Physical Fitness and Hot Executive Function in Alzheimer's Risk
This 18-month study tracks how physical fitness relates to executive function in older adults, aiming to determine if fitness improvements predict better cognitive performance. Participants complete assessments at baseline and 18 months, including cardiorespiratory fitness (YMCA bike test), muscle strength (chest and l
| Condition(s) | Executive Function (Cognition), Event-Related Potentials, Physical Fitness |
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| Status | Recruiting |
| Study type | Observational |
| Summary | This 18-month study tracks how physical fitness relates to executive function in older adults, aiming to determine if fitness improvements predict better cognitive performance. Participants complete assessments at baseline and 18 months, including cardiorespiratory fitness (YMCA bike test), muscle strength (chest and leg press tests), and executive function (computer tasks with brain activity recording via EEG). Additional measures include physical activity questionnaires, cognitive screening (MMSE), memory tests (digit span), demographics (age, sex, education), and blood tests for APOE ε4 gene status. No exercise program will be provided, allowing observation of natural fitness-cognition relationships in daily life. |
| Who can participate | Inclusion Criteria: * Age 50-70. * Able to engage in fitness testing. * Normal vision or corrected-to-normal vision. Exclusion Criteria: * Suffering from cardiopulmonary-related diseases. * Suffering from cognitive, neurological or psychiatric disorders (e.g., dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, etc.). * Suffering from infectious diseases (e.g., hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). * Having a history of drug or alcohol abuse. * Having colour vision deficiency (e.g., colour blindness). * Having a family history of aneurysm. * Taking medications that affect brain function. |
| Ages | 50 Years to 70 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | Yes |
| Lead sponsor | National Taiwan Normal University |
| Locations | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Start date | 2025-01-10 |
| NCT ID | NCT07081269 |
| Official listing | https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07081269 |