Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Clinical Trial
Official title:
Dopamine Effect on Inhibitory Control
The effect of Levodopa medication on inhibitory control in Parkinson's patients is extremely debated despite the fact that this has potential clinical and therapeutic implications. A key confounding factor of many previous studies is that they did not take the disease duration in consideration. In fact, in moderate-to-advanced stages of Parkinson dopaminergic drugs could not produce a clear effect because too few dopaminergic cells for the drugs to operate on survived. Hence, in this study, we will compare the performance in the stop signal task in early-stage versus moderate-to-advanced stages Parkinson's patients both in ON and in OFF medication. In addition, to have a baseline measure of inhibitory control we will compare patient's performances with that of age-matched subjects.
The ability to stop a pending action is fundamental for survival in a natural environment where events cannot be fully predicted. Sudden events, such as the appearance of a physical obstacle, often require a quick change of the planned motor strategy and the first step toward this goal is to suppress the pre-programmed actions. Thus voluntary inhibition plays a crucial role in cognitive control and behavioral flexibility (1, 2). It has been shown that Parkinson's patients suffer from a specific deficit in this functions (3, 4, 5). However, it is extremely debated whether and how Levodopa medication (levodopa, dopamine agonists, anticholinergic drugs, or a combination of levodopa and an anticholinergic drug) affects response inhibition. A number of studies measuring inhibitory control via the stop signal task in Parkinson's patients seem to indicate that dopaminergic medications do not influence this executive function (5, 6, 7). However, a recent study (8) found that Levodopa medication does not affect specifically inhibitory control or movement readiness, but the balance between them. In fact, Parkinson's patients in the OFF medication state were able to maintain response latencies in the same range as healthy controls, but they showed a significant reduction in the ability to stop reactions abruptly. In contrast, patients' performance shifted significantly when taking dopaminergic medications. They move slower but stopping improved relative to the off dopamine state. This pattern suggests a role for dopamine in modulating the tradeoff between the two action control processes. In addition, studies of other specific populations and healthy adults suggest that dopaminergic medications deserve reconsideration in response inhibition. For instance, positron emission (PET) studies have found that higher levels of striatal D1 and D2/D3 receptor availability predict better performance on the stop signal task (9, 10) and that response inhibition performance evokes dopamine release in prefrontal, parietal, and temporal cortex in healthy adults (11). Even more importantly, a few recent studies provided evidence that early-stage Parkinson's patients with response inhibition impairment seem to benefit from dopaminergic treatment (12,13). Therefore, a plausible hypothesis is that the absence of a clear effect of dopaminergic medications could be ascribed to the fact that in most previous studies included Parkinson's patients in the moderate-to-advanced stages. In those patients, the diminished efficacy of dopaminergic drugs could be a consequence that too few dopaminergic cells for the drugs to operate on survived (14). Hence, the aim of the present work is to re-assess the impact of dopaminergic medications on inhibitory control on Parkinson's patients using a reaching version of the stop signal task (e.g. 4, 15, 16, 17, 18) taking the disease duration in consideration. To this aim, the investigators will compare the performance in the stop signal task in early-stage versus moderate-to-advanced stages Parkinson's patients both in ON and in OFF medication. Finally, to have a baseline measure of inhibitory control the investigators will compare patients' performances with those of age-matched subjects. ;
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