Neurorehabilitation, Physical Activity & the Brain: The Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Performance

Dear Colleagues,

Rehabilitation, activity and exercise have traditionally been linked with physical performance. However, there is a growing body of evidence supporting the cognitive gains that can be achieved with physical exercise. These benefits tend to vary across a continuum of healthy and disordered populations.

Thus, the focus of this Special Issue is to uncover the impact of physical activity on cognitive processes within populations of young and older healthy adults. Equally important are the benefits for cognitive performance that can be achieved with neurorehabilitation in acute neurological populations (such as stroke), as well as the continuum of neurodegenerative disorders under the dementia and Parkinsonism umbrellas.

We invite cutting-edge research which focuses on the biomarkers and prediction of which populations might benefit from physical activity and/or neurorehabilitation; the types of physical activity and neurorehabilitation that enhances aspects of cognitive function; as well as recommendations for outcome measures which are most sensitive to cognitive changes that are ascertained with physical activity and or neurorehabilitation.

Dr. Quincy Almeida
Guest Editor

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• cognition
• memory
• neurorehabilitation
• Parkinson’s
• mild cognitive impairment
• gait
• balance
• physical activity
• navigation
• dementia