Breaking Sitting with Exercise for Brain Health
This study is looking at whether short exercise breaks during sitting can improve brain health in adults aged 40-75. Researchers will compare two types of exercise breaks: High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and Light-Intensity Interval Training (LIIT). You would participate if you are generally healthy, sedentary (sit for 6+ hours daily), and not very physically active. The main goal is to see if these exercise breaks improve brain activity and cognitive functions (like thinking and memory). The study aims to enroll 54 participants, but its current status is unclear.
- Study design
- This is a randomized crossover study involving 54 older adults. You would experience both the HIIT and LIIT break conditions in a balanced order.
- What's involved
- You would participate in two 3.5-hour sessions, each involving interruptions to sitting with 6-minute exercise breaks every 30 minutes. There will be a 1 to 4-week break between sessions.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Brain activity and cognitive functions will be measured immediately before, during, and immediately after each 3.5-hour intervention session.
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Breaking Sitting with High-intensity Interval Training for Brain Health
At a glance
Conditions
NCT06243016
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinoisstudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Dominika M Pindus, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Change in task-evoked brain activityImmediately before intervention, 2 x during the intervention (50 min and 120 min into the intervention), and immediately after the intervention
EEG will be used to measure event-related brain potentials including the P3b-component during an inhibitory control task.