{"id":188024,"date":"2015-05-15T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=188024"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:33:26","slug":"exercise-and-concentration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/exercise-and-concentration\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and concentration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes of intense physical exercise is all it takes to noticeably improve the concentration of children and adolescents diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neuropsychiatric condition that afflicts up to 9% of all people under 18 and 4% of adults. Running for five minutes was enough to enhance the attention levels of a group of children and teens with ADHD, bringing them close to the levels of people who don&#8217;t have the condition. Researchers at Mogi das Cruzes University and the Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PUC-SP) quantified the impact of physical activity during a test performed on 56 boys and girls ages 10 to 16. Fourteen kids with ADHD and 14 without the condition performed a test in which they had to run for five minutes, while the other participants watched. Afterward, everyone was given a five-minute rest before embarking on the next challenge: a computer game. The participants with ADHD who had exercised completed the second task 30% faster than kids with ADHD who had only rested \u2013 i.e., taking approximately the same amount of time as participants who did not have the condition (<em>PLOS One<\/em>, March 24, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Physical exercise improves children and adolescents&#8217; ability to focus","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247,250],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-188024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine","tag-neuroscience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=188024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}