Status:

COMPLETED

Visual Selective Attention in Parkinson's Disease

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Grenoble

Conditions:

Visual Attention in Parkinson's Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

21+ years

Brief Summary

Parkinson's disease (PD), which is generally considered to be a motor disorder, is now known to be accompanied in many instances by a variety of cognitive defects. This can be explained considering th...

Detailed Description

Study Model: parallel-groups study. Three groups of subjects will be enrolled for the study: 2 groups of PD patients (see for details the section groups/cohorts), and a group of healthy controls.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • PD patients and healthy controls will be matched for age, sex, and education. PD patients: group #1 e group #2
  • Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease at a disease's stage characterized by motor complications
  • Able to tolerate a prolonged condition without medication
  • Levodopa response \> 30% (for group #1)
  • Self-declared normal or corrected to normal vision
  • At least one contact lead in the sensorimotor part and another contact in the associativelimbic part of the STN (for group #2).
  • Patients with a healthy social security affiliation
  • Able to give and sign the informed consent

Exclusion

  • Patients under guardianship, interdicted, or under administrative measures and legal constraints
  • Fertile women not using adequate contraceptive methods
  • Women who are pregnant or breast feeding
  • Severe cognitive impairment
  • Severe frontal executive functions impairment
  • Actual psychotic disorders
  • Major depression
  • Motivation impairment
  • Any medical or psychological problems which may interfere with a smooth conduction of the study protocol
  • Significant deficiency in red-green color discrimination
  • Drug or alcohol addiction
  • Healthy controls: group #3
  • Inclusion Criteria:
  • Self-declared neurologically healthy subjects,
  • Self-declared normal or corrected to normal vision
  • No psychotropic or neurotrophic drugs intake
  • Subjects with a healthy social security affiliation
  • Able to give and sign the informed consent

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2009

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

36 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01135407

Start Date

October 1 2009

End Date

July 1 2010

Last Update

November 22 2010

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Unité des Troubles du Mouvement, Clinique de Neurologie, Grenoble University Hospital

Grenoble, France, 38043