Parkinson's disease
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Healthy individuals: o Perceived healthy o Age >= 18 years, age- and sex-matched with PD patients without FOG for case-control study o Right-handed according to the Annett Handedness scale o Written informed consent All PD Patients: o able to walk properly (Hoehn & Yahr scale: Stage 2-3) o PD diagnosis according to the UK Parkinson*s Disease Society Brain Bank criteria (A.J. Hughes, 1992) o Age =1 on (Dutch translation of) Giladi*s FOG questionnaire (Giladi et al., 2000) or presence of FOG on clinical examination during rapid bidirectional 360 degree turns and dual tasking (Snijders et al., 2012)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: All participants • Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) score
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measures of cortico-cortical, cortico-muscular and musculo-muscular coupling (derived from dynamic coherence analysis) during the different tasks, compared between patients with and without FOG and controls. In addition, measures of gait such as step duration, gait velocity and walking rhythm during the different tasks, compared between patients and controls. | — |
Countries
Netherlands