Friday, February 26, 2010
Theme: Exercise Interventions across Gait and Mental Disorders
- Models: Healthy Aging, Vascular disease, Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Mood/Anxiety
- Common causal pathways of gait and mental dysfunction
- Basic and clinical perspectives
- Effects of physical/cognitive activity on risk of aging and disease
- Effects of physical/cognitive activity on symptoms of aging and disease
- Effects of anxiety, fatigue, mood
- Gaps between clinical practice and real world mobility and function- making clinically meaningful differences
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Theme: Dual Task Training across Gait and Mental Disorders
- Brain Reserve: Cognitive reserve, Gait reserve
- Effects of gait/exercise training on cognitive and psychiatric disorders
- Effects of cognitive training on gait
- Integration of automatic and intentional processes
- Prioritization
- Value for assessment, intervention and clinical trials
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Theme: Preventing Falls in Gait and Mental Disorders
- Preventing falls in the elderly- current evidence
- Inhibitory processes in Postural control
- Risk factors and circumstances resulting in falls
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Fear of Falling