Why the study?
Previous studies mostly used subjective measures to examine exercise effects on mood, leaving the associated neuronal changes in emotional face-processing networks in response to acute exercise uncharacterized by fMRI.
Does acute low- and high-intensity exercise modulate emotional face-processing brain regions in male athletes?
Population
25 male athletes (complete data sets in 21 participants)
Comparison
Low-intensity vs high-intensity 30 min exercise interventions
Design
fMRI-based face-matching study
Authors
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Acute exercise may boost positive affect and dampen fear processing in athletes; hypothesis-generating for clinical translation or sustained effects.
Does acute low- and high-intensity exercise modulate emotional face-processing brain regions in male athletes?
Acute strenuous exercise interferes with emotional face-processing brain regions in an emotion type-specific manner, providing in vivo evidence for exercise-induced neuronal changes.
Schmitt et al. (2019) studied this question.