Designing a Spatial Navigation Intervention Protocol Informed by Region-specific Brain Activation for Mild Cognitive Impairment
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
30 participants
Sep 15, 2026
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Summary
The goal of this one-arm clinical trial is to determine whether participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can successfully navigate a virtual reality (VR) maze. The VR maze is designed as a training tool aimed at improving participants' spatial navigation abilities. Main Aims: 1. To determine whether at least 70% of older adults enrolled in the study can complete twenty-four 50-minute training sessions over a 4-month period. 2. To assess whether combining virtual reality with EEG recordings can be used to measure brain activation and changes in brain activation associated with spatial navigation learning. Participants will: 1. Walk in an open, unobstructed space while wearing VR goggles. 2. Explore up to fifty different virtual mazes in sequence and attempt to find their way through each one.
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Interventions
A full-immersive virtual-reality environment where participants train ability to navigate and find their way through a maze in virtual reality has been developed. The virtual-reality environment is well-suited to maintain learner motivation throughout the intervention by providing appropriate challenges (i.e., maze complexity can be adjusted to the learner's progress), positive feedback (i.e., reaching the maze goal), and novelty (i.e., new mazes for each session). 50 different VR mazes, varying in difficulty from 1 to 4 intersections, have been built.
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NCT07225400