Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Functioning
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Exercise and Health-Related Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 175
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise physiology; stress hormones; anxiety; depression; myokines; neuroplasticity
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: high-intensity exercise; cognitive functioning; executive functions; neurotrophic factors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mental health is considered a priority area of interest in public health. It is becoming increasingly accepted that several mental health issues have strong associations with cognitive impairment. It is therefore important to seek targeted therapeutic strategies to counteract their impact. Recently, there has been an increase in research interest in the effects of physical activity and exercise on mental health and cognition. Despite this, the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms that could explain the benefits of exercise on brain functioning are still not well known. This Special Issue is focused on the acute and chronic effects of exercise on cognitive functioning, with special emphasis on executive functions (i.e., inhibitory control, working memory, and mental flexibility). Moreover, the muscle–brain crosstalk and the role of several myokines involved in structural and functional neuroplasticity mechanisms are also topics of interest in this Special Issue. Furthermore, this Special Issue aims to examine exercise as a stimulus in settings such as educational contexts (from schools to colleges) and workplaces, where it seems to be a feasible strategy to increase both academic achievement and workers’ performance. Finally, this issue aims to gather results from innovative and disruptive clinical research in which exercise-based interventions alone or combined with other treatments have been applied to patients with different cognitive impairments.
Prof. Dr. Luis Carrasco Páez
Dr. Inmaculada C. Martínez-Díaz
Dr. Rizki Mulyawan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- physical activity
- exercise
- cognitive functioning
- executive functions
- muscle–brain crosstalk
- myokines
- neuroplasticity
- academic achievement
- cognitive impairment
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