Study of Parkinson’s disease and impulsive compulsive behaviours
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Long term outcome of Parkinson’s disease patients with impulsive compulsive behaviours: an observational study and assessment of eye movements
IRAS ID
181100
Contact name
Pedro M Barbosa
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2015/05/72, UCL Data Protection Registration
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
A small proportion of individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) will develop one or more impulsive compulsive behaviour (ICB) at some point of their lives. These abnormal behaviours can remain undetected for several months and can have serious negative effects on the lives of individuals with PD.
Patients interested in participating in this research will be given an information sheet and any questions they might have will be answered by one of the researchers. They will be contacted 3 to 5 days after this initial contact and invited to sing an informed consent form.
This research has two parts. In the first part our main objective is to study a group of patients with PD and ICBs in a long term scenario. We will use questionnaires and a clinical interview to measure quality of life, severity of the symptoms of PD, severity of ICBs and assess the presence of other problems such as anxiety and depression. We also want to know if the ICBs have improved, worsened or had no difference after disease progression.
The second part of the study involves recording participants’ eye movements with a device called Eyebrain tracker. This is a device which consists of a helmet with cameras to track eye movements attached to a computer screen that will display visual information (such as geometric figures and images) to be identified by the participant. It is known that some medical conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and drug addiction can interfere with normal eye movements and we want to assess if individuals with PD and ICBs have a distinct pattern of eye movements that could be identified by the Eyebrain tracker.
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/LO/1531
Date of REC Opinion
5 Nov 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion