NCT05846425

Investigating the Effect of Yoga-based Breathing Styles on the Human Brain, With a Focus on Memory

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universität des Saarlandes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if yoga-based breathing styles could improve memory performance in adult persons without relevant prior experience in yoga, meditation or similar disciplines and without existing health problems which could hinder the implementation of the breathing exercises. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Can the memory performance get better ? * Can the subjective stress level be reduced ? Participants will complete a memory test while doing a specific nasal and oral breathing. They will complete a two-week training period after the test with daily nasal or mouth breathing training or no training at all, depending on the group, the are divided into. Researchers will compare the effect of different breathing styles on memory ability among themselves.

Detailed description

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effect of yoga-based breathing styles on the human brain regarding memory performance in adult persons without relevant prior experience in yoga, meditation or similar disciplines and without existing health problems which could hinder the performance of the breathing exercises. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is there an improve of memory performance through performing the controlled yoga-based breathing styles ? * Is there a relevant reduction of the subjective stress level through performing the controlled yoga-based breathing styles Participants will complete a memory test while performing controlled nasal and oral breathing. They will complete a two-week training period after the test with daily nasal or mouth breathing training or no training at all, depending on the group assignment. Researchers will compare the nasal breathing group to the mouth breathing and the comparison group to see if the nasal breathing results in a significant improvement of the memory capacity.

Conditions

• Hypoventilation
• Hyperventilation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nose-breathing training	13 days of controlled nose-breathing training at a specific frequency with a duration of approximately 15 min a day
OTHER	Mouth-breathing training	13 days of controlled mouth-breathing training at a specific frequency with a duration of approximately 15 min a day

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-03
• Primary completion: 2024-07-01
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2023-05-06
• Last updated: 2024-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany