Autonomic cardiac control response to walking and executive cognitive task in adolescents with acquired brain injury and typically developed controls.

CONCLUSIONS: While ABI was associated with a reduced HRV at rest and less adaptive cardiac autonomic system to activity, ABI adolescent's response to a cognitive demand during an activity task such as walking was similar to the response of TD adolescents. Accordingly, we may say that adding a cognitive task to a walking task can improve the CACS function of ABI adolescents. PMID: 29533099 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29533099?dopt=Abstract

Source: Brain Injury - March 14, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: Brain Inj Source Type: research