Kinesiology 3371A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cerebrovascular Disease, Lingual Gyrus, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
4 Jan 2020
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Type 2 diabetes is a huge risk factor (double the risk) of dementia. Neurocognitive decline= de cits in memory (tends to go rst), atrophy, attention etc. Happens in diabetics because of the loss of neurons and cerebral vascular disease (issues with blood ow) Over 7 blood glucose= diabetes, 6. 1-7= pre-diabetics, and <6. 1= healthy. Around 7 mmol/l atrophy begins, brain volume reduces, and memory is impacted but processing speed, verbal uency, and attention is not effected yet. Cross sectional data shows that diabetics who are more active have better cognitive outcomes. There are very limited intervention studies on diabetics and pre-diabetics. Resistance training is more applicable to older adults who may have limitations preventing them from performing aerobic exercise. Lingual gyrus (encoding memory), the frontal pole (encoding and retrieval), and occipital pisiform gyrus (retrieval) were looked at for functional training following resistance training.
