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NEUROREPORT
Volume 25, Issue 16, Pages 1320-1325Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000266
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exercise; near-infrared spectroscopy; oxygenation; prefrontal cortex
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- US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center (NSRDEC, Natick, Massachusetts, USA) [W911QY13C0012]
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Both acute and chronic exercise is consistently associated with a number of benefits to physical and mental health, including cardiovascular function, body weight, mood, and cognition. Near-infrared spectroscopy is an ideal method to measure changes in oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin (O(2)Hb and dHb) levels in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during exercise, to better understand the locus of such changes in affective and cognitive processes. The present study tracked time-dependent changes in O(2)Hb and dHb levels in the PFC as a function of parametrically manipulated target exercise intensity. Near-infrared spectroscopy was conducted as regular exercisers completed a 30-min bout of exercise with one of three target intensities: 52% (low condition), 68% (moderate condition), or 84% (high condition) of age-adjusted maximum heart rate. Heart rate data confirmed that the participants reached their goal intensities immediately, after 10 min, or after 20 min, respectively. Data showed that O(2)Hb and dHb levels in the PFC increased as a function of both exercise load and duration. An 84%> 68%> 52% difference was evident after 18 min of cycling for O(2)Hb and after 23 min of cycling for dHb. The present results add to the growing body of literature showing that at submaximal levels, increasing exercise intensities reliably promote prefrontal cerebral oxygenation. (c) 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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