View clinical trials related to Parkinson Disease.
Filter by:The genetic landscape of Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterised by rare high penetrance pathogenic variants causing familial disease, genetic risk factor variants driving PD risk in a significant minority in PD cases and high frequency, low penetrance variants, which contribute a small increase of the risk of developing sporadic PD. This knowledge has the potential to have a major impact in the clinical care of people with PD. The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the impact of genetic mutation on behavior and cognition in PD patients. Patients will be assessed over time using test, questionnaire and standardised clinica scales. An initial assessment and annual follow-up assessments will be carried out for 5 years. Researchers will compare data collected from patients with genetic mutation versus patients without mutation.
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the long-term effect of DBS-STN on cognitive and behavioral outcomes in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. PD patients will be assessed over time using tests, questionnaires and standardized clinical scales. An initial assessment (T0) and annual follow-up assessments will be carried out for 5 years. Researchers will compare data collected from patients with DBS versus patients with best medical therapy.
The purpose of this study is to ascertain the functional profiles of the immune cells within the gastrointestinal tract and to determine how these cells contribute to autoimmune and neurologic diseases.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation to improve the single- and dual-task gait in patients with Parkinson's disease.
The primary goal of this study is to test whether 12 weeks of high-intensity aerobic exercise can treat fatigue in Parkinsons disease (PD). The study will be a randomized multi-site controlled trial with follow up. Clinically fatigued persons with PD will be allocated to either 12 weeks of high-intensity aerobic exercise or to a waitlist control group receiving high-intensity resistance exercise after 24 weeks of habitual lifestyle (control period). It is hypothesized that persons with PD receiving 12 weeks of high-intensity aerobic exercise will show superior effects on perceived fatigue (i.e., clinical relevant reductions) when compared to the PD control group (primary hypothesis), and that these effects are sustained after 12-weeks of follow up (secondary hypothesis).
The main aim of this study is to demonstrate how disorders characterized by different types of "inflexibility", cognitive-affective type for Anorexia nervosa and motor one for Parkinson's disease, have an impact on how emotional stimuli are processed and on the transition within emotional states.
The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the relationship between GBA mutation and cognitive stimulation treatment response in patients with Parkinson's disease. The main questions it aim to answer are: • assess whether the GBA mutation is associated with greater or lesser response to cognitive training treatment compared to a control group of PD patients without genetic mutations. • investigate the effect of cognitive stimulation program on behavioural aspects as secondary consequence induced by the possible improvement of cognitive abilities following treatment. Participants will be undergo to: - a neuropsychological evaluation describing their cognitive profile; - a genetic investigation and finally included in a cognitive stimulation programs according to regular clinical practice. Researchers will compare PD patients with GBA mutation and patients without genetic mutation to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive stimulation treatment.
Freezing of gait (FoG) is a complex symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) that cause falls and disability in PD patients, heavily affect patients' autonomy and quality of life. Gait disturbances and FoG are difficult to manage as they usually do not complete respond to both dopaminergic treatment and subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS). One therapeutic strategy suggested in literature for improving gait disturbances is to increase the dose of dopaminergic drugs according to the hypothesis of pseudo-ON-freezing. The pseudo-ON-FoG in patients treated with STN-DBS can easily occur as the result of a suboptimal stimulation or the consequence of a post-operative reduction of the dopaminergic therapy. Therefore, it is reasonable hypothesize both the increase of stimulation and levodopa as good therapeutic strategies to improve pseudo-ON-FoG. At present there are no evidence for suppose that one option is better than the other, even though two recent studies on gait analysis reported a positive additive effect of levodopa therapy on gait parameters in patients treated with STN-DBS. In this study, the investigators aim to objectively evaluating the improvement of FoG in PD patients treated with STN-DBS at different treatment conditions consisting of increased intensity of stimulation or higher dosage of levodopa.
A Phase 1, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of BMS-984923 administered orally twice daily (BID) for 28 days in participants with Parkinson's disease.
The purpose of this study is to examine physical activity and exercise behaviors in people with Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis over the course of 1-year using a cloud-based remote monitoring platform.