Influence of Autonomy on Motor Learning in People With Parkinson's Disease
Recruiting · NCT05960331 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
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What this trial is about
The goal of this clinical trial is to explore the benefits of autonomy supported learning in patients with Parkinson's disease. The main questions to answer are: * Whether autonomy supported learning can benefit motor learning in PD patients * Whether autonomy supported learning can enhance intrinsic motivation and/ or information processing of PD patients in learning a new task. * Whether autonomy supported learning can facilitate cortical excitability change after practicing a new task. Participants will be recruited into two groups (Self-control group, SC; and yoked group, YK) to learn a finger-pressing trajectory matching task * Participants in SC group will have choice over feedback schedule during trial practice * Participants in YK group will receive feedback with no-choice during trial practice Researchers will compare the retention test performance to see if autonomy supported learning will lead to better learning effect.
Who can take part
Inclusion criteria
- age above 20-years-old
- able to follow instructions to perform the tasks (Montreal Cognitive Assessment ≥ 24)
- no surgery and injury in upper extremities in recent 6 months
Exclusion criteria
- other neurological disorders in addition to Parkinson's disease
- Parkinson's disease dementia
- symptom of severe tremor in upper extremities (score ≥ 3 in Question 15 to 18 of UPDRS-III)
- deep brain stimulation or pacemaker implanted
- medical history of seizure
- a blood-relative with history of epilepsy
- unstable medical conditions
- pregnancy
Where it is running
1 location listed.
- National Taiwan University Hospital - Taipei, Taiwan