Functional relevance of resistance training-induced neuroplasticity in health and disease

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Dokumenter

  • Tibor Hortobágyi
  • Urs Granacher
  • Miguel Fernandez-del-Olmo
  • Glyn Howatson
  • Andrea Manca
  • Franca Deriu
  • Wolfgang Taube
  • Markus Gruber
  • Gonzalo Márquez
  • Lundbye-Jensen, Jesper
  • David Colomer-Poveda

Repetitive, monotonic, and effortful voluntary muscle contractions performed for just a few weeks, i.e., resistance training, can substantially increase maximal voluntary force in the practiced task and can also increase gross motor performance. The increase in motor performance is often accompanied by neuroplastic adaptations in the central nervous system. While historical data assigned functional relevance to such adaptations induced by resistance training, this claim has not yet been systematically and critically examined in the context of motor performance across the lifespan in health and disease. A review of muscle activation, brain and peripheral nerve stimulation, and imaging data revealed that increases in motor performance and neuroplasticity tend to be uncoupled, making a mechanistic link between neuroplasticity and motor performance inconclusive. We recommend new approaches, including causal mediation analytical and hypothesis-driven models to substantiate the functional relevance of resistance training-induced neuroplasticity in the improvements of gross motor function across the lifespan in health and disease.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Vol/bind122
Sider (fra-til)79-91
Antal sider13
ISSN0149-7634
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

Bibliografisk note

CURIS 2021 NEXS 037

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