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2024, Volume 11, Issue 4: 421-438. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2024025
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Effects of an intervention combining physical activity and components of Amygdala and Insula Retraining (AIR) on sleep and working memory among older male adults

  • 1.
    Department of Motor Behavior, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
  • 2.
    Department of Exercise Physiology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  • 3.
    Department of Sport Management, University of Eyvanakey, Tehran, Iran
  • 4.
    AB Research Consulting, New York, U.S
  • 5.
    Department of Physical Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
  • 6.
    Keizo Asami Institute, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
  • 7.
    Department of Physical Education and Special Motricity, Faculty of Physical Education and Mountain Sports, Transilvania University of Brasov, 500068 Brasov, Romania
  • Received: 23 June 2024 Revised: 28 September 2024 Accepted: 09 October 2024 Published: 12 October 2024

  • Background 

    Older individuals are at a particular risk of sleep disorders, a loss of cognitive and emotional control, and a poor quality of life. Pharmaceutical therapy for these conditions is commonplace but has not been particularly effective, and relatively little research exists for their treatment using non-pharmacological approaches. The effectiveness of Physical Activity plus selected components of Amygdala and Insula Retraining (PAAIR) was tested to improve sleep quality, depression, working memory, and emotion regulation among older males.

    Methods 

    This was a parallel, randomized control trial. The study was conducted in-person among 40 older Iranian men (Mage: 65.78, SD = 2.41). The participants were randomly assigned with equal allocation to either the PAAIR or a control condition. Both interventions were conducted in-person over 12 weeks. The participants met twice weekly for 45-minute sessions at a local elderly training and rehabilitation center. All participants completed measurements for sleep quality, depressive symptoms, working memory, and emotion regulation at baseline, 12 weeks (immediately after the intervention), and 8 weeks later.

    Results 

    Among the 36 individuals who finished the study, their sleep quality, working memory, and emotion regulation improved, and their depressive symptoms were reduced from baseline to 12 weeks (post-intervention) and 8 weeks later; these effects were seen even more so for the PAAIR group compared to the control group, with large to extremely large effect sizes.

    Conclusion 

    The findings suggest that PAAIR has the potential to enhance sleep quality, cognitive function, and emotion regulation and reduce depressive symptoms among older men, thus contributing to their quality of life and mental health.

    Citation: Monireh Asadi Ghaleni, Forouzan Fattahi Masrour, Narjes Saryar, Alexandra J. Bratty, Ebrahim Norouzi, Matheus Santos de Sousa Fernandes, Georgian Badicu. Effects of an intervention combining physical activity and components of Amygdala and Insula Retraining (AIR) on sleep and working memory among older male adults[J]. AIMS Neuroscience, 2024, 11(4): 421-438. doi: 10.3934/Neuroscience.2024025

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  • Background 

    Older individuals are at a particular risk of sleep disorders, a loss of cognitive and emotional control, and a poor quality of life. Pharmaceutical therapy for these conditions is commonplace but has not been particularly effective, and relatively little research exists for their treatment using non-pharmacological approaches. The effectiveness of Physical Activity plus selected components of Amygdala and Insula Retraining (PAAIR) was tested to improve sleep quality, depression, working memory, and emotion regulation among older males.

    Methods 

    This was a parallel, randomized control trial. The study was conducted in-person among 40 older Iranian men (Mage: 65.78, SD = 2.41). The participants were randomly assigned with equal allocation to either the PAAIR or a control condition. Both interventions were conducted in-person over 12 weeks. The participants met twice weekly for 45-minute sessions at a local elderly training and rehabilitation center. All participants completed measurements for sleep quality, depressive symptoms, working memory, and emotion regulation at baseline, 12 weeks (immediately after the intervention), and 8 weeks later.

    Results 

    Among the 36 individuals who finished the study, their sleep quality, working memory, and emotion regulation improved, and their depressive symptoms were reduced from baseline to 12 weeks (post-intervention) and 8 weeks later; these effects were seen even more so for the PAAIR group compared to the control group, with large to extremely large effect sizes.

    Conclusion 

    The findings suggest that PAAIR has the potential to enhance sleep quality, cognitive function, and emotion regulation and reduce depressive symptoms among older men, thus contributing to their quality of life and mental health.



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    Acknowledgments


    We wish to express our gratitude to Yazdan Norouzi (Azad University of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran) for assist in data collection.

    Conflicts of interest


    Alexandra J. Bratty is the CEO of AB Research Consulting, which provides consulting services to The Gupta Program, the commercial version of the Amygdala and Insula Retraining (AIR) intervention. Her company was compensated for this work by independent donors. She was not involved in data collection for this study.

    Compliance with ethical standards


    This work was done by maintaining all ethical guidelines and standard parameter.

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