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Filter by:50 participants with Parkinson's disease will be recruited to complete actigraphy studies to assess sleep disturbances. For this, participants will wear an Actigraph for seven days. Thirty of these participants with sleep disturbance, will go on to receive a tailored lighting intervention (TLI) to assess the effect on sleep, fatigue, and circadian entrainment via urinary melatonin levels.
The aim of this research is to verify the ability of counterfactual thinking about medical decisions in individuals affected by Parkinson's Disease when compared to healthy individuals.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether a smartwatch can measure the physical capacity of patients with Parkinson's Disease and COPD in the physiotherapy practice and at home.
Articulatory deficits are present in most speakers with dysarthria, which negatively impacts their speech intelligibility, yet little is known about the relationship between articulatory movement and speech intelligibility. This study will examine the relationship between articulation measures, both acoustic and kinematic, and their relationship to perceptual measures (i.e., speech intelligibility and articulation ratings) in 30 individuals with dysarthria secondary to Parkinson's disease and 30 neurologically healthy adults of the same age. The findings will have implications for behavioral management.
This is a study to evaluate Deep brain stimulation (DBS) burst-type electrical stimulation programming verses standard DBS programming. Burst-type DBS is defined as a novel stimulation protocol in which intermittent bursts of traditional high-frequency rectangular wave stimulation are delivered. Burst type DBS may improve the efficacy and durability of DBS pulse generator.
The main objective of the study is to evaluate the improvement in quality of life after deep brain stimulation surgery with frameless technique by comparing the PDQ-39 scale score at baseline (before surgery) and one year after surgery.
The main objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of 10 sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary motor cortex to reduce levodopa-induced dyskinesia
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the impact of the different types of pain and of the domains involved in the autonomic disorders of inpatients and outpatients diagnosed with Parkinson disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) admitted to Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri Centers. The main aims are: Evaluate the prevalence of pain and characterize it in Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms (MSA) Evaluate the effect of rehabilitation on pain and autonomic symptoms Evaluate the prevalence of autonomic symptoms in Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonisms (MSA) Assess the impact of pain and autonomic symptoms on quality of life. Participants will perform neurological examination, rehabilitation program and clinical scales. Researchers will compare the two groups of patients (PD and MSA) and the effect of the rehabilitation on pain, autonomic symptoms and quality of life.
In several neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, the progressive loss of neurons of monoaminergic systems leads to the development of characteristic clinical manifestations. Therefore, since the discovery that neurodegenerative phenomena are the basis of these Central Nervous System (CNS) diseases, re-innervation strategies have been studied that would allow to stop or at least slow down neurodegenerative phenomena, restoring lost catecholaminergic transmission. Cell therapy in Parkinson's disease aims to treat motor disorders, but should not affect cognitive disorders that result from pathological alterations external to CNS and affecting other transmission systems, such as noradrenergic and cholinergic. These limitations lead to the search for new approaches based on the use of different cell types, but currently these scenarios still seem far away. The theme of cerebral re-innervation in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases is at the center of numerous translational and clinical research studies, developed according to various approaches and models, which testify to all the complexity and charm of the subject. Among the possible sources for a catecholamine reinnervation in Parkinson's disease, Superior Cervical Ganglion (SCG) could represent a valid autologous source: however, there is no functional evaluation in the literature that expresses the involvement or not of the ganglion in the neurodegenerative process. This clinical study project is the first and essential phase of a larger project aimed at verifying the possibility of autologous catecholamine reinnervation in degenerative diseases of the CNS using the peripheral catecholamine system and in particular the superior cervical ganglion (GCS). The aim of this project is to evaluate whether the peripheral catecholaminergic system, and in particular the SCG, is involved in the process of neurodegeneration. For this purpose, for an "in vivo" functional study, the suitability of the PET-CT 68Ga-PSMA examination will be studied in particular.
The goal of this clinical trial study is to learn about the effect of aquatic exercise in parkinson's patients. The main questions it aims to answer are: - What is the effect of exercise in water on balance in parkinson's patients? - What is the effect of exercise in water on muscle strength in parkinson's patients? - What is the effect of exercise in water on flexibility in parkinson's patients? Parkinson's patients in this study will do some functional tests. One group of them will do exercises in water 3 times weekly for 8 weeks.