State Dependent Resonance in the BG-cortical Loops

Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Procedure: electrostimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00683566

2007-A01178-45

2007 36

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neuronal activity in circuits between the basal ganglia (BG) and motor cortical areas is abnormally synchronized and rhythmic. The oscillatory activity prevails at 8-30 Hz in untreated Parkinson's Disease (PD) and its amplitude at both subthalamic and cortical levels inversely correlates with motor impairment. Moreover, these different levels in BG-cortical loops are coherent in this frequency band. The 8-30 Hz activity is suppressed by treatment following treatment with dopaminergic drugs and is partially suppressed prior to and during voluntary movements. An unanswered question is how do BG-cortical loops become so prominently engaged in this oscillatory activity? One possible explanation is that the resonance frequencies of the loops fall in the 8-30 Hz band in the untreated state, so that oscillations in this band are transmitted particularly well. So we hypothesize loop resonances in the 8-30 Hz frequency band at rest, which should be suppressed during movement and following dopaminergic therapy.

Full description

Stimulate STN (at 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 70 and 130 Hz) in chronically implanted patients at rest and during simple and complex motor tasks while recording the steady state evoked potential over the cortex using EEG over the 19 sites of the classical 10/20 system and a channel to record artifact over the stimulator. Experiments will be carried out both in the OFF medication and ON medication condition.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson's disease idiopathic evolving for more than 5 years
• Electrodes of stimulation implanted in 2 nuclei under - thalamic in the service of functional and stereotaxic neurosurgery of the CHU La timone for at least 6 months
• Doped sensibility superior to 50 % (estimated by the section III of the score UPDRS)
• Efficiency of the stimulation superior to 30 % (estimated by the section III of the score UPDRS)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not verifying the criteria of inclusion
• Absence of data concerning the location of electrodes

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

A session in condition ON DOPAMINE and the other one in condition OFF DOPAMINE.

Treatment:

Procedure: electrostimulation