Excessive athletic exercise can tire the brain
Prolonged athletic training has similar cognitive effects with prolonged intellectual work.
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by Bastien Blain, Cyril Schmit, Anaël Aubry, Christophe Hausswirth, Yann Le Meur, Mathias Pessiglione
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- Extensive athletic training affects cognitive control which is needed to limit impulsive behavior.
- When triathletes were exposed to excessive training loads their decision making was affected and they acted more impulsively.
"The lateral prefrontal region that was affected by sport-training overload was exactly the same that had been shown vulnerable to excessive cognitive work in our previous studies," - Mathias Pessiglione of Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. "This brain region therefore appeared as the weak spot of the brain network responsible for cognitive control."
Source: cell.com/current-biology
