Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, found that people who participated in a home-based physical activity program, experienced a modest improvement in their cognitive function (i.e memory , problem solving). However, according to an editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the problem with the study was that although the benefits showed in the tests, "neither patients, family members, nor clinicians could easily detect that level of difference,...
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