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Exogenous Effects of Standard Medical Care (Dopamine) on Motor Learning of an Upper Limb Task in Parkinson Disease

NCT02600858 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 23

Last updated 2018-02-22

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Summary

The study determines whether standard medical care (dopamine) affects learning and retention of an upper limb feeding task in people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and whether training on the feeding task generalises to performance on an untrained upper limb buttoning task. Half the participants will train on the feeding task after they have taken their first dose of dopamine for the day (i.e. "on" medication state), while the other half will train on the same feeding task before taking their first daily dose of dopamine (i.e. "off" medication state).

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Upper limb feeding training

Participants will spoon two raw kidney beans at a time from a center proximal "start" cup to three distal "target" cups positioned 16 cm away at 45°, 90° and 135° around the start cup as fast as possible using their non-dominant hand. Spooning two beans between the start cup and a target cup is considered one repetition; each trial will consist of 15 repetitions. Participants will perform 50 trials per day for 3 consecutive days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Lee Dibble, PhD · University of Utah

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-01-31
Completion
2017-01-31

Countries

  • United States

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