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NCT04713982Active, not recruitingPhase 2/3

Impact of Deutetrabenazine on Functional Speech and Gait Dynamics in Huntington Disease

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Aug 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Examine the effects of deutetrabenazine on functional speech and gait impairment

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30 (estimated)
First submitted
6 Jan 2021
Start date
19 Nov 2021
Primary completion date
30 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
NCT number
NCT04713982

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2/3
  • Planned participants: 30
  • From 19 Nov 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Inability to swallow study medication
  • Current use of VMAT2 inhibitor (tetrabenazine, deutetrabenazine, valbenazine)
  • Concurrent participation in any other investigational drug trials

Other illness

  • History of suicidal behavior
  • Unstable or serious medical or psychiatric illness
  • Renal or hepatic impairment
  • Severe speech impairment or anarthria
  • History of alcohol or substance abuse within the last 12 months

Other

  • Severe depression or suicidal ideation
  • Women who are pregnant or breast feeding
  • EKG QTcF\> 500 mse

Who the study is looking for

  • Diagnosis of HD with documented CAG repeat ≥ 37
  • UHDRS total maximal chorea score of ≥ 8
  • Able to walk at least 10 meters
  • Medically stable outpatient, based on the investigator's judgment
  • Willing and able to give written informed consent prior to performing any study procedures
  • Have completed at least 10th grade
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment score ≥ 22 on screening
  • Female subjects of childbearing potential agree to use an acceptable method of contraception from screening through study completion

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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NashvilleUnited StatesUnknown status

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