Impact on Wellbeing and Cognitive Functioning During a 10-Week High-Intensity Functional Training Program in Young University Students

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed whether high-intensity functional training (HIFT) can affect reaction time (RT) and vitality, as well as positive and negative affect, and found that HIFT improved RT without changes in psychological wellbeing during the entire period of training supervised and online.
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CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials

TL;DR: This update of the CONSORT statement improves the wording and clarity of the previous checklist and incorporates recommendations related to topics that have only recently received recognition, such as selective outcome reporting bias.
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Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory

TL;DR: It is shown that aerobic exercise training increases the size of the anterior hippocampus, leading to improvements in spatial memory, and that increased hippocampal volume is associated with greater serum levels of BDNF, a mediator of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus.
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Fitness Effects on the Cognitive Function of Older Adults: A Meta-Analytic Study

TL;DR: Fitness training was found to have robust but selective benefits for cognition, with the largest fitness-induced benefits occurring for executive-control processes.
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