ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Physiological and Cognitive Functions Following a Discrete Session of Competitive Esports Gaming.
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- Effects of nutritional interventions on competitive performance and dose‒response relationships among esports players of different skill levels: a systematic review and three-level meta-analysis.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of Electronic Sports on Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Study.Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2026Trial
- Combined Effect of HF-rTMS and Whole-Body Vibration Exercise on Cognitive Efficiency in Esports Players With or Without Sedentary Behaviors: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Mental Health Monitoring in Esports Athletes Using an mHealth App: Requirements Analysis and Usability Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Beyond Performance: Cognitive Overload and Related Cognitive, Psychophysiological, and Performance States in Competitive Esports-A Scoping Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How Long Is Too Long? Effects of Mobile Game Duration on Stress and Cognitive Function by Gender.International journal of exercise science · 2026Article
- Negative problem orientation and social problem solving in esports: indirect role of cognitive flexibility.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Predicting competitive outcomes in professional e-sports from 60-second pre-match voice acoustics using machine learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Differentiating right upper limb movements of esports players who play different game genres.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Changes in heart rate variability induced by E-sports activities.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- Reducing thrombotic risks in video gamers: investigating the benefits of walking and compression sleeves on blood hemodynamics.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024Article
- Synergistic fields: Unveiling the potential win-win relationship between esports performance and traditional sports participation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Esports experts have a wide gaze distribution and short gaze fixation duration: A focus on League of Legends players.PloS one · 2024Article
- Challenging the Portrait of the Unhealthy Gamer-The Fitness and Health Status of Esports Players and Their Peers: Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- The eSports Medicine: Pre-Participation Screening and Injuries Management-An Update.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Sudden gamer death: non-violent death cases linked to playing video games.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Esports for Seniors: Acute Effects of Esports Gaming in the Community on the Emotional State and Heart Rate among Japanese Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Associations Between Esports Participation and Health: A Scoping Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Competitive organized electronic video gaming, termed "esports," has become an international industry. The physiological and cognitive health results of prolonged esport practice and competition have not been adequately studied. The current study examined physiological and cognitive changes after a session of esport gameplay for two types of games, first-person shooter and multiplayer online battle arena games. Increases in systolic blood pressure, increases in speed, and decreases in accuracy and inhibitory processes were found for esport gamers overall. For peak heart rate change, first-person shooter games elicited a larger change than did multiplayer online battle arena games. These results have implications for the management of esport player cognitive and physical health as well as for the optimization of performance in competitive esport tournaments.
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