Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00463255
Diet and the Aging Brain
Phase IV Interventional Study: Effect of Diet on Brain Function in Elderly Healthy People
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 120 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 50 Years – 80 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
We investigate whether a change in diet could provide positive effects on general brain functions in healthy elderly people.
Detailed description
The age-related degradation of cognitive functions even to the point of neurodegenerative disorders such as alzheimer's disease are a growing public-health concern with potentially devastating effects. Refering to animal data and empirical studies, a healthy diet rich in unsaturated fatty acids and low in calories should improve cognitive functions such as learning and memory. To test this hypothesis, we study general brain functions in healthy elderly subjects (50-80 years old) during a short term diet.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | diet |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2006-08-01
- Completion
- 2008-10-01
- First posted
- 2007-04-20
- Last updated
- 2011-11-08
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00463255. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.