Main description:

A reference for cognitive gerontologists, medical and health researchers in hospitals and health science centers, and academicians interested in the research of aging, exercise, and cognition. Also a supplemental text for graduate students taking special-topic seminars and for university faculty members who study or teach topics of exercise and psychosocial benefits of exercise.

Contents:

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