Diagnosis and Natural History Study of Patients With Neurological Conditions

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Multiple System Atrophy; Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Disease; Dementia; Movement Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00001549

960009

96-N-0009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to improve understanding of neurological conditions. Patients participating in this study will continue receiving medical care, routine laboratory tests, and diagnostics tests (X-rays, CT-scans, and nuclear imaging), from their primary care physician. Doctors at the NIH plan to follow these patients and offer advice and assistance to their primary care physicians.

Full description

The objective of this protocol is to provide diagnosis and follow Experimental Therapeutics Branch (ETB) patients not currently entered on another research protocol. No investigational treatments will be administered on this protocol, and the NIH physicians will be playing largely a consultative role to the patient's primary physician.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Patients may be included on this protocol if they have an identifiable neurological disorder or represent a diagnostic puzzle. These disorders would include patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, restless legs syndrome, other cognitive and movement disorders, and diagnostic puzzles.

Patients 18-90 years of age, inclusive, are eligible.