Editorial: Work and Brain Health Across the Lifespan

Burzynska, Agnieszka Z.

The unique aspects of this clinical trial include: (a) targeting physical activity at workplace (as opposed to interventions increasing exercise during leisure time), (b) unstructured and, therefore, more ecologically-valid workplace physical activity, encouraged by treadmill workstation availability and email reminders, and (c) involvement of overweight-to-obese, middle-aged participants (40–67 years) performing sedentary office work, namely, a population at potentially increased risk of cognitive and brain health decline, yet possibly decades before these declines manifest as cognitive impairment. [...]work-related physical activity and sedentariness have been added as a new dimension of the BOSS model. [...]longitudinal studies are urgently needed to test neural and physiological mechanisms or mediators of work-cognition relationships. [...]as this editorial is written in June 2021, I feel compelled to point out possible effects of the pandemic-related disruptions to our occupational lives on the adult brain health.