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| 1UG3NS140730-01 | 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 purpose of this study is to test a new way to treat Parkinson's disease (PD). Subjects will be implanted with deep brain stimulator (DBS) devices and electrodes placed under the scalp.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
Researchers will compare study derived adaptive DBS settings to subject's clinically programmed continuous DBS settings to see which is better at treating patients PD symptoms.
Parkinson's disease (PD) affects 1% of people over 60 years old, is highly disabling and represents a large economic burden. Therapeutic options include dopaminergic replacement and conventional DBS (cDBS) for advanced disease. However, cDBS therapy is currently unresponsive to the dynamic clinical states of patients, resulting in suboptimal control of symptoms during the day. Adaptive DBS (aDBS) seeks to solve this through personalized dynamic modulation of stimulation according to neural signals. Early studies of aDBS (completed by Drs Little, Starr and other research groups) provide proof-of-principle that aDBS can improve motor symptoms and reduce side-effects. Our team has also tested fully embedded, chronic naturalistic aDBS in a randomized, blinded study to show improvements in daytime motor symptoms and quality of life compared to cDBS. Further, the investigators have also recently validated sleep stage specific Non Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) aDBS, that increased cortical slow waves (linked to slowed disease progression). However, full leveraging of these highly promising therapies is currently limited by: 1) Lack of practical (minimally invasive) methods for chronic cortical recordings. 2) Complexity of programming aDBS due to a large parameter space. 3) Fluctuations in neural signals on multiple time scales, including circadian changes and long-term non-stationarity of signals. Our long-term goal is to advance aDBS from specialist research laboratories to real-world clinics through efficient, scalable implementation with the following advances: 1) Reduce risk and complexity of chronic cortical sensing by placing cortical leads in the subgaleal space rather than inside the cranium. 2) Utilize machine learning (ML) and data-driven biomarker and optimization techniques to minimize aDBS programming complexity. 3) Optimize aDBS across the full 24hr cycle - including sleep, with methods for long-term updating of aDBS settings. The study device will be the rechargeable, sensing and aDBS enabled, newly commercially available Medtronic Percept RC DBS system; connected to subgaleal frontal cortex leads and to directional basal ganglia leads. Our UG3 stage will support regulatory approval for Percept RC subgaleal aDBS. In UH3-
1, the investigators will implant 24 PD patients, optimize cDBS, and identify subgroups for daytime and nighttime aDBS. In UH3-2 the investigators will obtain in-clinic and at-home daytime naturalistic neural recordings and perform a blinded evaluation of data-driven chronic aDBS versus cDBS, for treatment of daytime motor fluctuations. In UH3-3, the investigators will obtain in-clinic (sleep lab) and at-home nighttime naturalistic recordings and perform a blinded evaluation of chronic sleep aDBS versus cDBS, to improve NREM sleep duration and increase slow wave amplitude. The investigators anticipate that these techniques will be the basis for a simple "turnkey" aDBS controller, to enable widespread, simple, scaleable and personalized aDBS for the full 24 hr cycle in PD, and provide a rational foundation for adaptive neuromodulation in other neurological and psychiatric diseases.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Nighttime adaptive DBS programming | Experimental | The patient will undergo at-home blinded testing of the single power band N2/3 sleep stage aDBS (e.g 75% & 125% conditions, levels chosen for each subject by the clinician or by the study team using data analysis) versus cDBS. Initially the patient will complete ~2 months (60 nights) of randomized, blinded, single night trials of aDBS at lower amplitude (e.g. 75%; 20 nights), aDBS at higher amplitude (e.g. 125% 20 nights) versus cDBS 100% (20 nights) to detect efficacy at the single subject level in independent N-of-1 trials. Stimulation amplitudes will be personalized and selected for tolerability and by searching for amplitudes that impact sleep physiology during the setup phase. Formal final testing will be completed in randomized, counterbalanced condition blocks. Patients will be in cDBS mode during the daytime and will perform a blinded switch to either cDBS or aDBS in the evening before going to sleep (or using the scheduling app). |
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| Daytime adaptive DBS Programming | Experimental | Investigators will conduct a blinded, randomized comparison between the effects of aDBS and clinically optimized cDBS on motor signs and symptoms. Both stimulation conditions will be applied for 1 day, in blocks of 2 days that are randomized and counterbalanced for over 40 days in patients' homes. Patients will be in cDBS mode overnight and will perform a blinded switch to either cDBS or aDBS in the morning on waking (these will appear to the patient as programs C and D). Investigators will utilize patients' daily symptom diaries and wearable data. They will ask patients to complete the symptom diary (an electronic questionnaire) every night before bedtime. This focuses on the total number of hours spent with symptoms, severity, and a quality of life (QoL) score validated for daily assessment of health-related QoL (EQ-5D). Evaluated symptoms include the most bothersome and opposite symptom as well as a range of common motor symptoms including bradykinesia, dyskinesia, tremor, etc... |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Medtronic Percept Deep Brain Stimulation (cDBS) | Device | Using the Percept pulse generator, patients receive clinically-optimized open loop stimulation to the subthalmaic nucleus. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in number of bothersome movement and/or sleep episodes on adaptive deep brain stimulation compared to open-loop deep brain stimulation | Troublesome movement and/or sleep episodes will be detected using validated home wearable devices along with participant self-reporting. | Baseline, aDBS testing, and during Blinded Assessment |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in MDS-UPDRS III scores | Change in Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) III score. The scale consists of 18 items that are each scored 0 to 3, making the total score out of 72 points, with higher scores indicating higher impairment. | Baseline, aDBS testing, and Blinded Assessment |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Clinical Research Coordinator | Contact | 5175152739 | sebastian.liu@ucsf.edu | |
| Research Manager | Contact | sarah.wang@ucsf.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Simon Little | University of California, San Francisco | Principal Investigator |
| Philip Starr | University of California, San Francisco | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of California San Francisco | Recruiting | San Francisco | California | 94158 | United States |
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Blinded assessment phase for participants to compare study study-derived adaptive deep brain stimulation to clinically programmed continuous deep brain stimulation
| Open-loop continuous deep brain stimulation | Active Comparator | Participants with Parkinson's disease implanted with Percept and receiving open-loop deep brain stimulation. |
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| Medtronic Percept Deep Brain Stimulation (daytime aDBS) | Device | Using the Percept pulse generator, patients receive daytime adaptive stimulation to the subthalmaic nucleus. |
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| Medtronic Percept Deep Brain Stimulation (nighttime aDBS) | Device | Using the Percept pulse generator, patients receive nighttime adaptive stimulation to the subthalmaic nucleus. |
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| Change in Total Electrical Energy Delivered (TEED) |
Change in TEED calculated using voltage, frequency, pulse width, and impedence values from participant pulse generators, with adaptive compared to open-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS). TEED is measured in microjoules. |
| Baseline, aDBS testing, and Blinded Assessment |
| ID | Term |
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| D010300 | Parkinson Disease |
| ID | Term |
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| D020734 | Parkinsonian Disorders |
| D001480 | Basal Ganglia Diseases |
| D001927 | Brain Diseases |
| D002493 | Central Nervous System Diseases |
| D009422 | Nervous System Diseases |
| D009069 | Movement Disorders |
| D000080874 | Synucleinopathies |
| D019636 | Neurodegenerative Diseases |
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| ID | Term |
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| D046690 | Deep Brain Stimulation |
| ID | Term |
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| D004599 | Electric Stimulation Therapy |
| D013812 | Therapeutics |
| D013514 | Surgical Procedures, Operative |
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