Exercise, then brain training could be game-changer for slowing dementia: Canadian study – GLOBAL

August 18, 2023

Delaying the onset of dementia, without pharmaceuticals?

Canadian researchers believe that combining exercising and brain training, in that order, can slow cognitive decline – and potentially even improve cognition – for older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

A multi-city clinical trial suggests that exercise and cognitive training together have a bigger impact than the sum of its parts and lead researcher Manuel Montero-Odasso, based out of London, Ont., says the results are clinically significant.

“Just to put this in perspective, if you want to get any medication for cognitive impairment or dementia approved by FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) or Health Canada, you need to show at least a three-point improvement in the ADAS-COG, which is the scale we use. And we found just with this combination an improvement was -2.7 points, so very close to the three points,” he said.

Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/9902858/exercise-brain-training-slow-dementia-western-university-study/