Clinical trial NCT05314699: The Order Effect of Acute Concurrent Exercise on Executive Function: An Event-Related Potential Study
Official title: The Order Effect of Acute Concurrent Exercise on Executive Function: An Event-Related Potential Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Executive Function
Keywords: acute exercise
concurrent exercise
inhibition
cognitive flexibility
Lead sponsor: National Taiwan Normal University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-04-06
Enrollment: 99
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 28
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants were randomly assigned to three group, namely the resistance-aerobic exercise group (RA), the aerobic-resistance exercise group (AR), and the reading control group (RC). Participants in RA groups were asked to finish 5 min warm-up, 13 min resistance exercise, 12 min aerobic exercise, and 5 min cool down. Participants in AR groups were asked to finish 5 min warm-up, 12 min aerobic exercise, 13 min resistance exercise, and 5 min cool down. Participants in RC group were required to finish 35 min reading. All groups took a 30 min cognitive test before and after the intervention.The blood lactate were collected before, 17 minutes after, and after the intervention.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Executive function is a high-level cognition which plays an important role in our life. Meta-analysis study has demonstrated that acute exercise could improve executive function. However, it is still unclear whether executive function can be enhanced by the concurrent exercise that combines aerobic and resistance exercise. Moreover, the sequence of concurrent exercise may result in different blood lactate concentration which may affect executive function. Therefore, the purposes of present study are: (1) Measuring the order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function. (2) Measuring whether order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function is mediated by blood lactate.

Detailed description: Executive function is a high-level cognition which plays an important role in academic performance, career, and interpersonal relationship. Meta-analysis study has demonstrated that acute exercise could improve executive function, and also observed similar positive effect through both aerobic and resistance exercise. However, it is still unclear whether executive function can be enhanced by the concurrent exercise that combines aerobic and resistance exercise. Moreover, the sequence of concurrent exercise may result in different blood lactate concentration which may affect executive function. Therefore, the purposes of present study are: (1) Measuring the order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function. (2) Measuring whether order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function is mediated by blood lactate.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. no history of psychiatric or neurological disorders
2. no history of cardiovascular disease
3. normal or corrected to normal vision and normal color perception
4. right handed
5. 18.5 \< BMI \< 27

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Diagnosed with epilepsy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Stroop test
timeFrame: 30 minutes
measure: task switch test
timeFrame: 30 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: blood lactate
timeFrame: 1 minutes
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University
name: Yu-Kai Chang, Ph.D.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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