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Effects of deep brain stimulation on eye movements

Conditions
eye movement disorders
10029301
Registration Number
NL-OMON36854
Lead Sponsor
Medisch Universitair Ziekenhuis Maastricht
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
36
Inclusion Criteria

*Patients (age: 40 - 80) have Parkinson*s disease, essential tremor, Dystonia or Tourette Syndrom treated with DBS.
*The surgery took place at least 3 months prior to this eye movement study without complications.

Exclusion Criteria

*Patients with other disease than the above mentioned
*Intraocular disease such as macular degeneration
*Strabismus
*Deformities of the eye bulb
*Minors and incapacitated patients

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational non invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>1) saccades:<br /><br>a. latency: time between the onset of the target (i.e. the point of light) and<br /><br>the beginning of the eye movement.<br /><br>b. accuracy of saccadic eye movements: final eye position over the final<br /><br>position of the point of light<br /><br><br /><br>2) smooth pursuit:<br /><br>max. speed of the eye over the speed of the point of light at 0.2 Hz & 0.4 Hz<br /><br><br /><br>3) gaze-holding functioning:<br /><br>fixation nystagmus while looking straight ahead, left, right, up and down<br /><br><br /><br>4) head impulse test:<br /><br>max. speed of the eye over the max. speed of the head in the opposite</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The above mentioned parameters of one subgroup will be compared with the<br /><br>parameters of another subgroup (i.e. Parkinson*s disease versus essential<br /><br>tremor, Parkinson*s disease versus dystonia)</p><br>
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