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Writing About Experiences and Health in Older Adults II

Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT05524597

Registry updated: 2026-10-15

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Description

UCLA researchers looking for healthy older adults (aged 65+) to participate in a study investigating how writing about experiences can affect your brain and body. Once a week for 6 weeks, participants will write about their experiences and fill out online questionnaires. Participants will also come to the UCLA campus to complete a neuroimaging session (fMRI), provide a blood spot sample, and fill out questionnaires 2 times: once prior to the 6-week writing period and once immediately after the 6-week writing period.

Interventions

Writing Intervention (Behavioral)
Participants will be asked to write about different kinds of experiences.

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Healthy adults age 65 years and older Exclusion Criteria: 1. current smokers 2. active, uncontrolled medical disorders 3. chronic infection (e.g., Hepatitis C, HIV) 4. use of certain medications (steroid use, opioid use) 5. psychiatric disorders (e.g., current major depression, bipolar disorder) 6. body mass index (BMI) greater than 35 7. left-handed 8. claustrophobic 9. metal in body Other exclusion criteria may apply.

Conditions

Social Psychology

Locations

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience — Los Angeles, California, United States

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