Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:58 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:58 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00031369
Eligibility Criteria:
* INCLUSION CRITERIA:
HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS: Healthy volunteers who consented to participate in the study and matched for age, sex, handedness with the group of patients with primary focal hand dystonia.
PATIENTS: Patient with primary focal dystonia from our dystonia patient database who consented to participate in the study. This criterion will be established by the preliminary screening in the Human Motor Control Outpatient Clinic.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
The following subjects will be excluded:
Healthy volunteers with cognitive complaints, abnormal neurological exam or history of past neurological disease.
Dystonia patients with the presence of a second neurological disease or condition; abnormal neurological findings on exam that are not related to primary focal dystonia.
Subjects with past or present neuropsychiatric illness, head trauma with loss of consciousness, epilepsy, cerebro-vascular disease, migraine, past and present history of alcohol abuse, medical conditions that may alter cerebral structure.
Subjects with abnormal MRI findings at visual inspection (prominent normal variants such as mega cisterna or cavum septum pellucidum, signs of severe cortical or subcortical atrophy, brain tumors, vascular diseases, trauma or AVMs).
Subjects with any metallic objects within them just prior to MR imaging (cardiac or neural pacemaker, aneurysm clips \[metal clips on the wall of a large artery\], metallic prostheses \[including heart valves and cochlear implants\] or shrapnel fragments. Welders and metal workers are also at risk for injury and may not take part in the study because of possible small metal fragments in the eye of which they may be unaware.
Subjects not capable of giving an informed consent.
Women who are pregnant
Children
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT00031369
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00031369