ParkinStim: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Parkinson's Disease
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on patients with Parkinson's disease during sleep.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02125383
- Run by
- Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.
- People needed
- 9
- Starts
- 2014-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-03-10
Who can join
Age: 40 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) according to the UK PD brain bank criteria
- Hoehn and Yahr stage II-III when off anti-parkinsonian medication
- Able to provide informed consent
- Currently taking levodopa (300-800 mg per day)
- On stable regimen of anti-parkinsonian medication for at least one month before study entry and able to continue on a stable regimen for the duration of the study
- Presence of early morning akinesia
- Naïve to tDCS.
You may not qualify if…
- Children will be excluded from this study due to the fact that they are unlikely to have PD
- Significant medical or psychiatric illness, significant neurological disease other than PD, metal objects and/or deep brain stimulators in the head that might pose a hazard during tDCS
- Dementia, as evidenced by a score less than 26 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
- Significant depression (Geriatric Depression Scale score < 20)
- Presence of hallucinations
- Having undergone any surgical procedure for treatment of PD including deep brain stimulation (DBS), pallidotomy, thalamotomy, or other brain surgeries
- A history of seizures
- A known history of severe sleep apnea or sleep onset insomnia
- Skin diseases that could potentially cause irritations under electrodes
Where it is running
- Rush University Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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