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Trial reportEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2019

Effects of physical activity on cognitive performance: a controlled clinical study in depressive patients.

V Buschert, D Prochazka, H Bartl, J Diemer, B Malchow, P Zwanzger, A Brunnauer

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Trial report in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

V BuschertDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany.
D ProchazkaDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany.
H BartlDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany.
J DiemerDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany.
B MalchowDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.
P ZwanzgerDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany.
A BrunnauerDepartment of Neuropsychology, kbo-Inn-Salzach-Klinikum, Psychiatric Hospital, Gabersee 13, 83512, Wasserburg am Inn, Germany. alexander.brunnauer@kbo.de.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical activity is a common adjunctive therapy in psychiatric and psychosomatic hospitals. In the present study, we assessed the effects of an exercise program, integrated into routine inpatient treatment, on cognitive performance and subjective severity of depression in a sample of patients suffering from major depression. We randomized n = 38 patients with unipolar depression to either physical exercise (n = 18) or occupational therapy as an active control treatment (n = 20). Both treatments were delivered in group format over a period of 3-4 weeks. Data indicate that there were significant improvements of cognitive functions and depressive symptoms in both groups, with specific treatment effects in reaction time and in short-term verbal memory favoring the physical activity group. In conclusion, we found physical exercise to be a feasible, easy-to-implement add-on therapy for depressive patients with promising effects on cognitive performance. However, these results need to be replicated in larger samples with an extended follow-up.

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AdultCognitionDepressionDepressive DisorderExerciseExercise TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermMiddle AgedNeuropsychological TestsReaction TimeCognitionDepressionEndurance trainingPhysical activityPhysical exerciseTreatment

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PMID29951850

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