Bart Roelands

Prof. Bart Roelands, PhD

Vice-Dean/Professor Bart Roelands is professor in Movement and Sport Sciences. His research group focuses on Exercise and the Brain in Health and Disease. Prof Roelands’ focus and expertise is on the complex phenomenon of fatigue. He started researching the physical component of fatigue during exercise, and how brain neurotransmission is involved in it and gradually evolved toward studying also the mental component of fatigue, and the interaction between physical and mental fatigue. Bart Roelands is an active member of the scientific committee of the European College of Sport Science, an editorial board member of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise and an associate editor of the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.

Title and brief description of the talk

Mental fatigue in sports: from the lab to the field

Over the last decade awareness of a mental component in fatigue has grown enormously. This presentation will cover the most important findings in the lab (consequences and mechanisms), and on the field. At the same time we will look at potential countermeasures that have been identified and how they can potentially alleviate the negative consequences of mental fatigue on performance capacity.