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Mild Cognitive Impairments and Whole-body Cryotherapy – Placebo Control Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

K. Urbańska ,
B. Stańczykiewicz ,
D. Szcześniak ,
E. Trypka ,
A. Zabłocka  and
J. Rymaszewska
K. Urbańska
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
B. Stańczykiewicz
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
D. Szcześniak
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
E. Trypka
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland
A. Zabłocka
Affiliation:
Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Immunochemistry, Wroclaw, Poland
J. Rymaszewska
Affiliation:
Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw, Poland

Abstract

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Introduction

Cognitive impairment is considered to be a result of oxidative stress and disturbances in inflammatory status. Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC), which is a short exposure to extremely low temperatures, probably regulates the release of cytokines and nitric oxide. The hypothesis is that WBC may be useful in the therapy of mild cognitive impairments (MCI).

Aims

The effect of the whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) on cognitive impairments was investigated.

Objectives

In this study the observation of several biological factors and cognitive functions were conducted to analyse the WBC influence on cognitive deficits.

Methods

People with MCI participated in 10 WBC sessions divided for experimental group (−110 °C till −160 °C) or control group (−10 °C till −20 °C). The MoCa test (scores 26 and lower) was used for inclusion criteria. Cognitive functions were measured with: TYM, DemTect and SLUMS at baseline and in follow-up. Biological factors (cytokines, BDNF, NO) were also assessed.

Results

It was shown that memory domains in experimental group improved after WBC sessions. Also modulatory effect on inflammatory mediators in plasma was shown. The results of this study consist of the comparison of experimental and control groups regarding to cognitive functions as well as biological factors.

Conclusions

Whole-body cryotherapy may be supposed to improve cognitive functions in MCI patients. The modulatory effect of WBC on immunological response may be considered as one of possible mechanisms of its action. However, there is no confirmation how long the effects resist so further investigations are needed.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Old age psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S665 - S666
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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