U.S., Dec. 23 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07295912) titled 'Cycling Interventions on Cognition in Children With Autism' on Dec. 04.
Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial was to determine if a specific type of cycling exercise improved executive functions in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (both boys and girls, aged 8-10 years, no healthy volunteers).
The main questions it addressed were:
1. . Did learning to ride a real bicycle improve planning, flexibility, working memory, and inhibition more than stationary cycling?
2. .Was the benefit driven by (A) dynamic balance, (B) spatial updating, or both?
Researchers compared four arms to identify if dynamic balance ...