Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01167400
Cybercycling for Cognitive Health
Cybercycling for Older Adults: Neuropsychological, Physiological and Behavioral Effects
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 63 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Union College, New York · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 50 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Exercise has been linked to cognitive health, but few older adults exercise at recommended levels. Cybercycling may provide additional cognitive benefits due to increased motivation to ride the interactive 3D tours. Participants will be randomly assigned to three months of either cybercycling or traditional stationary biking; and they will complete comprehensive evaluations before and after exercise. Older adults are expected to show significant neuropsychological, physiological and behavioral gains.
Detailed description
The purpose of this study is to test the following hypotheses: (1) stationary cycling with virtual reality tours ("cybercyle") will enhance executive function and clinical status more than traditional exercise; (2) exercise effort will explain improvement; and (3) brain-derived neurotrophic growth factor (BDNF) will increase.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Cybercycling | exercising on a videogame-enhanced interactive 3D stationary bicycle for 3 months, 3-5x/wk |
| BEHAVIORAL | Traditional exercise | exercising on a traditional stationary bike for 3 months, 3-5x/wk |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-08-01
- Completion
- 2010-08-01
- First posted
- 2010-07-22
- Last updated
- 2014-09-05
Locations
8 sites across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01167400. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.