ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2018
Functional and Structural Plasticity of Brain in Elite Karate Athletes.
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- A systematic review and coordinate-based meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI in athletes from open and closed skills sports.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- The Neural Mechanism of Long-Term Motor Training Affecting Athletes' Decision-Making Function: An Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Differences in Anatomical Structures and Resting-State Brain Networks Between Elite Wrestlers and Handball Athletes.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Martial arts induce quasicritical brain states: a unified, multiscale, and mechanistic theory of brain health optimization.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Gender comparison of perceptual-cognitive learning in young athletes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sparring and the Brain: The Associations between Sparring and Regional Brain Volumes in Professional Mixed Martial Arts Fighters.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Neural efficiency and proficiency adaptation of effective connectivity corresponding to early and advanced skill levels in athletes of racket sports.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Practice makes plasticity: 10-Hz rTMS enhances LTP-like plasticity in musicians and athletes.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- Effects of Functional Phenolics Dietary Supplementation on Athletes' Performance and Recovery: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Altered dynamics of functional connectivity density associated with early and advanced stages of motor training in tennis and table tennis athletes.Brain imaging and behavior · 2021Article
- Altered Brain Functional Connectivity Density in Fast-Ball Sports Athletes With Early Stage of Motor Training.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The structural and functional neural differences between the elite karate athletes and control group have been investigated in the concept of this study. 13 elite karate athletes and age-gender matched 13 volunteers who have not performed regular exercises participated in the study. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to acquire the anatomical and functional maps. T1-weighted anatomical images were segmented to form gray and white matter images. Voxel-based morphometry is used to elucidate the differences between the groups. Moreover, resting state functional measurements had been done, and group independent component analysis was implemented in order to exhibit the resting state networks. Then, second-level general linear models were used to compute the statistical maps. It has been revealed that increased GM volume values of inferior/superior temporal, occipital, premotor cortex, and temporal pole superior were present for the elite athletes. Additionally, WM values were found to be increased in caudate nucleus, hypothalamus, and mammilary region for the elite karate players. Similarly, for the elite karate players, the brain regions involved in the movement planning and visual perception are found to have higher connectivity values. The differences in these findings can be thought to be originated from the advances gained through the several years of training which is required to be an elite karate athlete.
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