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Clinical Trial Summary

20 healthy man, 10 in trial group and 10 in control group (randomly divided) will participate in the experiment on order to evaluate if improvement in physical fitness influences spatial learning in humans.


Clinical Trial Description

subjects in both groups will perform 4 sets of VO2max test and spatial orientation test with a month between them (total 3 month).

in addition, subjects in trial group will follow a training program throughout the trial (running on treadmill 3 times a week), suited according to their result in the first VO2max test.

in each set VO2max test will be perform before spatial orientation test , in order to evaluated the subject`s aerobic fitness. the spatial orientation test is composed of 5 following days in which the subject has 3 attempts to arrive to a destination in xbox one controller using a virtual glasses (Oculus Rift DK2). each attempt duration is 2 min. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label


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NCT number NCT02831036
Study type Interventional
Source Sheba Medical Center
Contact Haggai Schermann, M.D
Phone +972828771014
Email Haggai.Schermann@sheba.health.gov.il
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date October 2016
Completion date April 2018

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