Exercise decreases defensive responses to unpredictable, but not predictable, threat.
Tiffany R LagoAbigail HsiungBrooks P LeitnerCourtney J DuckworthKong Y ChenMonique ErnstChristian GrillonPublished in: Depression and anxiety (2018)
These results suggest that exercise reduces defensive response to unpredictable, but not predictable, threat, a dissociation that may help inform clinical indications for this behavioral intervention, as well as provide clues to its underlying neurobehavioral mechanisms.