12 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
The first aim is to show balance training improves DCD individual's ability to compensate for their activity limitations, but does not impact disease progression. The second aim is to demonstrate aerobic exercise improves balance and gait in DCD persons by affecting brain processes and slowing cerebellar atrophy.
Ataxia, Spino Cerebellar Degeneration, Spinocerebellar Ataxias
The purpose of this study is to leverage two sources of real-world data (RWD) to assess the effectiveness of troriluzole after three years of treatment in patients with SCA by comparison to an external control of untreated patients who were followed in a natural history cohort. Real world evidence of effectiveness will be assessed from the RWD sources to examine the treatment effects of toriluzole in SCA out to 3 years. Progression rates of SCA differ by genotype and long-term follow-up is needed to assess for potential efficacy in this rare disease.
Spinocerebellar Ataxias
The purpose of this study is to create a repository for cerebellar ataxia and nucleotide repeat diseases in order to fully investigate the genetic and phenotypic presentations of both.
Spinocerebellar Ataxias, Cerebellar Ataxia, Nucleotide Repeat Disease
The purpose of the research is to better understand the motor behavior of individuals in health and disease. The specific purpose of this project is to identify if we can utilize a smartphone to diagnose different movement disorders and monitor their symptoms. A. Objectives 1. Estimate symptom severity of Essential tremor (ET), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), Primary focal dystonia (PFD), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), and Functional movement disorders (FMD) using a smartphone-based application 2. Differentiate individuals with the different movement disorders from healthy controls based on features from the smartphone data 3. Differentiate individuals with a specific movement disorder from people with other movement disorders based on features from the smartphone data B. Hypotheses / Research Question(s) We hypothesize that we can estimate the severity of symptoms using a smartphone application and that, using those estimates, we can differentiate individuals with movement disorders from healthy controls and from people with other movement disorders.
Essential Tremor, Parkinson Disease, Huntington Disease, Dystonia, Primary, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, Movement Disorders
The general purpose of this observational study is to examine biomarkers associated with the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases to potentially develop novel therapeutic approaches.
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Alzheimer Disease (AD), Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), Parkinsons Disease With Dementia (PDD), Transient Epileptic Amnesia (TEA), Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE), Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCA), HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
Measuring the various difficulties patients with spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) report in an accurate manner is important to be able to test any therapy that may be developed. As basic research identifies some therapy of this type, clinicians are planning studies that can either prove or disprove that such treatments actually have an effect. Walking problems and problems with eye movements that can give rise to visual complaints are common in the SCA's. Existing neurological scales such as the "SARA" are based on the usual neurological examination items that can carry a degree of subjective bias. Also the intervals between numbers on such scores often do not carry the same "weight" so that the difference between a score of 1 and 2 may not be equal to difference between 2 and 3. Lastly, such scales done in the clinic setting capture only a brief period of a patient's day. We propose that examination of home based gait monitoring, timed tests of motor function and quantitative measures of visual problems in patients with SCA are more useful in measuring the disability in these patients.
Spinocerebellar Ataxia
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of Power Plate vibration therapy on balance as measured by the NeuroCom Balance Master.
Somatosensory Disorders
OBJECTIVES: I. Clinically evaluate members from families with a dominantly inherited ataxia and collect blood, skin and muscle samples for detailed molecular studies. II. Perform detailed clinical evaluations on patients with recessively inherited ataxias.
Hereditary Ataxia
The aim of the research is to improve motor function in people with cerebellar ataxia by using neuroimaging methods and mental imagery to "exercise" motor networks in the brain. The relevance of this research to public health is that results have the potential to reduce motor deficits associated with cerebellar atrophy, thereby enhancing the quality of life and promoting independence.
Cerebellar Ataxia, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, Cerebellar Degeneration
The purpose of this study is to gather information on the possible symptoms that patients with atypical neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (also known as aTPP1 or atypical tripeptidyl peptidase deficiency) have and how they change over time.
Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis CLN2, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Autosomal Recessive 7
The first aim is to show aerobic training improves degenerative cerebellar patients functionally The second aim is to compare the effects of balance and aerobic training on degenerative cerebellar disease.
Ataxia, Spino Cerebellar Degeneration, Spinocerebellar Ataxias
This project will study the feasibility of motor rehabilitation in people with cerebellar ataxia using real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (rt-fMRI NF) in conjunction with motor imagery. To do so, data will be collected from healthy adults in this protocol, to be compared with data from cerebellar ataxia participants.
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