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Filter by:The dopamine agonists, pramipexole (Mirapex) and ropinirole (Requip), are drugs that are used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease. However, these drugs can induce bothersome leg swelling or edema in about 20 percent of patients. The cause of this edema is unknown but may be secondary to stimulation of peripheral dopamine receptors in the kidney or blood vessels. We hypothesise that a peripherally acting dopamine receptor antagonist, will reduce edema in PD patients. This study will assess the effect of the peripheral acting dopamine D2 receptor antagonist, domperidone as a potential treatment for dopamine agonist-induced leg swelling.
A phase II double blind trial to evaluate the effects of the AMPA, glutamte antagonist, topiramate on levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease
The major aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of a home-based treadmill walking program in improving walking capacity and quality of life in people with early mid-stage Parkinson's disease(PD).
Based on Parkinson's disease (PD)/vitamin B12 deficiency symptom overlap and PD patients' propensity to avoid protein (the dietary source of vitamin B12), this study proposes to prospectively investigate the vitamin B12 status of PD patients over time. In addition, this study will provide critical pilot data evaluating the efficacy of treating those patients considered to have below-normal vitamin B12 levels in serum. Further, it will also explore the concept that supplementing PD patients having "low-normal" vitamin B12 levels with vitamin B12 improves either the non-motor PD symptoms or homocysteine levels in PD patients receiving levodopa. Study Hypotheses: 1. Serum cobalamin (B12) concentrations in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are significantly lower than B12 concentrations in a) cohabiting spousal caregiver controls; and b) population-based, age-matched controls. 2. Supplementation with B12 in levodopa-treated PD patients with low (<200 pg/ml) or low-normal (200-300 pg/ml) serum B12 levels is associated with significant improvement in their non-motor symptoms and reduces total plasma homocysteine concentration [Hcy], a known biomarker for risk of dementia and cerebrovascular disease.
The purpose of the study is to explore the safety, tolerability and efficacy of Spheramine (cultured human retinal pigment epithelial cells on microcarriers) in Parkinson's Disease patients with advanced disease who have insufficient symptom control by optimum oral medication. Patients are randomized to receive Spheramine injections into both hemispheres or a sham surgical procedure in a ratio of 1:1. A three month pretreatment period must be completed prior to surgery. Time to endpoint is 24 months.
This is an, open-label, long-term safety extension for patients in North America who have completed the prior istradefylline study 6002-INT-001.
The study will assess the relative benefit of cabergoline vs carbidopa/levodopa therapy in treating nighttime problems of Parkinson Disease.
The DNA and Cell Bank of Instituts Federatifs de Recherche (IFR) of Neurosciences has been running for the last 15 years at the Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unit 679 (former unit 289). Since its creation, this structure has been the support of research projects in genetics for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The cohorts established have led to discoveries in monogenic disorders, such as cerebellar ataxias, spastic paraplegias, frontotemporal dementias, epilepsies, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related entities. The research projects based on the study of the genetic bases in Parkinson’s disease and epilepsies are especially developed for this grant. Concerning Parkinson’s disease, the project is based on the extension of the existing cohort throughout the French Parkinson’s Disease Study Group network. Concerning epilepsies, this project is the occasion to build this network with the constitution of a new cohort. The specific aims of the scientific projects are the following for Parkinson’s disease: - to evaluate the frequency, the nature and the phenotype associated with parkin mutations in familial or sporadic forms of the disease, according to the age at onset, and - to identify the genetic susceptibility factors in Parkinson’s disease with the study of affected sibpairs and with case/controls association studies. For epilepsies, the aims are: - to evaluate the frequency, the nature and the phenotype associated with SCN1A, SCNab and GABR2 gene mutations in familial or sporadic forms of the affection associated with febrile seizures, and - to search for an intervention SCN1A, SCN1B and GABRG2 as susceptible genes in these forms of epilepsies.
Parkinson’s disease is one of the most frequent neurodegenerative diseases, and for which the mechanisms remains unknown. Since the implication of susceptibility factors is highly suspect, we have recently shown that one monogenic form due to alterations in the Parkin gene was responsible for an important proportion of early onset familial and isolated cases. Nevertheless, it not has been determined yet the relationship between idiopathic Parkinson’s disease and secondary Parkinson’s disease with a Parkin gene mutation at the clinical, neuropsychological, metabolic and physiopathological levels. For establishing phenotype-genotype correlations, we propose to compare the phenotype of patients carrying a Parkin mutation (parkin « + », n=25) to those of early onset parkinsonians without a Parkin mutation (Parkin ” - ”, n = 25), and for some aspects (neuropsychological, behavioural and psychiatric evaluations) to the healthy brothers and sisters of Parkin cases “+”(n = 25). The evaluation will carry on the clinical aspects (quantification of the parkinsonian syndrome and reactivity to levodopa, neuropsychological, behavioural and psychiatric evaluations), molecular (types of abnormalities in the Parkin gene) and metabolic (PET – tomography by positron emission) of the disease. Parkinson’s disease caused by Parkin gene mutations is associated with an important and homogeneous loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta, which is different from those observed during the idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. The corresponding dopaminergic deficit should be associated with an excellent reactivity to levodopa, to a cognitive deficit and to behavioural and/or psychiatric attitudes, in relation with the massive alteration of dopaminergic efferences. This multidisciplinary approach on Parkin cases will be performed in the centers for of clinical investigations of Grenoble and Paris, with the help of the French Parkinson’s Disease Study Group, and two centers for TEP (Lyon and Orsay). This project will allow to a better definition of diagnostic criteria of Parkin « + » cases, which will help for the molecular diagnosis in early onset cases, and will study precisely the clinical, psychiatric and metabolic consequences of a massive and homogeneous dopaminergic denervation, which seems to be different of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.
Gait disorders and falls are frequent in patients with parkinsonian syndromes. In patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), these signs occurred later during the course of the disease in comparison to patients with other degenerative parkinsonian disorders. The pathophysiology of these symptoms are still not fully understood. Gait initiation challenges the balance control system as the body moves from an upright stable static posture to a continuously unstable gait. The aim of this study is to analyse the gait initiation process in patients with parkinsonian disorders.