Originally Posted by Tupelo3

Nan, I fully agree about the importance of exercise for PwP. I also have been in a number of cognitive studies. My concern is the tests that are used by the studies I have participated in. They are limited and tend to be overused. I have taken all three versions of the MOCA more than 20 times each and can recite the memory portion for each right now without looking. I think in some of these studies the results are greatly influenced by the learning curve. Therefore, I am not surprised when participants do better on these tests in follow-up. What we need to see is that patients who exercise have more and longer lasting improvement, than those who don't exercise. My guess is that properly designed studies will show that.