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RECRUITING
NCT06297278
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Exercise Facilitation of Adolescent Fear Extinction, Frontolimbic Circuitry, and Endocannabinoids

Sponsor: Wayne State University

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Summary

Anxiety disorders commonly begin during adolescence, and are characterized by deficits in the ability to inhibit or extinguish pathological fear. Recent research has provided new understanding of how fear is learned and can be regulated in the adolescent brain, and how the endocannabinoid system shapes these processes; however, these advances have not yet translated into improved therapeutic outcomes for adolescents with anxiety. This study will test whether a behavioral intervention, acute exercise, can help to improve fear regulation by enhancing brain activity and endocannabinoid signaling. This line of research may ultimately lead to more effect treatments for adolescent anxiety, and to new preventive strategies for at-risk youth.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

14 Years - 17 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

174

Start Date

2024-05-17

Completion Date

2028-04-30

Last Updated

2025-08-07

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Moderate Intensity Exercise

Participants randomized to the active (moderate intensity) exercise condition will complete a 3-minute warm-up at low speed on a treadmill. Speed and incline will be increased in 3-minute increments until moderate-intensity exercise, defined as participants staying within a zone of 60-80% AAMHR with the target being to attain and maintain 70-75% AAMHR while briskly walking and/or jogging depending on current fitness status, is reached for a total of 30 min.

Locations (1)

Tolan Park Medical Building

Detroit, Michigan, United States