NCT05505019Recruiting
Targeting Apathy With Music in Parkinson's Disease
The Role of a Personalized Music Intervention Towards Alleviating Apathy in Parkinson's Disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is often accompanied by non-motor symptoms that make treatment more difficult. One such symptom is apathy (lack of motivation and emotion). There are no treatments for apathy in PD, and this remains a major unmet need in PD patients. One possible way to target apathy in PD patients is listening to music, which has been shown to help improve apathy in older adults. Little work has explored the mechanism in which music targets apathy. Thus, the goal of this study is to understand how music listening can impact the brain towards decreasing apathy in PD patients.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 19 Jul 2022
- Start date
- Feb 2022
- Primary completion date
- Jul 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of British Columbia
- Diseases
- Parkinson disease
- NCT number
- NCT05505019
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 50
- From Feb 2022 to the primary completion date, Jul 2026
- 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
- Participants with atypical Parkinsonism (eg. Progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, drug induced, etc.)
- Participants who have gone through specific injuries/brain surgery (eg. an injury where a piece of metal lodged in the eye or orbit)
Other illness
- Epilepsy
- Other neurological disease/complications (eg. myopathy, stroke, brain lesion, MS)
- Significant cognitive impairment (MoCa \<21)
- Participants with metal/medical implants, including any of the following: artificial heart valve, brain aneurysm clip, electrical stimulators, ear or eye implant, implanted drug infusion pump, coil, catheter, or filter in any blood vessel, orthopedic hardware such as artificial joint, plate, and/or screws, other metallic prostheses, shrapnel, bullets, or other metal fragments, surgery or tattoos, including tattooed eyeliner, in the last six weeks, cardiac pacemaker, wires or defibrillator, or ferromagnetic aneurysm clip)
Other
- Moderate depression (Beck's Depression Inventory \>20)
- Severe/multiple head trauma(s)
Who the study is looking for
- \- Clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease following MDS Parkinson's disease criteria
Age in the registry: 40 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Djavad Mowafghian Centre for Brain Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vancouver | Canada | Recruiting |
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