Light Therapy Intervention in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
The study looks to investigate the effects that light therapy delivered to the frontal cortex could have on Parkinson's disease related symptoms ( both cognitive and motor). The therapy is a non invasive technique that deliverers low level wavelength light to the front part of the head for 12 minutes. for this study the therapy will be done 3 times a week for 6 weeks. To measure the potential effects on the therapy in Parkinson symptoms, we will do a set of cognitive and motor test before and after the intervention to measure any changes as well as control for any potential markers such as age, sex, disease level, medication and exercise.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 50
Maximum Age: 80
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Diagnosis of Parkinson disease
Locations
United States
Delaware
University of Delaware STAR Tower
RECRUITING
Newark
Contact Information
Primary
Sara Penuela, PhD student
penuelas@udel.edu
9739740120
Backup
Roxana Burciu, PhD, Associative Professor
rgburciu@udel.edu
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-04-04
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-07-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 20
Treatments
Active_comparator: Light therapy grpup
Sham_comparator: placebo light therapy
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: NeuroThera
Leads: University of Delaware