Caffeine and Placebo Improved Maximal Exercise Performance Despite Unchanged Motor Cortex Activation and Greater Prefrontal Cortex Deoxygenation
(2018)
Journal Article
Pires, F. O., dos Anjos, C. A. S., Covolan, R. J. M., Fontes, E. B., Noakes, T. D., St Clair Gibson, A., Magalhães, F. H., & Ugrinowitsch, C. (in press). Caffeine and Placebo Improved Maximal Exercise Performance Despite Unchanged Motor Cortex Activation and Greater Prefrontal Cortex Deoxygenation. Frontiers in Physiology, 9, Article 01144. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.01144
Caffeine (CAF) is an ergogenic aid used to improve exercise performance. Independent studies have suggested that caffeine may have the ability to increase corticospinal excitability, thereby decreasing the motor cortex activation required to generate... Read More about Caffeine and Placebo Improved Maximal Exercise Performance Despite Unchanged Motor Cortex Activation and Greater Prefrontal Cortex Deoxygenation.