ArticleBiological psychology2022
Associations between aerobic exercise and dopamine-related reward-processing: Informing a model of human exercise engagement.
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Abstract
Endurance or aerobic exercise has many physical and mental health benefits, but less is known about the specific impact that cardiovascular activity may have on dopamine-associated brain circuits involved in reward processing and mood regulation in humans. Understanding such effects will help to explain individual differences in both exercise uptake and maintenance. This study evaluated neural response to a classical taste-conditioning reward prediction error task with the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging, along with data on self-reported aerobic exercise among healthy young adult females (N = 111). Results indicated positive associations between reported aerobic exercise and regional brain response that remained significant after multiple comparison correction for the right medial orbital frontal cortex response to unexpected sucrose receipt (r = 0.315, p = .0008). The medial orbitofrontal cortex is implicated in reward and outcome value computation and the results suggest that aerobic exercise may strengthen this circuitry, or reciprocally, higher orbitofrontal cortical activity may reinforce exercise behavior. The findings aid in developing a model of how exercise engagement can modify reward-circuit function and could be used therapeutically in conditions associated with altered brain salience response.
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