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| R01NS124563 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) | NIH |
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The investigators are investigating the brain activity associated with sensory information in movement disorders in order to improve treatment of these symptoms beyond what is currently available.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the functional role of the human basal ganglia in the sensorimotor system. In particular, the investigators are interested in the possibility that the basal ganglia participate in "filtering out" sensory stimuli that are irrelevant to the current behavioral goal. Additionally, the investigators are interested in how this type of sensorimotor processing in these brain areas is related to the severity of movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.
To do this, the investigators will study both healthy individuals and Parkinson's disease patients undergoing routine deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. During the surgery, investigators will place the DBS electrode as routinely performed and additionally place an extra, temporary "strip" electrode along the surface of the brain. Participants will then perform a short behavioral task testing sensorimotor function while investigators record the neural signals from these electrodes. The task will involve the delivery of sensory stimuli (visual, vibrotactile, electrical, and/or proprioceptive), to which the participant will be asked to perform a certain motor response. In order to fully measure the variables of interest, investigators will also attach small stickers (electrodes) to the skin of areas involved in movements for measuring muscle activity (such as the face and limbs), and may attach small, noninvasive devices around the wrist, finger, or arm (e.g., accelerometers) that measure position. The investigators may also apply EEG electrodes to the scalp to measure global brain activity or place a microphone in front of the subject to record speech.
In addition to recording this baseline brain activity, the investigators will evaluate whether deep brain stimulation and dopaminergic medication alters the recorded activity and task performance. Typical deep brain stimulation involves administering specific parameters of high-frequency electrical pulses to achieve clinical benefit. Routine operations involve testing these parameters in the OR in awake patients. For this study, investigators will administer either this high-frequency stimulation or various other patterns of stimulation (e.g., low-frequency, burst stimulation) and measure the changes in behavior and brain activity. As a method of validation, the investigators will also deliver paired pulses of stimulation that enable analysis of stimulation-evoked activity.
Finally, the investigators will correlate recorded brain activity with measures of participants' individual disease severity.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Patients | The investigators will seek to enroll people with Parkinson's disease (PD) who have been approved for deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS) as part of their routine clinical |
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| Healthy controls | The investigators will seek to enroll a cohort of age- and sex-matched healthy individuals to act as a control group. This group will NOT undergo DBS surgery |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Intraoperative Behavioral Testing | Diagnostic Test | During DBS surgery, tasks will be administered via a tablet PC or mounted monitor, and the subject may hold a response box, joystick, or dynamometer to record responses. During task periods, sensory stimuli will be delivered to the participant, who may be asked to perform a motor behavior in response. Stimuli will consist of audiovisual cues presented on a computer screen, vibration applied to specific parts of the body via a tactor, mild electrical pulses delivered through the skin of specific parts of the body via the attached EMG electrodes, and/or a movement of the arm or joint. Motor responses will consist of simple movements such as finger-tapping or hand-opening, or use of a joystick or dynamometer to move a computer cursor on the screen. Participants may be asked to respond only to a particular sensory stimulus and ignore others, in order to modulate the relevance of each stimulus to the task. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Kinematic response to stimulus (intraoperative) | Arm movements (hand position, velocity) recorded following stimulus onset, measured by joystick outputs. | Intraoperative |
| Kinematic response to stimulus (postoperative) | Arm movements (hand position, velocity) recorded following stimulus onset, measured by joystick outputs. | 1 month post-op |
| Latency of response to stimulus (intraoperative) | Time from stimulus onset to start of motor response, measured by electromyography (EMG) | Intraoperative |
| Latency of response to stimulus (postoperative) | Time from stimulus onset to start of motor response, measured by electromyography (EMG) | 1 month post-op |
| Neural response to stimulus | Brain activity recorded following stimulus onset, measured by local field potentials recorded from the electrocorticography (ECoG) and DBS electrodes. | Intraoperative |
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Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) who have been approved for deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS) as part of their routine clinical care, as well as healthy controls with no known movement disorder diagnoses
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Zachary Irwin, PhD | Contact | (205) 934-6704 | zirwin@uabmc.edu |
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| Zachary Irwin, PhD | The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital | Recruiting | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D010300 | Parkinson Disease |
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| D020734 | Parkinsonian Disorders |
| D001480 | Basal Ganglia Diseases |
| D001927 | Brain Diseases |
| D002493 | Central Nervous System Diseases |
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| Behavioral Testing | Diagnostic Test | In the lab, tasks will be administered via a tablet PC or mounted monitor, and the subject may hold a response box, joystick, or dynamometer to record responses. During task periods, sensory stimuli will be delivered to the participant, who may be asked to perform a motor behavior in response. Stimuli will consist of audiovisual cues presented on a computer screen, vibration applied to specific parts of the body via a tactor, mild electrical pulses delivered through the skin of specific parts of the body via the attached EMG electrodes, and/or a movement of the arm or joint. Motor responses will consist of simple movements such as finger-tapping or hand-opening, or use of a joystick or dynamometer to move a computer cursor on the screen. Participants may be asked to respond only to a particular sensory stimulus and ignore others, in order to modulate the relevance of each stimulus to the task. |
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| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D009069 | Movement Disorders |
| D000080874 | Synucleinopathies |
| D019636 | Neurodegenerative Diseases |