Cardiac Autonomic Modulations and Psychological Correlates in the Yukon Arctic Ultra: The Longest and the Coldest Ultramarathon

• Main Authors: Rundfeldt, Lea C., Maggioni, Martina A., Coker, Robert H., Gunga, Hanns-Christian, Riveros-Rivera, Alain, Schalt, Adriane, Steinach, Mathias
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin 2018
• Subjects: cold; exercise performance; extreme environments; fatigue; heart rate variability; mood; subarctic ultramarathon; ultra-endurance; 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften610 Medizin und Gesundheit612 Humanphysiologie; Arctic; Borg; Yukon; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-23694; https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/20391

Studies on human physical performance in extreme environments have effectively approached the investigation of adaptation mechanisms and their physiological limits. As scientific interest in the interplay between physiological and psychological aspects of performance is growing, we aimed to investig...