Researcher from Purdue University Provides Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Nerve Growth Factors (Acute Effects of High-Intensity Resistance Exercise on Recognition of Relational Memory, Lactate, and Serum and Plasma...).

A recent study conducted by researchers at Purdue University explored the acute effects of high-intensity resistance exercise on memory and the levels of lactate and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the blood. The study involved 36 adults who performed resistance exercise and a rest condition on separate days. The results showed that resistance exercise led to a tradeoff between speed and accuracy in object recognition, with objects that were previously studied being remembered less accurately but recognized faster. However, the changes in lactate and BDNF did not predict any measures of object or relational recognition. These findings suggest that acute high-intensity resistance exercise may selectively improve the processing speed of recognizing objects at the expense of accuracy, and changes in memory performance are unlikely driven by increases in lactate or BDNF. [Extracted from the article]