Do various exercise interventions improve cognitive function in patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia?
Resistance exercise and multicomponent exercise appear to be the optimal exercise interventions for slowing cognitive decline in dementia and MCI, respectively.
Resistance exercise has the highest probability of being the optimal exercise type for slowing cognitive decline in patients with cognitive dysfunction, especially in patients with dementia. Multicomponent exercise tends to be most effective in protecting global cognition and executive function in patients with MCI.
Huang et al. (Sun,) studied this question.