Effect of Exercise on the Cognitive Abilities of Alzheimer Patients

Abstract

aerobic brain, fitness in aging Plasma viscosity: Is a biomarker for the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia? Alzheimer dementia, biological and neuropsychological aspects [8] Blink reflex may help discriminate Alzheimer disease from vascular dementia [9] Geriatric psychiatry Prepare and validate the Persian version of the Mini-Mental State Examination [11] Evaluating reliability of the Montreal cognitive assessment test and its agreement with neurologist diagnosed among patients with cognitive complaints [12] Physical exercise as a preventive or disease-modifying treatment of dementia and brain aging [13] Cognitive rehabilitation an effective intervention to decrease the cognitive deficits in older with Effect of exercise on learning and memory in rats after Intracerebroventricular injection of streptozotocin Alzheimer’s; they had a mean age of 67 years old membered in the Alzheimer’s Association of Iran in 2015, who were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly divided into experimental (n=7) and control (n=7) groups. All patients were evaluated in two stages of pre-test and post-test with MMSE and MoCA tests. Then, for the experimental group, the exercise program was performed for 3 months, using a fixed bicycle twice a day in a week (Three times) and 45 minutes each day with the severity and tolerance of the patients. The data were analyzed by SPSS 22 software, using one-way analysis of covariance. Findings By controlling the effect of pre-test, there was a significant difference between the mean post-test scores of cognitive abilities in the experimental and control groups, and the mean scores in the experimental group were higher than that of the control group (p<0.01; F1,11=10.186). Conclusion Attending at the aerobic exercise program is effective in improving the cognitive abilities of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.