Exploring the impact of acute physical activity on creative thinking: a comprehensive narrative review with a focus on activity type and intensity DOI Creative Commons
Chong Chen

Discover Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(1)

Published: Jan. 11, 2024

Abstract Recent studies have increasingly focused on the cognitive benefits of acute physical activity, particularly in enhancing creative thinking. Despite extensive research linking activity and cognition, significant gaps remain understanding how specific types intensities activities influence this relationship. This review aims to synthesize current findings, highlighting notable impact various One key finding is enhancement divergent thinking, a critical component creativity, through like walking at natural pace. Moderate intensity aerobic exercise dance, though based limited studies, also appear facilitate Additionally, vigorous may enhance secondary aspects including quantity flexibility idea generation. However, identifies multiple gaps, especially effects resistance structured moderate pointing an area ripe for future exploration. Recognizing importance it becomes essential understand different activities, their levels, affect cognition. knowledge can guide both academic practical applications, offering valuable insights targeted strategies aimed function creativity real-world settings such as classrooms workplaces. The underscores need more comprehensive exploration topic, which could implications fields psychology.

Language: Английский

Move Your Body, Boost Your Brain: The Positive Impact of Physical Activity on Cognition across All Age Groups DOI Creative Commons
Felice Festa,

Silvia Medori,

Monica Macrì

et al.

Biomedicines, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11(6), P. 1765 - 1765

Published: June 20, 2023

While the physical improvements from exercise have been well documented over years, impact of activity on mental health has recently become an object interest. Physical improves cognition, particularly attention, memory, and executive functions. However, mechanisms underlying these effects yet to be fully understood. Consequently, we conducted a narrative literature review concerning association between acute chronic cognition provide overview exercise-induced benefits during lifetime person. Most previous papers mainly reported exercise-related greater expression neurotransmitter neurotrophic factors. Recently, structural functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques allowed for detection increased grey matter volumes specific brain regions substantial modifications in default mode, frontoparietal, dorsal attention networks following exercise. Here, highlighted that induced significant changes activation cognitive performance every age group could counteract psychological disorders neural decline. No particular gained better exercise, type generate selected target subject. Further research should develop appropriate intervention programs comorbidity achieve most outcomes.

Language: Английский

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Aerobic exercise in the treatment of PTSD: An examination of preclinical and clinical laboratory findings, potential mechanisms, clinical implications, and future directions DOI
Kevin M. Crombie,

Tom G. Adams,

Joseph E. Dunsmoor

et al.

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 94, P. 102680 - 102680

Published: Feb. 6, 2023

Language: Английский

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Effects of reducing sedentary behaviour by increasing physical activity, on cognitive function, brain function and structure across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analysis DOI
Natan Feter, Tomasz S. Ligeza,

Neha Bashir

et al.

British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 58(21), P. 1295 - 1306

Published: Aug. 28, 2024

To examine the acute and chronic effects of reducing prolonged sedentary time (ST) with physical activity (PA) on cognitive brain health. Systematic review meta-analysis. PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Web Science, ProQuest Dissertation Theses. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published from inception to 17 June 2024, healthy participants without impairment or neurological conditions that affect functioning, aged ≥4 years, testing ST and/or by reallocating PA function, structure. We included 25 RCTs (n=1289) investigating (21 studies) (4 function (acute: n=20, chronic: n=4) n=7, n=1); there were no studies Acutely interrupting continuous either multiple a single bout improved measured 3 hours three consecutive days based 91 effect sizes (g=0.17, 95% CI: 0.05 0.29, p=0.005, I 2=45.5%). When comparing versus bouts, only bouts yielded positive 72 (g=0.20, 0.06 0.35, p=0.006; 2=48.8%). Chronic reported null findings (n=4), some evidence neural efficiency hippocampus (n=1). Interrupting acutely improves function. The remains inconclusive. PROSPERO CRD42020200998.

Language: Английский

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Enhancing muscle and brain resilience: The role of prehabilitative exercise in mitigating disuse effects DOI Open Access
Casper Soendenbroe, Carl‐Johan Boraxbekk, Abigail L. Mackey

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The Journal of Physiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 6, 2025

Abstract Short‐term disuse leads to rapid declines in muscle mass and strength. These are driven by changes at all levels of the neuromuscular system; brain, spinal cord skeletal muscle. In addition neural input from central peripheral nervous systems muscle, molecular factors originating can be transported system. interactions highlight interconnected nature system during exercise disuse, form basis for this review. Although it is well known that physical activity confers a myriad health benefits, recent interest targeted before periods or immobility, termed prehabilitation, has emerged. Clinical studies within multiple medical specialities suggest positive effects prehabilitative on preserving function, reducing adverse outcomes shortening length hospital stay. Yet, available few heterogeneous, underlying protective mechanisms remain elusive. review, we examine ramifications across explore how prehabilitation may counteract these effects. We summarize into three primary categories: (1) enhancing pre‐disuse capacity; (2) establishing memory; (3) fostering structural adaptations both brain. image

Language: Английский

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Enhanced cardiac vagal activity and mood after low-dose hypoxic gas inhalation in healthy young adults DOI Creative Commons
Dongmin Lee, Yudai Yamazaki, Ryuta Kuwamizu

et al.

The Journal of Physiological Sciences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 75(1), P. 100002 - 100002

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Leptin in hippocampus mediates benefits of mild exercise by an antioxidant on neurogenesis and memory DOI Open Access
Jang Soo Yook, Randeep Rakwal, Junko Shibato

et al.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 116(22), P. 10988 - 10993

Published: May 13, 2019

Significance Leptin (LEP), produced and acting in the hippocampus, mediates enhancement by mild exercise (ME) of hippocampus-related memory neurogenesis, which are further increased an antioxidant carotenoid, astaxanthin (AX). Both facilitated administration ME or AX alone. The up-regulation LEP gene protein expression hippocampus is elevated when combined with AX. Consistently, interventions hippocampal protein. In LEP-deficient ob/ob mice, replacement brain restored ability ME+AX to enhance function. Thus, a lifestyle intervention based on ME, including yoga tai chi, specific dietary supplements that include antioxidants may together improve cognition possibly retard cognitive decline humans.

Language: Английский

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How does the skeletal muscle communicate with the brain in health and disease? DOI
Alinny Rosendo Isaac, Ricardo A. S. Lima-Filho, Mychael V. Lourenco

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Neuropharmacology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 197, P. 108744 - 108744

Published: Aug. 5, 2021

Language: Английский

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Active video games in fully immersive virtual reality elicit moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and improve cognitive performance in sedentary college students DOI Creative Commons
Caio Victor Sousa, Jungyun Hwang,

Romina Cabrera-Perez

et al.

Journal of sport and health science/Journal of Sport and Health Science, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 11(2), P. 164 - 171

Published: May 16, 2021

Active video games are a new method for increasing physical activity (PA). Fully immersive virtual reality (VR) is hardware device on which an active game can run. (video in) VR (AVR), might increase immersion, engagement, and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), thereby yielding greater exercise-related benefits, e.g., cognitive performance. We examined the induction of MVPA via AVR sedentary (SVR) as well effects play performance, was monitored using 2 different methods. Each 29 college students attended three 20-min laboratory sessions (AVR, SVR, or control) in randomized order; during control session, they sat quietly doing nothing. A fully headset used sessions. computed participants’ hip-worn accelerometers (wGT3x-bt; ActiGraph, Pensacola, FL, USA) heart rate band (Polar H7; Polar, Kempele, Finland). After each participants completed mnemonic similarity test (MST) to measure recognition memory. They also filled out motion sickness questionnaire abbreviated experience questionnaire. The session induced significantly more time spent than did either other regardless monitoring method. elicited questionnaire-assessed sensory imaginative challenge, positive affect SVR. score marginally higher post-AVR it post-SVR session. without significant better borderline performance

Language: Английский

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Virtual reality video game improves high-fidelity memory in older adults DOI Creative Commons

Peter E. Wais,

Melissa Arioli,

Roger Anguera‐Singla

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: Jan. 28, 2021

Abstract Therapeutic interventions have not yet been shown to demonstrate restorative effects for declining long-term memory (LTM) that affects many healthy older adults. We developed a virtual reality (VR) spatial wayfinding game (Labyrinth-VR) as cognitive intervention with the hypothesis it could improve detailed, high-fidelity LTM capability. Spatial navigation tasks used means achieve environmental enrichment via exposure and learning about novel complex information. Engagement has enhance linked vitality of system in brain. In current study, 48 adults (mean age 68.7 ± 6.4 years) average abilities their were randomly assigned 12 h computer play over four weeks either Labyrinth-VR or placebo control arms. Promptly before after each participant’s treatment regimen, outcome measures tested assess mnemonic discrimination other measures. The results showed post-treatment gain capability arm, relative placebo, which reached levels attained by younger another experiment. This finding demonstrates generalization benefits from VR important, untrained, capabilities. These are discussed light relevant research hippocampal-dependent functions.

Language: Английский

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High-intensity Intermittent Training Enhances Spatial Memory and Hippocampal Neurogenesis Associated with BDNF Signaling in Rats DOI
Masahiro Okamoto,

Daisuke Mizuuchi,

Omura Koki

et al.

Cerebral Cortex, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 26, 2021

High-intensity intermittent (or interval) training (HIIT) has started to gain popularity as a time-effective approach providing beneficial effects the brain and peripheral organs. However, it still remains uncertain whether HIIT enhances hippocampal functions in terms of neurogenesis spatial memory due unconsidered protocol for rodents. Here, we established regimen rats with reference human study. Adult male Wistar were assigned randomly Control, moderate-intensity continuous (MICT; 20 m/min, 30 min/day, 5 times/week), (60 10 30-s bouts exercise, interspaced 2.5 min recovery, times/week) groups. The ratios exercise time volume between MICT set 6:1 2:1-4:1, respectively. After 4 weeks training, all-out incremental test was prolonged training. In skeletal muscle, plantaris citrate synthase activity significantly increased only group. Simultaneously, both led enhanced adult (AHN) well protein levels brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling. Collectively, suggest that could be time-efficient is associated BDNF

Language: Английский

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