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Mobility and Upright Posture Are Associated with Different Aspects of Cognition in Older Adults

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, November 2016
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Title
Mobility and Upright Posture Are Associated with Different Aspects of Cognition in Older Adults
Published in
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, November 2016
DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00257
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Authors

Rajal G. Cohen, Anita N. Vasavada, Michelle M. Wiest, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe

Abstract

Objectives: Aging is associated with cognitive decline, including visuomotor and memory concerns, and with motor system changes, including gait slowing and stooped posture. We investigated the associations of visuomotor performance and episodic memory with motor system characteristics in healthy older adults. Methods: Neurologically healthy older adults (N = 160, aged 50-89) completed a battery of cognitive and motor tasks. Cognitive variables were grouped by principal components analysis (PCA) into two components: visuomotor performance and verbal episodic memory. Our primary predictor variables were two aspects of motor function: timed-up-and-go (TUG) speed and neck angle. Additional predictor variables included demographic factors (age, sex and education) and indicators of physical fitness (body mass index/BMI and grip strength). All seven predictor variables were entered stepwise into a multiple regression model for each cognitive component. Results: Poor visuomotor performance was best predicted by a combination of advanced age, high BMI and slow TUG, whereas poor verbal memory performance was best predicted by a combination of advanced age, male sex, low education and acute neck angle. Conclusions: Upright posture and mobility were associated with different cognitive processes, suggesting different underlying neural mechanisms. These results provide the first evidence for a link between postural alignment and cognitive functioning in healthy older adults. Possible causal relationships are discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
Unknown 90 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 23%
Student > Master 11 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Researcher 7 8%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 26 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 18 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Sports and Recreations 5 5%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 31 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2022.
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#1,516,958
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Outputs from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#388
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#27,293
of 319,402 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
#8
of 87 outputs
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