Aerobic exercise impacts the anterior cingulate cortex in adolescents with subthreshold mood syndromes: a randomized controlled trial study

• Published in: Translational psychiatry Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 155
• Main Authors: Lin, Kangguang, Stubbs, Brendon, Zou, Wenjin, Zheng, Wenjing, Lu, Weicong, Gao, Yanling, Chen, Kun, Wang, Shengli, Liu, Jie, Huang, Yanxiong, Guan, Lijie, Wong, Mabel Ngai Kiu, Wang, Runhua, Lam, Bess Yin-Hung, Xu, Guiyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 18.05.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 59/57; 631/378; 692/53/2423; Aerobics; Behavioral Sciences; Biological Psychology; Clinical trials; Exercise; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurosciences; Pharmacotherapy; Physical fitness; Psychiatry; Teenagers

Aerobic exercise is effective in alleviating mood symptoms while the mechanism is poorly understood. There are limited clinical trials that investigated the effect of exercise on the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a key brain region involved in mood regulations, in adolescents with subthreshold mo...