Active clinical trials for "Parkinson Disease"

This is a follow-up study to assess safety and clinical activity of continued AFFITOPE® PD01A vaccinations in patients with Parkinson's disease. Patients, who have already participated in AFF008 will be involved and will be receive one boost immunization with AFFITOPE® PD01A. One study site in Vienna (Austria) will be involved. In addition, up to 8 patients will be offered participation within an untreated control group.

This study will compare the effects of placebo and donepezil, a drug that helps conserve concentrations of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, on measures of balance and gait in subjects with Parkinson's disease (PD). This study is a double-blind, placebo controlled, cross-over randomized clinical trial. Short-latency afferent inhibition (SAI), a physiological index of cholinergic function will be measured to determine if the deficits in balance and gait correlate with abnormalities of the SAI and if SAI is altered by donepezil as a measure of drug efficacy. Cognitive tests like the Attention Network Test (ANT) will be administered to determine if changes in gait and balance are mediated by changes in attention. The results of this study will be the most direct test of the hypothesized role of cholinergic neurons and the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine in terms of gait and balance. The study is exploratory because it is not known whether donepezil will affect gait, balance or attention, nor which measures of gait, balance or attention will be sensitive to drug manipulation. The study's immediate goal is to determine the potential utility of cholinergic manipulation as a strategy for preventing or treating balance and gait dysfunction in PD. The findings of this trial are intended to lead to more sharply focused questions about the role of cholinergic neurons in balance and gait and eventually to Phase II B trials to determine clinical utility of cholinergic manipulation to prevent falls and improve mobility.

Only one study has evaluated the effect of TENS in LUTD in Parkinson's syndromes. It was reported at the congress of the "Société Interdisciplinaire Francophone d'UroDynamique et de Pelvi-Perinéologie" (SIFUD-PP) in 2011 by Ohanessian et al., and comprised 6 female patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) or multisystem atrophy (MSA), with overactive bladder. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, 20 minutes daily for 6 weeks, was associated with subjective improvement of LUTD assessed with the Patient Global Impression of Improvement (PGI-I) in 5 of the 6 patients. In view of the encouraging results of this pilot study, we hypothesize that TENS treatment may improve LUTD in patients with a Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinson's disease (PD) and multisystem atrophy (MSA).

This is a 105-week open-label study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ADS-5102 oral capsules, an extended release formulation of amantadine, in Parkinson's Disease (PD) patients with Levodopa Induced Dyskinesia (LID).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and tolerability of single oral rising doses of BIA 3-202 up to 800 mg (proposed doses 10 mg, 30 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 400 mg and 800 mg) in groups of 9 healthy male adult subjects, to characterise the preliminary pharmacokinetics of single rising oral doses of BIA 3-202 in healthy male adult subjects, to investigate the effects of single doses of BIA 3-202 on COMT activity in human erythrocytes and to investigate the effect of food on the pharmacokinetics of a single dose of BIA 3-202.

The major purpose of the Stage 1 is to study the safety and tolerability of the proposed dosage regimen of the study drug. The form of cannabidiol (CBD) used in this study is GWP42003, supplied by GW Pharmaceuticals. The dosage regime is based on their experience. This is an open label study in 10 subjects, during which the dose is gradually increased to the manufacturers recommended target dose, with tolerability being evaluated at each dose level. Based on the response of subjects in the Stage 1, a target dose is determined for the next stage. Standardized tools will be administered to study both tolerability and efficacy. Efficacy assessments are simply explorative, and are done to look for an effect that warrants specific or different evaluation in the next stage.

The purpose of this study is to the effect of three single oral doses of nebicapone (50 mg, 100 mg and 200 mg) on the levodopa pharmacokinetics when administered in combination with a single-dose of controlled release levodopa 200 mg/carbidopa 50 mg (Sinemet CR 200/50).

This is a two-center (University of Colorado, University of California San Francisco) community-based comparative effectiveness study of outpatient palliative care for Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders (progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), multiple systems atrophy (MSA), Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). In September 2018, the study was amended to also include Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related disorders (Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), Vascular Dementia). It will utilize a randomized stepped-wedge design to compare patient and caregiver outcomes between usual care in the community versus usual care augmented by palliative training and telemedicine support to provide other resources (e.g. social work).

The objectives of this study were to characterize the effects of food on the pharmacokinetics (PK) and tolerability of BIA 9-1067 in healthy male subjects.

This multiple ascending dose study is to determine safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity of PRX002 in approximately 60 patients with Parkinson's disease.