What is it about?
Physical exercise is considered as a promising medication free and cost-effective adjunct treatment for substance use disorders. Nevertheless, evidence regarding the effectiveness of these interventions is currently limited, thereby signaling the need to better understand the mechanisms underlying their impact on substance use disorders, in order to reframe and optimize them. Here we advance that physical exercise could be re-conceptualized as an “interoception booster”, namely as a way to help people with substance use disordersto better decode and interpret bodily-related signals associated with transient states of homeostatic imbalances that usually trigger consumption.
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Why is it important?
We propose that physical exercise could serve as a channel for helping individuals with substance use disorders to better regulate bodily sensations and homeostatic imbalances.
Perspectives
Despite its recognized potential in modulating negative affect, reward and stress responses, the efficacy of physical exercise interventions in substance use disorders is currently limited. We propose that interoceptive abilities could be retrained by helping individuals with substance use disorders in optimally predicting and interpreting states of homeostatic imbalances associated with physical exercises.
Damien Brevers
UCLouvain
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This page is a summary of: Physical Exercise to Redynamize Interoception in Substance use Disorders, Current Neuropharmacology, May 2024, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1570159x21666230314143803.
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