View clinical trials related to Parkinson Disease.
Filter by:The objective of this study is to validate a diagnostic tool severity of these common non-motor manifestations, disturbing and little recognized as a self-questionnaire. This assessment tool used on different subgroups of patients (free from any treatment at an early stage of the disease and the stage of motor complications) will better understand the natural history of the non-motor fluctuations (FNM)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of dual-mode non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) with high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the primary motor cortex of the lower leg and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex compared with rTMS alone in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) with freezing of gait (FOG).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the change in subject's condition according to the Investigator's Global Assessment of Change after three months of treatment with 50 mg opicapone once daily in a heterogeneous patient population reflecting daily clinical practice.
This is a study to determine the safety and tolerability of a new medicine (RQ10) for gastrointestinal symptoms in Parkinson's disease. The investigators will also begin to look at the effect of this medicine on gastrointestinal problems. The results will determine if future studies are appropriate. In this study, RQ10 will be compared to a placebo (a look-alike inactive substance). Participation will include multiple office visits. Approximately 48 people will participate.
This project will evaluate the utility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) as an adjunctive method to improve early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Two populations will be evaluated in this study: 1) Individuals with uncertain PD diagnosis who receive a DaTscan, and 2) individuals with well characterized PD and healthy controls, drawn from the fully enrolled Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) PD and control cohorts.
The primary objective is to characterize the programming effects of Boston Scientific Vercise™ PC System using the DBS Directional Lead for bilateral STN DBS for the treatment of Parkinson's disease in acute and chronic settings.
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of two different multiple-dose regimens of nebicapone in comparison to placebo and entacapone 200 mg on the pharmacokinetics of levodopa in Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients.
Maintaining a healthy diet and engaging in routine physical activity may help decrease severity of symptoms, prevent secondary conditions, and slow functional decline in people with disabling neuromusculoskeletal conditions. However, people with these conditions face many health barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors. With the advent of portable technologies, such as smart phones, tablets and PDAs, there is a need to explore whether these technologies can help people with disabling conditions to stay motivated and overcome barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors.
Essential tremor (ET) is the most frequent movement disorder. Its prevalence is about 1/200 implying that at least 300 000 peoples are concerned in France. Its frequency increase with age (14% of patients 65 yo). The diagnostic criteria are postural and kinetic tremor that can be associated with head/voice tremor. ET induces a social impairment but also difficulties to perform any task requiring dexterity. With time, tremor can be so severe that every activity of daily living is impaired with loss of autonomy. Treatment such as betablockers, primidone or antiepileptics might have some efficacy at the beginning. But as the severity of the tremor increases, there is lack of efficacy. Deep Brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus can be proposed. However, in case of medical or surgical contra-indication, Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery thalamotomy can be an alternative option. Patients will be included with a minimum of 12 months after having the first thalamotomy (Gamma Knife 1) (done on the most annoying side) subject to no significant deterioration in cognitive assessment, voice assessment and balance and postural assessment or neuroradiological abnormality. Patients will be assessed with Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) cerebral, clinical assessment (tremor rating scale) impairment of activity of daily living, neuropsychological evaluation, voice assessment and balance and postural assessment. The second thalamotomy (Gamma Knife 2) will be proposed and a monitoring at M6 and M12 will be done. This study will demonstrate the feasibility and tolerance of bilateral GK radiosurgery thalamotomy in ET patients with severe impairment.
This study investigates the feasibility of a cognitive strategy training intervention for people with Parkinson disease (PD). We plan to recruit 8 non-demented PD participants to complete 6 weekly treatment sessions and Pre- and Post-testing (8 sessions total, entire study duration per participant = 8 weeks). We will measure participant responsiveness and the overall efficiency of the intervention process.