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Are there specific sections of the MoCA which showed less change in patients in the exercise group?

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Neurology · Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

We did not look into specific sections of the MoCA to test whether exercise influences certain cognitive domains more than others. However, with the use of a computerized behavioral task, we were able to show that patients who exercised became better at exerting control over their behavior. Specific...

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Neurology · Wake Forest School of Medicine

In this article, MoCA was not used as an outcome measure. They used a surrogate marker of oculomotor function which is supposed to be indicative of executive function. Based on this marker, authors felt executive function improved in the aerobic activity group.

As per the article, a previous study c...

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