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Trial reportScientific reports2019

Effects of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Response Inhibition in Adult Patients with ADHD.

A Mehren, J Özyurt, C M Thiel, M Brandes, A P Lam, A Philipsen

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

A MehrenBiological Psychology Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. aylin.mehren@uni-oldenburg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-9281
J ÖzyurtBiological Psychology Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
C M ThielBiological Psychology Lab, Department of Psychology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
M BrandesLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS GmbH, Department of Prevention and Evaluation, Unit Applied Health Intervention Research, Bremen, Germany.
A P LamDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
A PhilipsenDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · DEUniversity of Bonn · DELeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies suggest beneficial effects of aerobic exercise on executive functions, which are a core deficit in ADHD. The aim of the present fMRI study was to investigate acute effects of aerobic exercise on inhibitory control and related brain activation in adult patients with ADHD. 23 patients and 23 matched healthy controls performed on a Go/No-go task in an MRI scanner, following both, an exercise condition involving 30 min of cycling at moderate intensity, and a control condition. ADHD patients compared to healthy controls showed increased brain activation during successful inhibition in the exercise compared to the control condition in parietal, temporal, and occipital regions. Exercise did not improve behavioral performance in either group, but in ADHD patients, exercise-related increases in brain activation and behavioral task performance (i.e., correct inhibition rate) negatively correlated with correct inhibition rate in the control condition. Thus, patients with worse inhibition performance showed stronger exercise-related enhancements, indicating that the lack of improvements on the behavioral level for the whole patient group could be due to ceiling effects. Our findings might be an important step in understanding the neural basis of exercise effects and could, in the long term, help in developing alternative treatment approaches for ADHD.

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Attention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityBrainExerciseInhibition, PsychologicalMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdultFemaleHumansMale

Identifiers

PMID31882652
PMCPMC6934617
OpenAlexW2998635389

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