Physical Exercise Keeps the Brain Connected: Biking Increases
White Matter Integrity in Patients With Schizophrenia and
Healthy Controls

J 2015

Physical Exercise Keeps the Brain Connected: Biking Increases White Matter Integrity in Patients With Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls

SVÁTKOVÁ, Alena, Rene C. W. MANDL, Thomas W. SCHEEWE, Wiepke CAHN, Rene S. KAHN et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Physical Exercise Keeps the Brain Connected: Biking Increases White Matter Integrity in Patients With Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls

Authors

SVÁTKOVÁ, Alena (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Rene C. W. MANDL (528 Netherlands), Thomas W. SCHEEWE (528 Netherlands), Wiepke CAHN (528 Netherlands), Rene S. KAHN (528 Netherlands) and Hilleke E. HULSHOFF POL (528 Netherlands)

Edition

Schizophrenia Bulletin, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015, 0586-7614

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30000 3. Medical and Health Sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 7.757

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14740/15:00083091

Organization unit

Central European Institute of Technology

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv033

UT WoS

000357891500014

Keywords in English

connectivity; diffusion tensor imaging; fractional anisotropy; longitudinal; physical exercise; schizophrenia

Abstract

V originále

It has been shown that learning a new skill leads to structural changes in the brain. However, it is unclear whether it is the acquisition or continuous practicing of the skill that causes this effect and whether brain connectivity of patients with schizophrenia can benefit from such practice. We examined the effect of 6 months exercise on a stationary bicycle on the brain in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Biking is an endemic skill in the Netherlands and thus offers an ideal situation to disentangle the effects of learning vs practice. The 33 participating patients with schizophrenia and 48 healthy individuals were assigned to either one of two conditions, ie, physical exercise or life-as-usual, balanced for diagnosis. Diffusion tensor imaging brain scans were made prior to and after intervention. We demonstrate that irrespective of diagnosis regular physical exercise of an overlearned skill, such as bicycling, significantly increases the integrity, especially of motor functioning related, white matter fiber tracts whereas life-as-usual leads to a decrease in fiber integrity. Our findings imply that exercise of an overlearned physical skill improves brain connectivity in patients and healthy individuals. This has important implications for understanding the effect of fitness programs on the brain in both healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia. Moreover, the outcome may even apply to the nonphysical realm.

Links

ED1.1.00/02.0068, research and development project

Name: CEITEC - central european institute of technology

Citovat

SVÁTKOVÁ, Alena, Rene C. W. MANDL, Thomas W. SCHEEWE, Wiepke CAHN, Rene S. KAHN and Hilleke E. HULSHOFF POL. Physical Exercise Keeps the Brain Connected: Biking Increases White Matter Integrity in Patients With Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls. Schizophrenia Bulletin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, vol. 41, No 4, p. 869-878. ISSN 0586-7614. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv033.

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SVÁTKOVÁ, Alena, Rene C. W. MANDL, Thomas W. SCHEEWE, Wiepke CAHN, Rene S. KAHN and Hilleke E. HULSHOFF POL. Physical Exercise Keeps the Brain Connected: Biking Increases White Matter Integrity in Patients With Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls. \textit{Schizophrenia Bulletin}. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, vol.~41, No~4, p.~869-878. ISSN~0586-7614. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv033.

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