Acute Affective Responses and Frontal Electroencephalographic Asymmetry to Prescribed and Self-selected Exercise

Eduardo Lattari; Eduardo Portugal; Renato Sobral Monteiro Junior; Bruno Ribeiro Ramalho Oliveira; Tony Meireles Santos; Gioia Mura; Federica Sancassiani; Eric Murillo-Rodriguez; Oscar Arias-Carrión; Henning Budde; Nuno Barbosa Rocha; Sérgio Machado

doi:10.2174/1745017901612010108

Acute Affective Responses and Frontal Electroencephalographic Asymmetry to Prescribed and Self-selected Exercise

Clin Pract Epidemiol Ment Health. 2016 Oct 31:12:108-119. doi: 10.2174/1745017901612010108. eCollection 2016.

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Physical Activity Neuroscience, Physical Activity Sciences Post-Graduate Program (PGCAF), Salgado de Oliveira University, Niteroi, Brazil ; Laboratory of Panic & Respiration, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, IPUB/UFRJ, RJ, Brazil; Neuroscience Laboratory of Exercise, UERJ, RJ, Brazil.
³ Doctoral Program in Neurology - Neurosciences, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, RJ, Brazil.
⁴ Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, IPUB/UFRJ, RJ, Brazil.
⁵ Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Public Health, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Cagliari, Italy.
⁷ Laboratorio de Neurociencias Moleculares e Integrativas, Escuela de Medicina División Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Anáhuac Mayab, Mérida, Yucatán, México; Grupo de Investigación en Envejecimiento, División Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Anáhuac Mayab, Mérida, Yucatán, México; Intercontinental Neuroscience Research Group, Mexico.
⁸ Unidad de Trastornos de Movimiento y Sueño, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea Gonzalez, Secretaria de Salud México DF, México; Intercontinental Neuroscience Research Group, Mexico.
⁹ Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Pedagogy, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland; Lithuanian Sport University, Kaunas, Lithuania; Intercontinental Neuroscience Research Group, Mexico.
¹⁰ Polytechnic Institute of Porto, School of Allied Health Sciences, Portugal; Intercontinental Neuroscience Research Group, Mexico.
¹¹ Laboratory of Physical Activity Neuroscience, Physical Activity Sciences Post-Graduate Program (PGCAF), Salgado de Oliveira University, Niteroi, Brazil; Laboratory of Panic & Respiration, Institute of Psychiatry of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Intercontinental Neuroscience Research Group, Mexico.

Abstract

Objective: Our goal was to compare affective responses and frontal electroencephalographic alpha asymmetry induced by prescribed exercise (PE) and self-selected exercise (SS).

Method: Twenty active participants underwent a submaximal exercise test to estimate maximal oxygen consumption (VO_2max). Participants enrolled a cross-over randomized study where each participant completed three conditions: PE (50%PVO_2max), SS and Control. The electroencephalography was performed before and after exercise. The feeling scale, felt arousal scale and heart rate were recorded before, during and after each condition. The ratings of perceived exertion were recorded during and after each condition.

Results: The heart rate and ratings of perceived exertion showed higher values in the PE and SS conditions compared to controls, with no differences between the PE and SS conditions. For the feeling scale, the SS presented higher values compared to the PE and Control conditions. The felt arousal scale presented higher values in the PE and SS conditions compared to control. There was no interaction between condition and moment, or main effect for condition and moment for frontal alpha asymmetry (InF4-InF3).

Conclusion: The SS provided better affective responses compared to PE, thus can consider self-selected intensity as an appropriate option. In general, no frontal alpha asymmetry was seen due to an exercise intervention.

Keywords: Affective response; Frontal EEG asymmetry; Prescribed exercise; Self-selected exercise.