ReviewExperimental brain research2024
Aerobic exercise promotes emotion regulation: a narrative review.
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- Working Through Your Emotions: Exercise Repairs the Experience of Positive and Negative Emotions Through Cognitive Emotion Regulation After a Recalled Stressor.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Trial
- Exercise priming to enhance therapeutic bond and behavioral activation in CBT for MDD: a randomized controlled target-engagement trial with remission signal.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Trial
- The effectiveness of physical activity intervention on mobile phone addiction in college students: the chain mediating role of emotion regulation strategies and positive coping style.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Physical Activity and Negative Emotional States Among Female College Students: A Three-Wave Cross-Lagged Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Exercise-induced neuropeptidergic and neurochemical neuroadaptation in stress regulation and emotional disorders.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2026Review
- Habitual Aerobic Exercise Is Associated with Reduced Negative Emotional Elicitation: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- A latent profile analysis of physical activity participation patterns and mental health among university students: the mediating role of emotion regulation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Multiscale Mechanisms of Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity: From Molecular Pathways to Network Dynamics and Behavioral Adaptation.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Do physical activity and sedentary behaviour have an effect on burnout risk in Flemish secondary school teachers? A prospective study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Physical activity, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and suicidal ideation in adolescents: a variable-centered and person-centered approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Chronic dizziness: neuro-sensitization and psycho-sensitization.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2026Review
- A mechanism-driven real-time respiratory modulation framework for rapid affective regulation via prefrontal EEG computational phenotyping.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bridging reward and resilience: the endocannabinoid system as a unifying mechanism in exercise-induced protection against major depressive disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Dynamic interactions between physical activity, exercise adherence, and adverse psychological states in Chinese older adults: a cross-lagged network analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Tactile regulation with pocket-sized robots: reducing movement and heart rate in children through hand-held interaction.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2026Article
- Neural evidence for exercise-driven emotional stability via cognitive regulation mechanisms.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The influence of social physical exercise on the health of middle-aged and older adults: a mediating model of health behavior change mechanisms moderated by age.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and cyber aggression among college students: the mediating role of psychological resilience and the moderating role of physical exercise.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Effects of Physical Exercise on Adolescents' School Adjustment and Path Analysis-Evidence from the China Education Panel Survey.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Social Challenges on University Campuses: How Does Physical Activity Affect Social Anxiety? The Dual Roles of Loneliness and Gender.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Aerobic exercise improves the three stages of emotion regulation: perception, valuation and action. It reduces the perception of negative emotions, encourages individuals to reinterpret emotional situations in a positive or non-emotional manner, and enhances control over emotion expression behaviours. These effects are generated via increased prefrontal cortex activation, the strengthening of functional connections between the amygdala and several other brain regions, and the enhancement of the plasticity of key emotion regulation pathways and nodes, such as the uncinate fasciculus. The effect of aerobic exercise on emotion regulation is influenced by the exercise intensity and duration, and by individuals' exercise experience. Future research may explore the key neural basis of aerobic exercise's promotion of emotion regulation.
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