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Older individuals, 60-90, will be provided regular or cognitively based yoga training. They will then be evaluated using standard cognitive testing devices.
Reductions in executive function are common with age. Along with these declines come reductions in simple functional patterns of daily living such as crossing a street, walking in a crowded area, or performing any functions that occurs in an open (changing) environment. This study will use a newly developed yoga program incorporating multi-directional movements, cognitive challenges and visuomotor disturbances to improve executive function and associated movements in persons over 60 years of age.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Standard Yoga | Experimental | Yoga will be performed using linear forward and backward movements. |
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| Multi-directional Yoga | Experimental | The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. . |
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| Educational Control | Experimental | Lectures on Health and Wellness |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Standard Yoga | Other | Yoga using standard poses and linear movements |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| NIH Toolbox: Picture Sequence Memory Test | Measures episodic memory. Participants are asked to reproduce a sequence of pictures that is shown on the screen. | 5 minutes |
| NIH Toolbox Flanker test | Measures attention and inhibitory control. Participant focuses on a given stimulus while inhibiting attention to stimuli flanking it. | 5 minutes |
| NIH Toolbox List Sorting test | Measures working memory. Participant recalls and sequences different visually and orally presented stimuli. | 5 minutes |
| NIH Toolbox Pattern Comparison Processing Speed test | Measures speed of processing. Participants discern whether two side-by-side pictures are the same or not, with 85 seconds to respond to as many items as possible. Items are simple so as to purely measure processing speed. | 5 minutes |
| Walking Executive Function Tests | Walking and responding to visual cues presented on a 60 inch monitor. | 10 minutes |
| Timed up-and-go | Rising from a chair, circumventing a cone and returning to the chair. | 5 minutes |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Joseph Signorile, PhD | University of Miami | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Max Orovitz Laboratories | Coral Gables | Florida | 33146-2416 | United States | ||
| Laboratory of Neruomuscular Research and Active Aging |
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Comparison of Yoga Interventions
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Tests will not be performed by the investigators providing the interventions..
| Multi-directional Yoga | Other | The multidirectional yoga training program will use both simple and complex movement sequences (asana or postures) that include a cognitive component. For example, participants will be taught a movement sequence that includes 16-20 yoga postures that increase in difficulty as the training progresses. |
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| Educational Control | Other | Lectures on health and fitness |
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| Coral Gables |
| Florida |
| 33147 |
| United States |