NCT05065151

Understanding Motivation in Parkinson's Patients Through Neurophysiology

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to better understand motivation and value-based decision-making in Parkinson's patients through neurophysiology using Medtronic's Percept DBS device. By combining behavioral tasks with neural recordings, the study seeks to uncover how DBS affects motivation, particularly in relation to effort, reward, and timing.

Detailed description

Participants will perform reward-based decision-making tasks designed to assess both self-benefitting and prosocial motivation. The tasks will evaluate how effort and reward influence decision-making, as well as how proximity to a deadline impacts choices. These tasks will be conducted in both clinic and home settings. Throughout the study, participants will remain on their regular dopaminergic medications. Each participant will complete sessions under two stimulation conditions: their usual DBS settings and with DBS turned off. Neural activity will be recorded using the Percept device, which enables real-time and chronic at-home data streaming. Additionally, participants will wear a device that captures movement, sleep, heart rate variability, and self-reported measures. The primary outcomes are behavioral: changes in reaction time, acceptance rate, and success rate across different DBS conditions. The secondary outcomes focus on identifying neural oscillatory biomarkers time-locked to specific decision-making events. By linking brain activity to motivational behavior, this study aims to advance our understanding of non-motor symptoms in PD and inform the development of adaptive DBS algorithms targeting these symptoms.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Motivation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Stimulation on	Stimulation from Percept DBS will be on while the patient is playing a decision-making game on a computer-based application.
OTHER	Stimulation off	Stimulation from Percept DBS will be off while the patient is playing a decision-making game on a computer-based application.
BEHAVIORAL	Decision Making Task	Patients will be playing a decision making task through a computer-based application.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-30
• Primary completion: 2030-12-01
• Completion: 2030-12-01
• First posted: 2021-10-01
• Last updated: 2025-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States