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Study in Cognitively Intact Seniors Aiming to Assess the Effects of Meditation Training — Age-Well  

Cognitive Aging Clinical Trial

Official title:
Interventional Study in Cognitively Intact Seniors Aiming to Assess the Effects of Meditation Training and Foreign Language Learning on Behavioral, Biological and Neuroimaging Measures

Clinical Trial Summary

As the number of older people in Europe grows, increasing healthy life years is a priority. As people live longer, ensuring good mental as well as physical health into later years is becoming ever more important. Cognitive decline, dementia (e.g. Alzheimer's Disease, AD), sleep disturbances and depression, all related to psychological distress and anxiety, are significant drivers of reduced quality of life in older adults. This project builds on evidence that meditation practice have the potential to downregulate these adverse factors and positively impact mental and neurological conditions including AD.

Clinical Trial Description

Understanding of the neurocognitive mechanisms of meditation is still limited. Meditation can be conceptualized as "a set of complex emotional and attentional regulation strategies developed for a variety of purposes including the development of emotional well-being and balance". Affective (emotional) and cognitive (attentional) control are therefore the most likely mechanisms by which meditation could impact aging and AD. Specifically, meditation could enhance the controlling role of mid-brain structures and the executive network over structures involved in memory, emotions, and regulation of the immune system. This would lead to better emotional and cognitive control which in turn would be associated with improved mental and physical health. ;

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT02977819
Study type Interventional
Source Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 24, 2016
Completion date November 23, 2022
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