I bet your doctor will do EXACTLY nothing with this, probably because s/he hasn't read it and doesn't even know the research exists.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691814001577?via%3Dihub
Author links open overlay panel LisaWeinberg AnitaHasnia1 MinoruShinohara
Highlights
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We investigate the effects of resistance exercise on emotional episodic memory.
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We measure physiological state with heart rate, blood pressure, and alpha amylase.
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We use a knee extension/flexion task for resistance exercise.
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We find that resistance exercise during consolidation can benefit memory.
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We find effects of valence based on the physiological response to the exercise.
Abstract
Acute
aerobic exercise can be beneficial to episodic memory. This benefit may
occur because exercise produces a similar physiological response as
physical stressors. When administered during consolidation, acute
stress, both physical and psychological, consistently enhances episodic
memory, particularly memory for emotional materials. Here we
investigated whether a single bout of resistance exercise performed
during consolidation can produce episodic memory benefits 48 h later. We
used a one-leg knee extension/flexion task for the resistance exercise.
To assess the physiological response to the exercise, we measured
salivary alpha amylase (a biomarker of central norepinephrine), heart
rate, and blood pressure. To test emotional episodic memory, we used a
remember-know recognition memory paradigm with equal numbers of
positive, negative, and neutral IAPS images as stimuli. The group that
performed the exercise, the active group, had higher overall recognition
accuracy than the group that did not exercise, the passive group. We
found a robust effect of valence across groups, with better performance
on emotional items as compared to neutral items and no difference
between positive and negative items. This effect changed based on the
physiological response to the exercise. Within the active group,
participants with a high physiological response to the exercise were
impaired for neutral items as compared to participants with a low
physiological response to the exercise. Our results demonstrate that a
single bout of resistance exercise performed during consolidation can
enhance episodic memory and that the effect of valence on memory depends
on the physiological response to the exercise.
PsycINFO classification
2340 cognitive processes
2343 learning & memory
2540 physiological processes
Keywords
Arousal
Emotion
Episodic memory
Exercise
Stress
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