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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018

Mental Fatigue Impairs Endurance Performance: A Physiological Explanation.

Kristy Martin, Romain Meeusen, Kevin G Thompson, Richard Keegan, Ben Rattray

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In one paragraph

Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06952283 (Effects of Music Intervention on Golf-Specific Skill Performance of Chinese Golfers Under Mental Fatigue), which is not on this map. Cited by 91 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06952283 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Effects of Music Intervention on Golf-Specific Skill Performance of Chinese Golfers Under Mental Fatigue

TypeinterventionalSponsorPan XiaoyangRan2025 to 2025Enrolled60ConditionsMental FatigueArmsInducing mental fatigue, Music intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Association of Physical and Emotional Parameters with Performance of Firefighters: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
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  20. Investigating the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Resistance Exercise Performance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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31 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kristy MartinUniversity of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Canberra, ACT, Australia. kristy.martin@canberra.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0953-7595
Romain MeeusenVrije Universiteit Brussel Human Performance Research Group, Brussels, Belgium.
Kevin G ThompsonUniversity of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Richard KeeganUniversity of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Ben RattrayUniversity of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental fatigue reflects a change in psychobiological state, caused by prolonged periods of demanding cognitive activity. It has been well documented that mental fatigue impairs cognitive performance; however, more recently, it has been demonstrated that endurance performance is also impaired by mental fatigue. The mechanism behind the detrimental effect of mental fatigue on endurance performance is poorly understood. Variables traditionally believed to limit endurance performance, such as heart rate, lactate accumulation and neuromuscular function, are unaffected by mental fatigue. Rather, it has been suggested that the negative impact of mental fatigue on endurance performance is primarily mediated by the greater perception of effort experienced by mentally fatigued participants. Pageaux et al. (Eur J Appl Physiol 114(5):1095-1105, 2014) first proposed that prolonged performance of a demanding cognitive task increases cerebral adenosine accumulation and that this accumulation may lead to the higher perception of effort experienced during subsequent endurance performance. This theoretical review looks at evidence to support and extend this hypothesis.

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Mental FatiguePhysical EndurancePhysical ExertionHeart RateHumans

Identifiers

PMID29923147

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