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Abstract #2365

MRI based quantification of cortical responses to exercise

Andrew P Hale 1 , Charlotte E Buchanan 1 , Johannes van Lieshout 2 , Penny A Gowland 1 , Paul L Greenhaff 3 , and Sue T Francis 1

1 Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2 School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 3 Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Low to moderate intensity dynamic exercise in healthy, young individuals has been directly linked to enhanced cerebral neuronal activity. Here we assess the feasibility of using MRI to measure global and regional changes in CBF to steady-state exercise. We demonstrate that it is possible to assess global and regional brain responses to exercise involving a large muscle mass at workloads of up to 50%VO2max. Moreover, at low intensity workloads (30%VO2max) it appears that there is an uncoupling of regional blood flow from brain activity, suggesting that cardiac output is the primary determinant of regional brain blood flow under these conditions.

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