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Open AccessCorrection to: Pre-frail older adults show improved cognition with StayFitLonger computerized home–based training: a randomized controlled trial
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Open AccessPre-frail older adults show improved cognition with StayFitLonger computerized home–based training: a randomized controlled trial
Multidomain interventions have shown tremendous potential for improving cognition in older adults. It is unclear if multidomain interventions can be delivered remotely and whether remote intervention is benefi...
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Reply to ‘Efficiency and capacity mechanisms can coexist in cognitive training’
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Open AccessMultidomain trials to prevent dementia: addressing methodological challenges
Multidomain trials to prevent dementia by simultaneously targeting multiple risk factors with non-pharmacological lifestyle interventions show promise. Designing trials to evaluate the efficacy of individual i...
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Open AccessMechanisms of processing speed training and transfer effects across the adult lifespan: protocol of a multi-site cognitive training study
In recent years, cognitive training has gained popularity as a cost-effective and accessible intervention aiming at compensating for or even counteracting age-related cognitive declines during adulthood. Where...
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Open AccessHaving a stimulating lifestyle is associated with maintenance of white matter integrity with age
Brain maintenance refers to the fact that some older adults experience few age-related changes in the brain, which helps maintain their cognition. The goal of this study was to assess maintenance of white matt...
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Mechanisms underlying training-induced cognitive change
The prospect of enhancing cognition through behavioural training interventions, for example, the repetitive practice of cognitive tasks or metacognitive strategy instruction, has seen a surge in popularity ove...
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Open AccessCogTale: an online platform for the evaluation, synthesis, and dissemination of evidence from cognitive interventions studies
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are critical in health-related decision-making, and are considered the gold standard in research synthesis methods. However, with new trials being regularly published and w...
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Open AccessCOVEPIC (Cognitive and spOrt Virtual EPIC training) investigating the effects of home-based physical exercise and cognitive training on cognitive and physical functions in community-dwelling older adults: study protocol of a randomized single-blinded clinical trial
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown and social distancing measures are applied to prevent the spread of the virus. It is well known that confinement and social isolation can have a negative impac...
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Cognitive Training in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Alzheimer’s disease is characterised by a slow progression and by an extensive prodromal phase during which symptoms are dormant or very mild. The term mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been used to refer to...
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Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms that Predict Cognitive Decline or Impairment in Cognitively Normal Middle-Aged or Older Adults: a Meta-Analysis
Epidemiological studies have revealed that behavioral and psychological (or non-cognitive) symptoms are risk factors for cognitive decline in older adults. This study aimed to systematically review the literat...
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Open AccessSex differences in the relationship between dietary pattern adherence and cognitive function among older adults: findings from the NuAge study
Consumption of a prudent dietary pattern rich in healthy nutrients is associated with enhanced cognitive performance in older adulthood, while a Western dietary pattern low in healthy nutrients is associated w...
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Inhibitory Control Deficits in Individuals with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Meta-Analysis
Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is a prodromal stage of Alzheimer’s disease that is characterized by impairments in episodic memory. Recent evidence has shown that inhibitory control is also impaired...
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Virtual Savannah: An Effective Therapeutic and Relaxing Treatment for People with Subjective Cognitive Decline
In an attempt to make the therapeutic aspect less aversive, more attractive and engaging, virtual reality, an increasingly popular application in healthcare, offers an interesting alternative to pharmacologica...
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Adaptive Music Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Virtual Reality
With Alzheimer’s disease becoming more prevalent, finding effective treatment is imperative. While no pharmacological treatment has yet proven to be efficient, we explore how technology can be integrated into ...
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Virtual Reality Orientation Game for Alzheimer’s Disease Using Real-Time Help System
Studies support cognitive training as a potentially efficient method to postpone cognitive decline in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Virtual reality (VR) based serious games have found applicati...
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Improving Cognitive and Emotional State Using 3D Virtual Reality Orientation Game
Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) exhibit an impairment in performing tasks related to spatial navigation. Tasks which require navigational skills by building a cognitive map of the surrounding ...
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Playing Super Mario increases oculomotor inhibition and frontal eye field grey matter in older adults
Aging is associated with cognitive decline and decreased capacity to inhibit distracting information. Video game training holds promise to increase inhibitory mechanisms in older adults. In the current study, ...
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Publisher Correction: Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing
In Figure 3b of the originally published article, the colours of the bars were incorrectly reversed. The bars shown in green should have been shown in blue to represent the findings from older adults, whereas ...
