Exercise and Its Mediating Effects on Cognition examines how physical activity can indirectly affect cognitive function by influencing mediators—such as sleep quality, nutrition, disease states, anxiety, and depression that affect physical and mental resources for cognition. This volume also identifies and studies key sources of individual variations in exercise and cognitive processes. Seventeen internationally recognized experts in exercise, cognition, neurobiological processes, and aging provide a review of the state of knowledge and, where appropriate, provide practical applications of research findings. The book’s review of research will update and expand current thinking on pertinent issues regarding the relationship between exercise and cognition.
Chapter 1. Using Resources and Reserves in an Exercise - Cognition Model
Waneen Spirduso, EdD, Leonard Poon, PhD, and Wojtek Chodzo-Zajko, PhD
Chapter 2. Interrelationships of Exercise, Mediator Variables, and Cognition
Jennifer Etnier, PhD
Chapter 3. Exercise, Depression, and Cognition
John Bartholomew, PhD, and Joseph T. Ciccolo, MA
Chapter 4. Exercise, Stress Effects, and Cognition
Nicole Berchtold, PhD
Chapter 5. Exercise, Self-Efficacy, and Cognition
Edward McAuley, PhD, and Steriani Elavsky, MS
Chapter 6. Cognitive Energetics and Aging
Phillip Tomporowski, PhD
Chapter 7. Exercise and Mental Resources: Methodological Problems
Timothy Salthouse, PhD
Chapter 8. Diet, Motor Behavior, and Cognition
Jim Joseph, PhD
Chapter 9. Exercise and Sleep Quality
Martita Lopez, PhD
Chapter 10. Exercise, Sleep and Cognition: Interactions in Aging
Michael Vitello, PhD
Chapter 11. Exercise, Hypertension, and Cognition
Hiro Tanaka, PhD, and Miriam Cortez-Cooper, PhD
Chapter 12. Exercise, Diabetes, and Cognition
Don Royall, MD
Chapter 13. Exercise, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Cognition
Charles Emery, PhD
Chapter 14. Conclusions and Future Research Directions
Waneen Spirduso, EdD, Leonard Poon, PhD, and Wojtek Chodzo-Zajko, PhD
Waneen W. Spirduso, EdD, is the Oscar and Anne Mauzy Regents Professor in the department of kinesiology and health education at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She was chair of the UT department of kinesiology and health education for 14 years and served as interim dean of the College of Education for 2-1/2 years. Since 1975 her academic interests, research, and presentations have focused on issues central to gerontology and kinesiology, and her research programs have been sponsored by four of the National Institutes of Health and several local foundations.
Leonard W. Poon, PhD, is a professor of public health and psychology, chair of the faculty of gerontology, and director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Georgia at Athens. He received his PhD in experimental psychology in 1972 from the University of Denver and has studied aging and cognition for over 30 years with specific emphasis on environmental and lifestyle influences that enhance cognitive functioning in older adults.
Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, PhD, serves as both department head and professor of kinesiology and community health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served on the World Health Organization Scientific Advisory Committee, which issued guidelines for physical activity in older adults. Chodzko-Zajko chairs the Active Aging Partnership, a national coalition in the area of healthy aging linking the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Institute of Aging, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Geriatrics Society, the National Council on the Aging, the American Association of Retired Persons, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.