Toronto, Nov 23 (PTI) Just 20 minutes of high-intensity exercise may help improve memory, suggests a study which could have implications for ageing populations grappling with diseases such as dementia and Alzheimers. In the study, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, memory performance of the participants, who were all healthy young adults, increased over a relatively short period of time. For the study, 95 participants completed six weeks of exercise training, combined exercise and cognitive training or no training (the control group which did neither and remained sedentary). Both the exercise and combined training groups improved performance on a high-interference memory task, while the control group did not. Researchers have begun to examine older adults to determine if they will experience the same positive results with the combination of exercise and cognitive training.

Source: India Today November 23, 2017 12:11 UTC