{"id":5642,"date":"2015-01-05T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2015-01-05T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:00:12","slug":"cardio-may-help-boost-memory-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/05\/cardio-may-help-boost-memory-in-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardio May Help Boost Memory in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/05\/cardio-may-help-boost-memory-in-older-adults\/scott-hayes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/Scott.Hayes_.jpeg\" alt=\"Scott.Hayes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5671\" \/><\/a>Boston Magazine<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/display\/152691\">Scott Hayes<\/a>, PhD, psychiatry<\/h4>\n<p>Some people go for a run or hop on the elliptical in order to \u201cclear their head.\u201d Now, a new study by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers found that these activities may actually \u201cfill your head\u201d instead. That\u2019s because cardio and memory were found to be related when it comes to older adults.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOur findings that CRF may mitigate age-related cognitive decline is appealing for a variety of reasons, including that aerobic activities to enhance CRF are inexpensive, accessible, and could potentially improve quality of life by delaying cognitive decline and prolonging independent function,\u201d says the study\u2019s corresponding author Scott Hayes, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the associate director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/health\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/cardio-may-help-boost-memory-older-adults\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Magazine Scott Hayes, PhD, psychiatry Some people go for a run or hop on the elliptical in order to \u201cclear their head.\u201d Now, a new study by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers found that these activities may actually \u201cfill your head\u201d instead. That\u2019s because cardio and memory were found to be related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}