- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05818189
Cortical Correlates of Gait in Parkinson's Disease: Impact of Medication and Cueing (cueing)
The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of a novel, personalized, tactile cueing system on gait automaticity. The researchers hypothesized that step-synchronized tactile cueing will reduce prefrontal cortex activity (improve automaticity) and improve gait variability (as well as gait speed). The researchers predict that improved automaticity with improved gait variability will be associated with increased activation of other than prefrontal cortical areas while walking (i.e., sensory-motor). To determine the effects of cueing, 60 participants with PD from will be randomized into one, of two, cueing interventions: 1) personalized, step-synchronized tactile cueing and 2) tactile cueing at fixed intervals as an active control group. In addition, the researchers will explore the feasibility and potential benefits of independent use of tactile cueing during a week in daily life for a future clinical trial.
This project will characterize the cortical correlates of gait automaticity, the changes in gait automaticity with cueing in people with Parkinson's Disease, and how these changes translate to improvement in gait and turning. The long-term goal is to unravel the mechanisms of impaired gait automaticity in Parkinson's Disease.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Cortical correlates of gait automaticity in Parkinson's disease: impact of cueing
A well-recognized hallmark of healthy walking is automaticity, defined as the ability of the nervous system to successfully coordinate movement with minimal use of attention-demanding, executive resources. It has been proposed that many walking abnormalities in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) are characterized by a shift in locomotor control from healthy automaticity to compensatory, executive control. This shift to less automaticity is potentially detrimental to walking performance as executive control strategies are not optimized for locomotor control, place excessive demands on a limited cognitive reserve, and continuously require attention. It has been hypothesized that as gait becomes more variable, as in people with Parkinson's Disease, control of gait is less automatic, i.e., requires more prefrontal cortex involvement. However, as gait variability is not a direct measure of automaticity, it is controversial whether it truly reflects impaired gait automaticity or impaired gait stability (i.e., dynamic balance). The recent development of wireless, functional, near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of the brain provides more direct, physiological measures of automaticity, such as reduced prefrontal cortex activity. However, the contribution of other cortical areas to the concept of gait automaticity is largely unknown. Here, for the first time, the researchers will use a full cap fNIRS system to monitor cortical activity in multiple brain areas and wearable, inertial sensors to determine how cognitive abilities, levodopa, and cueing influence gait automaticity.
The effects of cognitive dysfunction and interventions on gait in people with Parkinson's Disease are complex. Impaired executive function has been associated with impaired gait and balance in PD, but it is not known if this relationship is due to the inability to compensate for poor basal ganglia control of gait automaticity with increased prefrontal cortex activity while walking. Sensory cueing may increase gait speed and reduce prefrontal activity but unlike levodopa, it may result in reduced gait variability due to enhanced automaticity. The researchers recently developed a novel type of personalized (triggered by the subject's own walking pattern), step-synchronized tactile stimulation on the wrists to improve the quality of gait and turning in people with Parkinson's Disease. The researchers will now compare the effects of cognitive dysfunction, dopaminergic medication, and tactile cueing on the quality of gait and turning and investigate whether improvements reflect changes in prefrontal activity.
This project will characterize the cortical correlates of gait automaticity, the changes in gait automaticity with cueing in people with PD, and how these changes translate to improvement in gait and turning. The long-term goal is to unravel the mechanisms of impaired gait automaticity in Parkinson's Disease.
The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of a novel, personalized, tactile cueing system on gait automaticity. The researchers hypothesized that step-synchronized tactile cueing will reduce prefrontal cortex activity (improve automaticity) and improve gait variability (as well as gait speed). We predict that improved automaticity with improved gait variability will be associated with increased activation of other than prefrontal cortical areas while walking (i.e., sensory-motor). To determine the effects of cueing, 60 participants with PD from will be randomized into one, of two, cueing interventions: 1) personalized, step-synchronized tactile cueing and 2) tactile cueing at fixed intervals as an active control group. A secondary analysis will explore whether the effect of cueing on gait automaticity is influenced by cognitive dysfunction. In addition, we will explore the feasibility and potential benefits of independent use of tactile cueing during a week in daily life for a future clinical trial.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Martina Mancini, PhD
- Phone Number: 5034182600
- Email: mancinim@ohsu.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Pablo Burgos, PhD
- Phone Number: 9713314101
- Email: burgosp@ohsu.edu
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's Disease from movement disorders neurologist with the United Kingdom Brain Bank criteria of bradykinesia with 1 or more of the following - rest tremor, rigidity, and balance problems not from visual, vestibular, cerebellar or proprioceptive conditions
- Without musculoskeletal or peripheral or central nervous system disorders (other than PD) that could significantly affect their balance and gait
- All subjects will be capable of following directions for the protocols and to give informed consent.
- Hoehn & Yahr Levels II-III.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe dyskinesia that may affect quality of fNIRS.
- Major musculoskeletal or neurological disorders, structural brain disease, epilepsy, acute illness or health history, other than Parkinson's Disease, significantly affecting gait and turning i.e., peripheral neuropathy with proprioceptive deficits (detected as lack of toe proprioception assessed during the neurological exam at Day 1), musculoskeletal disorders, vestibular problem, head injury, stroke.
- Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA) score < 21 or dementia that precludes consent to participate or ability to follow testing procedures
- Inability to stand or walk for 2 minutes without an assistive device.
- Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease exclusion criteria: Parkinson plus syndromes such as progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, or corticobasal syndrome or implanted electrodes for deep brain stimulation (DBS), possible vascular parkinsonism, current use of dopamine-blocking agents or cholinesterase inhibitor (as may affect Prefrontal cortical activity while walking).
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Triple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Personalized cueing
Personalized, step-synchronized tactile cueing, enhancing proprioceptive inputs, in the form of real-time, closed-loop tactile feedback signaling left and right stance times while walking
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We will use as an external cue, a system of tactile cueing with the purpose of enhancing proprioceptive inputs, in the form of real-time(synchronized to the gait heel strike), closed-loop tactile feedback signaling left and right stance times while walking.
Also, the participants use the same system cueing in closed-loop feedback during daily life for one week.
Other Names:
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Active Comparator: Fixed cueing
Tactile cueing at fixed intervals, enhancing proprioceptive inputs, in the form of open-loop tactile feedback (fixed rhythm) signaling left and right stance times while walking
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We will use as an external cue, a system of tactile cueing with the purpose of enhancing proprioceptive inputs, in the form of real-time, open-loop(fixed rhythm) tactile feedback signaling left and right stance times while walking.
Also, the participants use the same system cueing in open-loop feedback during daily life for one week.
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Prefrontal cortex activity
Time Frame: 1 day
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The automaticity of the gait will be measured by the mean of the Prefrontal Cortex activity recorded by an fNIRS system (Artinis Octamon)
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1 day
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Sensory, motor and occipital cortex activity
Time Frame: 1 day
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By mean a full cap fnirs device we will estimate the activities of the cortex in the motor, sensorial and parietal regions during 2 minutes of recording during gait, and during turning.
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1 day
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Gait Variability
Time Frame: 1 week
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Using 6 Opals of the system mobility lab, we will compute the stride time variability
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1 week
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Gait speed
Time Frame: 1 week
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Using 6 Opals of the system mobility lab, we will compute the gait speed
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1 week
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Turning duration
Time Frame: 1 week
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Using 6 Opals of the system mobility lab, we will compute the turning duration
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1 week
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Turning jerkiness
Time Frame: 1 week
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Using 6 Opals of the system mobility lab, we will compute the turning jerkiness as a metrics of smoothness of motion.
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1 week
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Study Chair: Patty Carlson-Kuhta, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University
Study record dates
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Study Completion (Estimated)
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- R01HD110389 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
- SAP
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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