Boosting your mood: How exercise and the amygdala dance together.

ABSTRACT: Accumulative evidence has shown that functional heterogeneity exists in subregions of amygdala. Recently, exercise serving as automatic emotion regulation has been observed to induce the altered activation of amygdala associated with mood change. However, the specific role of subregions of amygdala underlying these effects are not fully understood. By using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), this study examined whether the subregions of amygdala play distinct roles in mood improvement induced by acute exercise. Participants (n = 76) aged 18-22 were recruited and randomly divided into the exercise group and the control group. The exercise group received a 30-minute intervention with moderate-intensity exercise while the control group completed a reading co

SUBMITTER: Ge LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12309953 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature