title: Can Tai chi enhance cognitive vitality? A preliminary study of cognitive executive control in older adults after A Tai chi intervention.
abstract: We explored tasks of cognitive and physical performance in 20 older adult subjects after a 10 week Tai chi program in older adults using a pre-to-post test design. Improvement post intervention was seen in two cognitive measures of executive function and several physical performance measures. Preliminary findings in this non-controlled study suggest the possibility of beneficial effects of Tai chi on cognitive executive function in older adults and support the need to pursue this hypothesis in a randomized controlled trial.
authors.affiliation: margaret.matthews@palmettohealth.org
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Matthews
authors.forename: Harriet G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Williams