Physical activity and cognivive functions

Physical activity and an active lifestyle have always been associated with a higher level of a person’s cognition. According to the latest researches, older adults are not an exception, despite the presence of brain lesions attached to dementia. In other words, cognition functions independently of brain pathologies that one may have and improves its performance when the physical activity takes place. Precisely aerobics influences the level growth of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and hippocampal volume, which consequently helps slow cognition decline.



A recent study approved the positive impact of an active lifestyle on cognitive performance. After a detailed examination of donated brains with pathologies after an average 91 death age was proven that daily activity improved global cognition proximate to death. The researches assessed brain tissue for Alzheimer’s disease, nigral neuronal loss, Lewy body disease pathology, hippocampal sclerosis, cerebral atherosclerosis, cerebral arteriolosclerosis, microscopic cerebral infarcts, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy. The participants obtained three different brain pathologies, one or more of which were observed. Compared and analyzed, the study showed that when the total of daily activity raised, the dementia risk reduced.

The idea claims that an energetic lifestyle provides a cognitive reserve, instead of an unstoppable development of Alzheimer’s disease and other brain pathologies. The only thing that must be discovered is the amount of daily activity needed to cut the risks of particular brain conditions and whether physical activity before the examination early in life has any impact on the results.