Status:

COMPLETED

EEG and Pharmacological Exploration of Executive Dysfunctions Induced by STN-DBS in PD

Lead Sponsor:

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Conditions:

Parkinson Disease

Eligibility:

All Genders

40-70 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) remarkably improves motor functions in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). However, growing evidence suggests that STN-DBS also causes e...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • For all right-handed participants :
  • Age between ≥ 40 and ≤ 70 years old ;
  • Weight between 45 and 95 kg
  • Without cognitive deterioration (MATTIS score \> 130) ;
  • Without orthostatic hypotension known;
  • Showing no contraindication to clonidine:
  • Hypersensibility known to clonidine or to an excipient of Catapressan
  • Depressed state
  • Severe bradyarrythmias due to a sinus node disease or atrioventricular block ventricular second or third degree ;
  • Treatment by sultopride;
  • Showing no contraindication to the placebo of clonidine : lactose intolerance;
  • Affiliated to a social security scheme or assimilated;
  • Not being the subject of a measure of legal protection;
  • Having consented to participate in the study and written inform consent.
  • Specific to right-handed parkinsonian patients :
  • Having an idiopathic Parkinson's disease Dopa-sensitive;
  • Treated with deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus since at least 3 months;
  • With stable antiparkinsonian treatment for at least 2 months and that it will be possible not to modified during the entire experiment;
  • Specific to right-handed healthy controls :
  • • Without a history of neurologic or psychiatric disease

Exclusion

  • For all the participants:
  • Having somatic medication treatment with a cerebral or psychic impact;
  • Presenting dependence and abuse to cannabis or to other addictive substance according to the DSM-IV-TR, with the exception of tobacco;
  • Already participating to another biomedical research except surgical project involving a new material of deep brain stimulation because in this case stimulation parameters and patients benefiting of it will be the same;
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women (diagnostic examination);
  • Subjects having, after reading questionnaires or after the medical examination, contraindication to EEG exam or to clonidine.
  • Specific to parkinsonian patients:
  • Having other neurologic or psychiatric associated pathology, notably depression;
  • Already participating to another biomedical research except surgical project involving a new material of deep brain stimulation because in this case stimulation parameters and patients benefiting of it will be the same;
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women (diagnostic examination); Subjects having, after reading questionnaires or after the medical examination, contraindication to EEG exam or to clonidine.
  • Specific to healthy subjects :
  • Already participating to another biomedical research;
  • Subjects who exceeded the annual compensation allowed for participation in research protocols;
  • Subjects with an inability to understand or carry out the study (language barrier, mental disability, obvious lack of motivation…) judged by the investigator

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2012

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

37 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01796483

Start Date

October 1 2012

End Date

June 1 2016

Last Update

May 28 2019

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Hospices Civils de Lyon Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer

Bron, France, 69677