About the Authors

Deborah E. Barnes

Deborah.barnes@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wolf Mehling

Affiliations Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eveline Wu

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Matthew Beristianos

Affiliations Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, United States of America, California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kristine Yaffe

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Karyn Skultety

Affiliation Institute on Aging, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Margaret A. Chesney

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DEB WM EW KY MAC. Performed the experiments: EW MB. Analyzed the data: DEB MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS. Developed the initial exercise protocol: DEB WM EW. Contributed to interpretation of study findings: DEB WM EW MB KY KS MAC. Provided substantive comments on manuscript revisions: WM EW MB KY KS MAC. Wrote the manuscript: DEB. Approved the final manuscript: DEB WM EW MB KY KS MAC.