Tools
Tools
Theurot, D, Dugué, B, Douzi, W, Guitet, P, Louis, J and Dupuy, O (2021) Impact of acute partial-body cryostimulation on cognitive performance, cerebral oxygenation, and cardiac autonomic activity. Scientific Reports, 11. ISSN 2045-2322
|
Text
Impact of acute partial-body cryostimulation on cognitive performance, cerebral oxygenation, and cardiac autonomic activity.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (1MB) | Preview |
Abstract
We assessed the effects of a 3-min partial-body cryostimulation (PBC) exposure -where the whole body is exposed to extreme cold, except the head- on cognitive inhibition performance and the possible implications of parasympathetic cardiac control and cerebral oxygenation. In a randomized controlled counterbalanced cross-over design, eighteen healthy young adults (nine males and nine females) completed a cognitive Stroop task before and after one single session of PBC (3-min exposure at -150ºC cold air) and a control condition (3 minutes at room temperature, 20ºC). During the cognitive task, heart rate variability (HRV) and cerebral oxygenation of the prefrontal cortex were measured using heart rate monitoring and near-infrared spectroscopy methods. We also recorded the cerebral oxygenation during the PBC session. Stroop performance after PBC exposure was enhanced (562.0 ± 40.2 ms) compared to pre-PBC (602.0 ± 56.4 ms; P < 0.042) in males only, accompanied by an increase (P < 0.05) in HRV indices of parasympathetic tone, in greater proportion in males compared to females. During PBC, cerebral oxygenation decreased in a similar proportion in males and females but the cerebral extraction (deoxyhemoglobin: ΔHHb) remained higher after exposure in males, only. These data demonstrate that a single PBC session enhances the cognitive inhibition performance on a Stroop task in males, partly mediated by a greater parasympathetic cardiac control and greater cerebral oxygenation. The effects of PBC on cognitive function seem different in females, possibly explained by a different sensitivity to cold stimulation.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Stroop task; inhibition task; heart rate variability; cryostimulation; near-infrared spectroscopy; cerebral oxygenation |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2021 12:32 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 05:43 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1038/s41598-021-87089-y |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14677 |
 |
View Item |