Our group recently conducted a randomized clinical trial in US dwelling older adults that indicated increasing cardiorespiratory fitness (measured by VO2 peak on treadmill) resulted in better visuospatial cognition ...

Objective: Central Americans have a cardiovascular disease (CVD) health advantage, as they are half as likely to carry CVD as European Americans, despite having an equivalent degree of vascular risk factors (VRFs). We ...

El presente taller propone introducir, destacar y visibilizar los usos potenciales del SL en áreas de aplicación psicológica y educativa. Esto se realizará utilizando principalmente un programa de SL denominado Blender, ...

Introduction. Aging decreases aerobic capacity as determined by direct maximal tests (Hassel et al. 2015). There are indirect methods to assess aerobic capacity such as the 6-min walking test (6MWT). Some equations to ...

Se exponen evidencias de validez y confiabilidad del Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) en Costa Rica. En el Estudio 1 se adaptó el EAT-40 al léxico costarricense y se aplicó a 594 adolescentes. Se obtuvo un alfa de Cronbach ...

Costa Rica has one of the highest life expectancies in America, even higher than the United States. Studies addressing health and fitness in Latin American urban and rural older adults are scarce. PURPOSE: The purpose ...

Hoy en día, en el mundo entero, y como una consecuencia de la inserción de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la sociedad, hay una tendencia cada vez mayor por intentar introducir la tecnología ...

Objective There is evidence that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) protects against age-related declines in processing speed (PS), but studies investigating older adults living in low and middle-income countries are lacking. ...