—Patients with greater cognitive dysfunction had a more pronounced change in walking performance during dual-task walking, according to this study. Cognitive-motor dual-tasking, such as simultaneously ...
Boston, MA -- Walking is a complex task that is most commonly performed while completing other tasks like talking, reading signs, or making decisions. For most, after the age of 65, such “dual tasking ...
Some young and healthy people improve performance on cognitive tasks while walking by changing the use of neural resources, according to a new study. It has long been thought that when walking is ...
The ability to multitask while waking starts declining by age 55, a recent study found. Meaning middle age adults may have a harder time walking and talking, among other activities, at the same time a ...
“It was surprising that for some of the subjects it was easier for them to do dual-tasking – do more than one task – compared to single-tasking – doing each task separately.” Walking while engaging in ...
Correspondence to Fionn Büttner, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy, and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Dublin, Ireland; fionn.cleirigh-buttner{at}ucdconnect.ie Objectives To ...
It has long been thought that when walking is combined with a task – both suffer. Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester found that this is not always ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- At the Pacific Brain Health Center at the Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, Richa Rajan is working both brain and body on a Cyber Cycle. "I'm trying to really pay ...
Cognitive training works. But does it work equally well for all people? A new study suggests that the effectiveness of working memory training depends heavily on personality. Barbara Studer-Luethi and ...