Numerous studies have shown that aerobic exercise can improve cognition in seniors, but a small new study finds that vigorous workouts boost thinking skills in younger adults as well.
After a six-month aerobic regimen, adults aged 20 to 67 showed improvements in executive function—the cognitive processes important for reasoning, planning, and problem-solving—and expanded gray matter in the brain region central to those functions.A comparison group that did only stretching and toning during the same period did not see the same benefits, the study team reports in Neurology.
