Telecoached Exercise Intervention for Connectivity Enhancement in Small Vessel Disease (TELECONNECT-SVD)

Exclusion Criteria

• •Uncontrolled hypertension;
• •Heart disease impairing the possibility of safely following an exercise protocol at the discretion of the treating physician;
• •Primary or secondary epilepsy;
• •Prostheses, implants, and any device that might impair the performance of either high-density electroencephalogram or the exercise intervention;
• •Cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Examination score ≤26 at follow-up);
• •Lack of access to Internet-based facilities or poor technological alphabetization impairing the adherence to the trial protocol;
• •Any major physical or psychiatric comorbidity that in the judgement of the treating physician might compromise the ability to undergo an exercise intervention.