Acute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease

dc.contributor.authorSilveira, Carolina R. A.
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Eric A.
dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Quincy J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-21T13:41:55Z
dc.date.available2018-03-21T13:41:55Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-03
dc.descriptionThe final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.01.056 © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.description.abstractDeficits in executive functions are highly prevalent in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although chronic physical exercise has been shown to improve executive functions in PD, evidence of acute exercise effects is limited. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an acute bout of exercise on cognitive processes underlying executive functions in PD. Twenty individuals with PD were assessed in both a Control and an Exercise conditions. In each condition, individuals started performing a simple and a choice reaction time (RT) task. Subsequently, participants were asked to sit on a cycle ergometer (Control) or cycle (Exercise) for 20 min in counterbalanced order. Participants were asked to repeat both reaction time tasks after 15-min rest period in both conditions. While no differences were found in simple RT, participants showed faster choice RT post Exercise as well as Control conditions (p = .012). Participants had slower choice RT for target stimulus compared to non-target stimuli irrespective of time or experimental condition (p < .001). There was no change in accuracy following experimental conditions. Results suggest that individuals with PD may not respond behaviourally to a single bout of exercise. The lack of selective effects of exercise on cognition suggests that practice effects may have influenced previous research. Future studies should assess whether neurophysiological changes might occur after an acute bout of exercise in PD.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.01.056
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/13045
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectAcute exerciseen
dc.subjectCognitionen
dc.subjectParkinson’s diseaseen
dc.subjectReaction timeen
dc.titleAcute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in individuals with Parkinson’s diseaseen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSilveira, C. R. A., Roy, E. A., & Almeida, Q. J. (2018). Acute effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience Letters, 671, 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.01.056en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Applied Health Sciencesen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Kinesiologyen
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
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