NIH Clinical Research Studies Listed By Institute of the Principal Investigator

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

102 Protocols (74 Active Accrual of new subjects, 28 Follow-up of previously enrolled subjects)


Active Accrual, Protocols Recruiting New Patients 
* 13-N-0076:
Gamma Frequency Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Dystonia

* 13-N-0047:
Treatment of Functional Movement Disorders with Psychotherapy

* 13-N-0035:
Modulating Behavior in Humans by Entrainment with Rhythmic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

* 13-N-0022:
Placebo Controlled Double Blind Study of Acetyl Hexapeptide-8 in Treatment of Blepharospasm

* 13-N-0017:
Natural History Study of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML)

* 13-N-0008:
Sildenafil for Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

* 12-N-0182:
Positron Emission Tomography Measurement of Neuroinflammation and P-glycoprotein in Localization-Related Epilepsy

* 12-N-0137:
A Phase 1 Open-Label Dose Escalation Safety Study of Convection Enhanced Delivery (CED) of Adeno-Associated Virus Encoding Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (AAV2-GDNF) in Subjects with Advanced Parkinson's Disease

* 12-N-0123:
Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency: Physiological Markers of Taurine Therapy

* 12-N-0122:
Integrating Genetic and Environmental Risk Scores into an Algorithm to Predict Multiple Sclerosis Susceptibility

* 12-N-0104:
Validating a New Writer's Cramp Scale

* 12-N-0095:
Clinical and Molecular Manifestations of Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood

* 12-N-0065:
Experienced Breacher Study: Evaluation of the Effects from Chronic Exposure to Low-Level Blast

* 12-N-0060:
Structural and Functional Brain Imaging Markers of Upper Motor Neuron Function

* 12-N-0033:
A Phase Two Clinical Trial of Buspirone Therapy in Localization-Related Epilepsy

* 12-N-0031:
Imaging Biomarkers in Parkinson Disease

* 12-N-0030:
Fatigue and Amotivation Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and their Influence on Service Member Community Reintegration

* 12-N-0007:
Prospective Evaluation of the Effect of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation on 18F-Fludeoxyglucose High-Resolution Positron-Emission Tomography in Cushing's Disease

* 11-N-0261:
Evaluation of Skeletal Muscle, Cardiac, and Diaphragm Imaging Biomarkers for GSK2402968 Effects in Ambulatory Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

* 11-N-0211:
Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Movement Disorders

* 11-N-0204:
Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial of Surgical Resection Prior to Bevacizumab Therapy for Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme

* 11-N-0182:
The Role of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Long-Term Auditory Memory - a rTMS Study

* 11-N-0171:
Effect of Functional Exercise in Patients with Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy

* 11-N-0084:
Evaluation and Diagnosis of Potential Research Subjects with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

* 11-N-0055:
The Effect of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Learning with Reward in Healthy Humans

* 11-N-0051:
Surgery as a Treatment for Medically Intractable Epilepsy

* 11-N-0039:
A Phase II Clinical Trial of PRX-00023 Therapy in Localization-Related Epilepsy

* 10-N-0212:
Double Blind Combination of Rituximab by Intravenous and Intrathecal Injection Versus Placebo in Patients with Low-Inflammatory Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (RIVITaLISe)

* 10-N-0199:
Ethanol Response in Essential Tremor: Clinical and Neurophysiological Correlates

* 10-N-0193:
Using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to Predict Intracranial Tumor Growth in Neurofibromatosis Type II (NF2) Patients

* 10-N-0143:
A Prospective Natural History Study of Patients with Syringomyelia

* 10-N-0057:
The Influence of Sensory Stimuli on Gait Imagery in Patients with Freezing of Gait

* 10-N-0009:
Physiological Investigations of Movement Disorders

* 10-N-0003:
Recording and Modulation of Neuronal Mechanisms During Operant Conditioning: A MEG Study

* 09-N-0197:
Double Blind Placebo-Controlled Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Idebenone in Patients with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

* 09-N-0182:
GABA/Glutamate Balance in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with and without Major Depression

* 09-N-0118:
Investigation of Neurofeedback with Real-Time fMRI in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders

* 09-N-0117:
An Open Label Dose Escalation Safety Study of Convection-Enhanced Delivery of IL13-PE38QQR in Patients with Progressive Pediatric Diffuse Infiltrating Brainstem Glioma and Supratentorial High-Grade Glioma

* 09-N-0032:
Comprehensive Multimodal Analysis of Neuroimmunological Diseases of the CNS

* 09-N-0010:
Biomarkers of Risk of Parkinson Disease

* 08-N-0215:
Understanding the Anatomy and Physiology of the Sensory Experience and its Role in Generating Tics in Tourette Syndrome

* 08-N-0161:
Noninvasive Language Mapping in Patients with Localization-Related Epilepsy

* 08-N-0153:
The Role of Autoimmunity in Neurologic Complications of Celiac Disease

* 08-N-0044:
A Prospective Natural History Study of Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)

* 08-N-0027:
HHV6B in Epilepsy Imaging and CSF Studies

* 07-N-0190:
Neurobiological Studies of Psychogenic Movement Disorders and Non-Epileptic Seizures

* 07-N-0137:
Expanding the Phenotype of the LRRK-2 Mutation in Individuals with History of Parkinson's Disease and their Relatives: a Prospective Study

* 07-N-0103:
Imaging Serotoninergic Neurotransmission in Epilepsy

* 07-N-0092:
PET Evaluation of Brain Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptors Using [(11)C]PBR28 in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

* 07-N-0063:
Detecting a Reward Signal in the Motor Cortex

* 06-N-0224:
Collection of Blood Samples for DNA Analysis in Motor Neuron Diseases

* 06-N-0161:
Long-Term Motor Learning in Focal Hand Dystonia

* 06-N-0085:
Two-Compartment Model of Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DT-MRI) for the Diagnosis of Glioma Tumor Recurrence versus Radiation Necrosis

* 06-N-0047:
Reference Values for Plasma Catechols

* 05-N-0228:
The Role of Cortical Coherence in Focal Hand Dystonia

* 05-N-0223:
Clinical Neurophysiology: Training and Normative Values

* 04-N-0071:
Phase I/II Study of HTLV-I-Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP) Using the Humanized MiK-Beta-1 Monoclonal Antibody Directed Toward the IL-2/IL-15R-Beta Subunit (CD122) that Blocks IL-15 Action

* 03-N-0164:
Evaluation and Treatment of Neurosurgical Disorders

* 03-N-0004:
Clinical Laboratory Evaluation of Primary Chronic Autonomic Failure

* 02-N-0132:
In Vivo Mapping Of Structural and Biochemical Abnormalities In Patients With Primary Focal Dystonia

* 02-N-0128:
Evaluation of Tourette's Syndrome with Multimetabolite H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 3T

* 02-N-0014:
Research Study of Specimens Obtained During Epilepsy Surgery

* 01-N-0206:
Phenotype/Genotype Correlations in Movement Disorders

* 01-N-0145:
Screening and Natural History: Primary Lateral Sclerosis and Related Disorders

* 01-N-0139:
Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Epilepsy

* 01-N-0007:
Evaluation, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Patients with or at Risk for Cerebrovascular Disease (A Natural History/Disease Pathogenesis Protocol)

* 00-N-0158:
Trial of Intracerebral Infusion in Patients with Medically Intractable Epilepsy

* 00-N-0089:
Genetic Analysis of the Chiari I Malformation

* 00-N-0082:
Characterization of Brain Morphology and Activity Using Functional and Anatomical MRI Contrast

* 00-N-0043:
Clinical and Molecular Manifestations of Inherited Neurological Disorders

* 98-N-0047:
Immuno-Virological Evaluation of Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type-1 Associated Myelopathy (HAM/TSP)

* 93-N-0202:
Diagnosis and Natural History Protocol for Patients with Different Neurological Conditions

* 89-N-0045:
Evaluation of Progression in Multiple Sclerosis by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

* 85-N-0195:
A Training Protocol for the use of Botulinum Toxin in the Treatment of Neurological Disorders

Active Follow-up, Protocols NOT Recruiting New Patients 

* 12-N-0012:
Pilot Study of Bilateral Pedunculo-Pontine Nucleus (PPN) Deep Brain Stimulation for Patients with Parkinson Disease (PD) Who Have Persistent Gait Disturbance, Despite Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus (STN) Deep Brain Stimulation

* 11-N-0210:
NIB Repository Protocol

* 11-N-0157:
Analysis of Visual-Motor Task Electrophysiological Activity During Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive and Movement Disorders

* 11-N-0116:
Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Healthy Volunteers and People with Multiple Sclerosis

* 11-N-0090:
Structural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Combat Veterans

* 10-N-0185:
Neural Dynamics and Connectivity in Response Inhibition and Traumatic Brain Injury

* 10-N-0125:
Investigating Mechanism of Action of DAC HYP in the Treatment of High-Inflammatory Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

* 10-N-0121:
Oxidative Stress in Motor Neuron Disease: COSMOS-PLS Add-On Study

* 10-N-0092:
Genetics of Motor Learning

* 10-N-0012:
Screening Protocol for Patients with Stroke

* 09-N-0160:
Convection Enhanced Delivery of Muscimol to Study the Pathophysiology Underlying the Clinical Features of Parkinson's Disease

* 08-N-0181:
Role of Neurotransmission and Functional CNS Networks in Spasmodic Dysphonia and Other Focal Dystonias

* 08-N-0134:
Pilot Study of Tolerability of Lithium Therapy in Patients with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type I (SCA1)

* 08-N-0012:
L-Dihydroxyphenylserine (L-DOPS) for Norepinephrine Deficiency: Interactions with Carbidopa and Entacapone

* 07-N-0122:
of Motor Function by Stimulation of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System

* 07-N-0072:
Neural Substrates of Lasting Motor Skill Learning by Spacing Effect

* 06-N-0174:
Cortical Function in Primary Lateral Sclerosis and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

* 06-N-0138:
Long-Term Improvement in Training Effects by Transcranial DC Stimulation

* 06-N-0113:
Phase II Clinical Trial to Examine the Efficacy and Safety of Dutasteride in Patients with Kennedy's Disease (Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy)

* 06-N-0012:
Moving a Paralyzed Hand through a Brain-Computer Interface Controlled by the Affected Hemisphere After Stroke or Traumatic Brain Injury

* 05-N-0245:
A Six Month Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Clinical Trial to Determine the Safety and Efficacy of Idebenone Administered to Patients with Friedreich's Ataxia

* 05-N-0189:
Neuropathological Basis of Spasmodic Dysphonia and Related Voice Disorders

* 05-N-0179:
MRI Measurement of Brain Metabolism Across the Sleep-Wake Cycle

* 05-N-0063:
NINDS Biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis Study (BioMS)

* 03-N-0293:
Induction of Mucosal Tolerance to Human E-Selectin for the Secondary Prevention of Stroke

* 03-N-0203:
SMN Levels in Peripheral Blood Samples of SMA Patients and the Effects of Pharmacological Compounds In Vitro

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