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Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduces Competitive Anxiety and Modulates Heart Rate Variability in an eSports Player
| dc.contributor.author | Machado, Sergio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sant’Ana, Leandro de Oliveira | |
| dc.contributor.author | Travassos, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Monteiro, Diogo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-17T15:09:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-17T15:09:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-11-16 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Previous research has recently shown that high cognitive and somatic anxiety and low self-confidence, before and during sport competitions have a significant correlation with heart rate variability (HRV) changes and can reduce overall athletic performance. Therefore, interventions, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), can be a potential tool to reduce psychophysiological anxiety-related and enhance athletic performance. We present a case of a male professional athlete of eSports. We explored the effects of a single session of anodal tDCS (a-tDCS) at 2mA over the dosrsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on competitive anxiety and HRV assessed in baseline (BL), pre-tDCS, post-tDCS and postgame moments and compared between moments. Here, we found a decrease in somatic and cognitive anxiety, as well as an increase in self-confidence and in SDNN index in the post-tDCS moment compared with BL, pre-tDCS and post-game moments. These findings can be a result of an acute change in the attentional state, influencing the processing of threatening information essential for cognitive anxiety and of a self-regulatory process, which can regulate physiological arousal response, such as HRV. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2174/17450179-v18-e2209270 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1745-0179 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/7868 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Anxiety | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Dosrsolateral prefrontal cortex | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Heart rate variability | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | HRV | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Transcranial direct current stimulation | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | tDCS | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduces Competitive Anxiety and Modulates Heart Rate Variability in an eSports Player | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 18 | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Monteiro | |
| person.givenName | Diogo | |
| person.identifier | F-1202-2015 | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | ED1F-6228-E26F | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-7179-6814 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 56437945500 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |
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