{"id":547640,"date":"2025-06-09T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=547640"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:23:58","slug":"cycling-against-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/cycling-against-parkinsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling against Parkinson&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_547645\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-547645 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-parkinson-pedalar-2024-11-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-parkinson-pedalar-2024-11-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-parkinson-pedalar-2024-11-800-250x264.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-parkinson-pedalar-2024-11-800-700x739.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-parkinson-pedalar-2024-11-800-120x127.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Peopleimages\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span>Regular movement on an exercise bike helps organize brain activity<span class=\"media-credits\">Peopleimages\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cycling could help fight Parkinson&#8217;s disease. A study carried out at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and the Federal University of Paran\u00e1 (UFPR) in partnership with English institutions mapped the brain activity of 24 healthy adults using an exercise bike. The results showed that the sensory stimulation of cycling, especially with the eyes closed, causes greater organization of neuronal activity, something usually reduced by neurodegenerative diseases. \u201cWhat has been demonstrated in the experiments is that the effects of cycling are similar to medication for patients with Parkinson\u2019s,\u201d explains neuroscientist John Fontenele Ara\u00fajo, from UFRN. As research advances, it may be possible to combine medication and cycling, with the additional benefit of encouraging a less sedentary lifestyle. According to Ara\u00fajo, the next stage of the research will involve conducting similar tests on people with Parkinson&#8217;s, combined with walking before and after cycling. Another step will be to immerse the bike rider in a virtual reality environment (<em>PLOS ONE<\/em>, October).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling causes changes in brain function that may be beneficial in the treatment of Parkinson&#8217;s","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1651],"tags":[247,260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-547640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547640","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=547640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547649,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547640\/revisions\/547649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547640"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=547640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}