Investigating the Effect of Yoga-based Breathing Styles on the Human Brain, With a Focus on Memory
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 75
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Improvement of learned images
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Willingness to take on the 2-week exercises but no new athletic or meditative activities
- •Yoga-naive and without significant prior experience in various meditative or athletic disciplines that ostensibly involve elements of breath control
- •Access to a device with internet access
- •Signing of the consent form to participate in the study
排除标准
- •Known clinically relevant internal or neurological diseases, especially if associated with chronic pathological oxygenation (e.g. COPD, severe bronchial asthma, sleep apnea, but also CKD).
- •History of drug or alcohol abuse
- •Known psychiatric illnesses that currently require therapy (e.g., pronounced claustrophobia)
- •Medication that could falsify the data collected
- •Lack of consent to take note of possible incidental findings
- •known epileptic seizures, which could be intensified by the visual insertion of the stimuli
结局指标
主要结局
Improvement of learned images
时间窗: 2 weeks
Memory improvement by performing the home nasal breathing training. The correctness of the mapping is measured by the percentage correctness of the given answers in the memory test, which takes place promptly after the learning phase and 2 weeks later.
次要结局
- Reduction of subjective stress level(2 weeks)