Active clinical trials for "Parkinson Disease"

The purpose of this study is to characterize the intestinal flora in subjects with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and to determine safety and trends in improvements in diversity of colonic microbiome following fecal microbiota transplantation.

The benefits of exercise for general health and wellbeing in older adults are well-established. Balance exercises such as tai chi and yoga, along with resistance training, can improve or maintain physical function in older adults and enhance muscle strength. Furthermore, aerobic activity is critical for maintaining and improving cardiovascular and functional health. Noncontact boxing has recently seen a surge in popularity among individuals with Parkinson's Disease (PD), with components of both aerobic and balance exercise. While participants anecdotally note improvements in stress and physical function, this has only been minimally studied. However, drawing on this experience and the combined aerobic, balance, and mindfulness practices that comprise karate, we hypothesize that participation in structured karate programs may offer similar or greater benefits. Specifically, the aim of this study is to test whether and to what degree a community-based karate class tailored for individuals with early- to middle-stage Parkinson's Disease (PD) 1) is feasible; and 2) improves objective and patient-reported outcomes.

The purpose of this prospective, within-subject randomized cross-over design study is to determine if a computer training program (Speed of Processing Training - SOPT) improves safe pedestrian behavior in patients with Parkinson's disease and in healthy older adults in a virtual reality pedestrian environment. Pedestrian injury poses significant risk to healthy older adults and patients with Parkinson's disease. Several age-related changes, including slowing of visual processing speed, increase risky pedestrian behavior. This study will determine if SOPT improves pedestrian behavior in patients with Parkinson's disease and healthy older adults and evaluate the persistence of the SOPT training effects.

This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacodynamics of ambroxol in participants with Parkinson Disease. Participants will administer ambroxol at five dose levels and will undergo clinical assessments, lumbar punctures, venepuncture, biomarker blood analysis and cognitive assessment throughout the course of the study.

The purpose of this study is to determine if changes in brain serotonin affects the accumulation of amyloid in the brain. The investigators will use brain imaging methods to measure the amount of serotonin and amyloid in the brain of individuals with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and otherwise healthy older people. PD participants will undergo repeat brain imaging to assess amyloid accumulation two years after their first brain imaging session. All participants will undergo examinations to assess their motor function, and asked questions to assess their mood and thinking.

Investigator have recently shown that Parkinson disease patients' with restless leg Syndrome have more frequent impulse control behavior in particular compulsive feeding that patients without Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). Investigator hypothesized that presence of RLS in parkinsonian patients could be a risk factor for the emergence of TCI or associated behaviors, occurring preferentially at night. The main objective of this study is to evaluate in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) the effect of the presence of a RLS on the evening compulsive eating behavior by studying the circadian modulation of food intake of patients with RLS and impulse control disorders. For this investigator conduct a prospective study, with 2 groups of Parkinson disease patients (with and without restless leg syndrome), to which investigator have to fill an agenda to know the schedule of the behaviors during the day and the night.

This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group, patient-blind, single-center phase I clinical trial of repeated once every 4 weeks administration by subcutaneous injection of AFFITOPE® PD01A, adsorbed to aluminium oxide in 30 patients with PD-GBA over a treatment period of 8 weeks. Patients will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio to two different treatment groups: A) 75 µg AFFITOPE® PD01A, adsorbed to aluminium oxide and B) placebo (= 1 mg aluminium oxide). Over a study duration of 52 weeks, each patient will receive 3 injections of AFFITOPE® PD01A or placebo during the participation in the clinical trial. Patients will either receive 75 µg AFFITOPE® PD01A adsorbed to 1 mg aluminium oxide or placebo (=1mg aluminium oxide). The treatment group consists of 20 PDGBA patients, the placebo group of 10 PDGBA patients. Male and female patients aged 40 to 80 years can participate in the trial. AFF010 is part of the project MULTISYN funded by the European Commission (FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1 project; N° HEALTH-F4-2013-602646).

Compares the patients' scores of UPDRS-III before and six-month after receiving deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease under MAC or AAA anesthesia.

This study will evaluate the safety and tolerability of ABBV-0805 in adult participants with Parkinson's Disease and results from it will help guide the design of future clinical studies. ABBV-0805 is administered every 28 days by intravenous (IV) infusion.

Empathy, defined as the ability to understand others emotions, is a fundamental concept in social interactions. It is a psychological phenomenon involving various separable components : (i) the ability to feel and imagine the emotions, (ii) the ability to adopt the perspective of other people. Several neurological diseases with behavioral disorders may lead to impaired processing of social and/or emotional informations. These pathologies are likely to induce a lack of empathy that may result from impairments at different levels. The objective is simply to study how others' emotions are understood and how this allows for regulation of personal behavior. This study is being carried out among patients seen for various health problems and who can make behavior changes. This study could help to understand some neurological diseases and thereby to identify them earlier and/or to better differentiate them.