The impact of a single session of aerobic exercise on positive emotional reactivity in depression: Insight into individual differences from the late positive potential

The effects of a single aerobic exercise session on mood and neural emotional reactivity in depressed and healthy young adults: A late positive potential study

“…At the same time, the REST protocol did not change LPP in response to either positive or negative pictures. As such, the results for the HC group support increasing evidence on the beneficial effect of exercise on emotional neural reactivity (Brush et al, 2020(Brush et al, , 2021Ligeza et al, 2020;Schmitt et al, 2019;Tartar et al, 2018).…”

“…In previous research, this effect manifested as an increase in positive reactivity (Brush et al, 2020(Brush et al, , 2021, a decrease in negative reactivity (Schmitt et al, 2019;Tartar et al, 2018), or both (Ligeza et al, 2020). However, more evidence suggests that exercise is predominantly associated with emotional responsiveness by increasing positive reactivity rather than reducing negative reactivity.…”

“…A control condition seems essential to distinguish the effects of exercise from other factors that could vary between pre-and post-test measures (e.g., repeated exposure to emotional pictures). Finally, similarly to Brush et al (2020) but differently from Brush et al (2021), assessing emotional responsiveness to both positive and negative pictures could shed more light on the nature of the influence of exercise on emotional responsiveness.…”

“…The late positive potential (LPP) was used as a measure of emotional reactivity to the presented pictures. Based on previous studies on the effects of exercise on emotional reactivity in depressed participants (Brush et al, 2020(Brush et al, , 2021, we a priori defined LPP as the mean voltage at the Pz electrode within the 400-1000 ms time window following picture presentation. Relevant values for positive and negative pictures for each condition and group were exported for further statistical analysis.…”

Investigation on Depression of College Students Majoring in Physical Education and Nonphysical Education: A StudyBased on the Age Region and Gender of 374 Students

“…Depression has become a more prevalent mental illness than many people imagine [1], with core symptoms of marked and persistent sadness [2], loss of interest, and lack of energy [3]. Suicide is one of the most serious consequences for people with depression and has become the second leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years [4,5].…”