Acute cocoa flavanols intake improves cerebral hemodynamics while maintaining brain activity and cognitive performance in moderate hypoxia

• Published in: Psychopharmacology Vol. 235; no. 9; pp. 2597 - 2608
• Main Authors: Decroix, L., De Pauw, K., Van Cutsem, J., Pattyn, N., Heyman, E., Meeusen, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.09.2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis; Anoxia; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cerebral circulation; Circulatory system; Cocoa; Cognitive ability; Cognitive tasks; Cortex (motor); Decision making; EEG; Epicatechin; Exposure; Flavanols; Flavonoids; Health aspects; Hemodynamics; Hypoxia; Infrared analysis; Infrared spectra; Infrared spectroscopy; Near infrared radiation; Neurosciences; Optical tracking; Orientation behavior; Original Investigation; Pharmacology/Toxicology; Physiological aspects; Prefrontal cortex; Psychiatry; Task complexity; Visual cortex; Visual tasks; Cocoa flavanol; Cognitive performance; Electroencephalogram; Functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Introduction Acute cocoa flavanols (CF) intake has been suggested to modulate cognitive function and neurovascular coupling (NVC). Whether increased NVC is solely driven by improved vascular responsiveness or also by neuronal activity remains unknown. This study investigated the effects of acute CF...