Basal Ganglia Local Field Potentials in Gait and Speech

Kai Bötzel

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Basal Ganglia Diseases

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01905995

BG EEG Munich

Details and patient eligibility

About

Electrid activity of the basal ganglia will be recorded with an implantable deep brain stimulation device (supplied by Medtronic Inc).

Study hypothesis is that these activities differ according to what the patient does, i.e. are different during gait and speech.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• good levodopa response

Exclusion criteria

• dementia

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease

Description:

no intervention - observational study