Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study
To study whether Tai Chi (TC) practice can improve the brain connectivity of the prefrontal lobe of college students, the positive psychological capital questionnaires and resting EEG signals were acquired from 50 college students including 25 TC practitioners and 25 demographically matched TC healt...
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| description | To study whether Tai Chi (TC) practice can improve the brain connectivity of the prefrontal lobe of college students, the positive psychological capital questionnaires and resting EEG signals were acquired from 50 college students including 25 TC practitioners and 25 demographically matched TC healthy controls. The results showed that the score of the positive psychological capital questionnaire of the TC group was significantly higher than that of the control group, and the node degree of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe of both groups was positively correlated with the score of the positive psychological capital questionnaire. In addition, the response time of the TC group under auditory stimulation was significantly shorter than that of the control group, and there was a significant positive correlation between response time and its characteristic path length, and a significant negative correlation with global efficiency. Meanwhile, during the selected range of sparsity, the difference in global network parameters between two groups is significant in the alpha band. Under all single sparsity, the clustering coefficient, global efficiency, and local efficiency of the TC group have a higher trend, while the characteristic path length tended to be shorter. In the analysis of the local characteristics of the resting brain functional network, it was found that the node degree of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe of the TC group was higher, and the difference was significant in some nodes. These results all point to the fact that TC practice has a certain impact on specific brain areas of the brain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b8d24bf0695b4d38ad780a011be076522022-12-22T02:33:24ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Neuroscience1662-51612022-06-011610.3389/fnhum.2022.912276912276Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory StudyXiaoyuan Li0Xiaoyuan Li1Jintao Geng2Xiaoyu Du3Hongyu Si4Zhenlong Wang5School of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Physical Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Electrical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Physical Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaSchool of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, ChinaTo study whether Tai Chi (TC) practice can improve the brain connectivity of the prefrontal lobe of college students, the positive psychological capital questionnaires and resting EEG signals were acquired from 50 college students including 25 TC practitioners and 25 demographically matched TC healthy controls. The results showed that the score of the positive psychological capital questionnaire of the TC group was significantly higher than that of the control group, and the node degree of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe of both groups was positively correlated with the score of the positive psychological capital questionnaire. In addition, the response time of the TC group under auditory stimulation was significantly shorter than that of the control group, and there was a significant positive correlation between response time and its characteristic path length, and a significant negative correlation with global efficiency. Meanwhile, during the selected range of sparsity, the difference in global network parameters between two groups is significant in the alpha band. Under all single sparsity, the clustering coefficient, global efficiency, and local efficiency of the TC group have a higher trend, while the characteristic path length tended to be shorter. In the analysis of the local characteristics of the resting brain functional network, it was found that the node degree of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe of the TC group was higher, and the difference was significant in some nodes. These results all point to the fact that TC practice has a certain impact on specific brain areas of the brain.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.912276/fullbrain connectivityTai ChiEEG signalfunctional brain networknetwork metrics |
| spellingShingle | Xiaoyuan Li Xiaoyuan Li Jintao Geng Xiaoyu Du Hongyu Si Zhenlong Wang Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study Frontiers in Human Neuroscience brain connectivity Tai Chi EEG signal functional brain network network metrics |
| title | Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study |
| title_full | Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study |
| title_fullStr | Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study |
| title_short | Relationship Between the Practice of Tai Chi for More Than 6 Months With Mental Health and Brain in University Students: An Exploratory Study |
| title_sort | relationship between the practice of tai chi for more than 6 months with mental health and brain in university students an exploratory study |
| topic | brain connectivity Tai Chi EEG signal functional brain network network metrics |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.912276/full |
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