Cognitive Function among Young Women's Football Players in the Summer Heat

Soichi Ando; Nana Ogoh; Shotaro Saito; Hironori Watanabe; Maki Ohsuga; Tetsuya Hasegawa; Shigehiko Ogoh

doi:10.1155/2023/5516439

Cognitive Function among Young Women's Football Players in the Summer Heat

Transl Sports Med. 2023 Nov 2:2023:5516439. doi: 10.1155/2023/5516439. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Soichi Ando¹, Nana Ogoh^{2

3}, Shotaro Saito⁴, Hironori Watanabe⁴, Maki Ohsuga², Tetsuya Hasegawa², Shigehiko Ogoh⁴

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.
² Chifure AS Elfen Saitama, Saitama, Japan.
³ Kagawa Nutritional University, Sakado, Japan.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan.

Abstract

Recently, there has been a growing focus on studies related to women's football. However, the cognitive function of female football players has not been extensively characterized. Thus, we explored how the cognitive function of female football players was altered during a series of matches in summer and examined day-to-day variations in cognitive function with regard to dehydration status. Resting cognitive function was assessed from 17 young women football players during the Japan Club Youth Women's football tournament, which spanned eight consecutive days. Cognitive function initially improved, with this improvement sustained throughout the tournament. It is worth noting that ten participants experienced symptoms of dehydration at least once during the tournament; however, these symptoms were not found to be linked to impaired cognitive function, suggesting that resting cognitive function remains unaffected during summer matches, even in the presence of dehydration symptoms.