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Imaging in the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease and Essential Tremor

NCT01446939 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2012-10-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Parkinson´s disease (PD) diagnosis is based upon clinical examination. Although imaging has helped doctors to identify many diseases, it still does not add too much information for the diagnosis of Parkinson´s disease. The investigators are going to perform a large sample study including PD patients, essential tremor and healthy volunteers in order to evaluate if MRI can help in the diagnosis. Our hypothesis is that fractional anisotropy (FA) in the caudal portion of substantia nigra is decreased in PD patients.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Edson Amaro Junior, MD,PhD · Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

  • Claudia C Leite, MD, PhD · Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-07-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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