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Using movement measurements to help identify Parkinson’s

Researchers analyse movement patterns to investigate whether they can distinguish Parkinson’s from other conditions at an early stage.

Learning by observing or collecting information · Study reference: NCT06161636

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Start (reported actual date)
2020-02-19
Main measurements finished (planned)
2028-12
Study finished (planned)
2028-12

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  • 2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Who can join?

Ages 50 years to 75 years · Also accepts healthy volunteers

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: all

Inclusion Criteria: * Being diagnosed with Parkinsonism including idiopathic Parkinson's disease or a related syndrome; * Have motor symptoms of Parkinsonism for 6 years or less; * Be a healthy volunteer subject in good general health with no prior neurological history; * Age between 50-75 years old; * If applicable, be able to safely leave home in the morning without having taken antiparkinsonian medication for the past 12 hours. Exclusion Criteria: * Major neurocognitive disorders; * History of other neurological conditions, such as ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, paralysis of a limb, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, orofacial dystonia, essential tremor; * History of oromandibular or laryngeal procedures; * Uncorrected deafness; * Any contraindication to pupillary dilation.
Full study name & original research details

Official study title

Contribution of the Kinematic Theory in the Early Differential Diagnosis of the Parkinson's Disease

Original description

The working hypotheses are as follows: #1 The processing of performance signals by automated lognormal segmentation and the extraction of the parameters of interest will make it possible to distinguish groups of patients from healthy elderly subjects. #2 The three instrumental approaches will not have the same degree of reliability as a predictive biomarker of clinical diagnosis established by consensus.

Further description from the registry

The strength of this study is to compares three refined parametric approaches drawn from functions mediated by very different neuromuscular programs (visually guided voluntary movement control to perform trajectories with the hand or arm versus vocal control) among two groups of patients and a healthy group. Its weakness lies in the lack of multimodal methods to accurately confirm clinical diagnosis and the predictive reliability of patient performance. These modalities are too costly to be included in this project. However, different oculovisual measurement standards such as optical coherence tomography, hyperspectral imaging (OPTINA Diagnostics Inc.), and eye tracking will be used at the School of Optometry, University of Montreal. There is indeed a remodeling of the retina and oculomotor changes in Parkinson's Disease (PD) and these non-invasive techniques, which have been accepted for several years, will be used in patients in support of their clinical diagnosis compared to normal subjects.

Conditions reported: Parkinson Disease; Healthy; Parkinsonian Syndromes

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Study type
Observational
Interventions
Not reported
Phases
Not reported
Sponsor
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Start date reported by registry
2020-02-19 (actual)

Registry updated: 2025-02-14 · Status last verified by the registry submitter: 2025-02

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Pierre Blanchet, MD · 514-890-8123 · pierre.j.blanchet@umontreal.ca

Study locations

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CHUM/Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Recruiting

Pierre Blanchet, MD · 514-890-8000 · pierre.j.blanchet@umontreal.ca

Facility not reported

Canada

Status not reported

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