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Filter by:The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of resistance training on sarcopenic obesity in older women.
This study aims to study the relationships between obesity, circadian rhythm, and aging. The investigators set up a prospective cohort registry for morbid obesity, obesity, and normal subjects with annual follow-up. The cohort aims to investigate the pathophysiological, molecular, genetic, and cellular aspects of the relationships between obesity, circadian deregulation, and impacts on aging. Clinical data, questionnaires, biological material, and molecular signatures will be collected and investigated.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a neuroplasticity-based computerized cognitive training for the elderly
The conduit arteries exhibit a viscoelastic behavior. Visco-elasticity is partially regulated by endothelium and contributes to the optimization of the heart-vessel coupling. Aging or high resting heart rate (HR) could alter visco-elastic properties leading to increase stiffness of the conduit arteries, an independent cardiovascular risk factor, and degradation of heart-vessel coupling. Lowering HR with ivabradine could reduce these effects. The objective of this study is to assess the effect of HR reduction by repeated administration of ivabradine on visco-elastic properties, vascular geometry and function of common carotid artery, and on cardiovascular hemodynamic in healthy subject. The influence of aging on ivabradine effects are studied too. 30 healthy volunteers aged between 25 and 65 years old, with a HR ≥ 70 bpm, will receive ivabradine or placebo during 8 days in a single center, randomized, cross-group, double blinded, placebo-controlled study. Each period of treatment will be separate by 12 to 16 days of wash-out. Each subject will participate in an exploration visit, including evaluation of visco-elastic properties, vascular geometry and function of common carotid artery, and cardiovascular hemodynamic, before and after ivabradine or placebo taking.
Changes in mood and cognition are common in older adulthood. Some studies have suggested that transcranial application of near-infrared (NIR) light may have enhancing effects on cognitive and mood status in young adults and individuals with traumatic brain injury. This effect has not been examined in older adults. This study will involve a randomized sham-controlled trial to learn whether NIR stimulation improves cognition and mood in older adults, relative to sham treated controls.
The objective of this research is to develop original virtual reality scenarios and/or new virtual reality equipments to evaluate or diagnose pathologies, such as attention deficit disorders or neuropsychiatric pathologies, addiction, anxiety or depression or pathologies interfering with sleep/wake disorders.
The Lake Nona Life Project aims to examine the health and wellness of participants over the course of multiple years, focusing on the links between health and wellness, longevity, quality of life, and human performance.
In adulthood, limited mobility and pain are very common and often the first clear sign of functional decline. The loss of independent mobility is related to higher rates of functional disability and mortality; however, it is also susceptible to interventions through exercises. With aging, changes in peripheral and central nervous system also occur, which lead to degradation of the sensory receptors as well as a loss of muscle mass and coordination. However, both, structural and functional dysfunctions of the nervous system, can be mitigated by increasing physical activity. The aim of this study is therefore, to study the effects on pain and functional capacity of a therapeutic exercise training program in an adult people sample. The therapeutic exercise machines proposed in this trial have not been previously analyzed and provide insight into this field due to their design. The design of this new machines allows the adaptation to each concrete clinical situation by the adjustment of different parameters such as feedback, range of movement, time of repetition, intensity, speed and rhythm, which facilitate motor control training.
Intrahepatic and intramyocellular lipid concentrations are elevated in elderly individuals relative to young people, despite no significant difference in fasting plasma TAG concentrations. Our general hypothesis is that the increase in intrahepatic fat with age results from reduced VLDL turnover, and therefore elderly individuals in this study will display lower VLDL turnover rates than young individuals. The aims of this study are a) to compare VLDL turnover in young and elderly individuals, and b) to compare a bolus method and a constant infusion method of assessing VLDL turnover.
The purpose of this study is to examine the age and the neurodegenerative disease effects on social cognition. Secondary goals are to better understand the relationships between different component of social cognition, executive functioning, and behavior and describing the neuronal substrates associated to the alteration of the social cognition in ageing and dementia.