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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01458470
Date of registration: 20/10/2011
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of British Columbia
Public title: A Trial of Memantine as Symptomatic Treatment for Early Huntington Disease MITIGATE-HD
Scientific title: A Trial of Memantine as Symptomatic Treatment for Early Huntington Disease; a Phase IIb Study
Date of first enrolment: September 2011
Target sample size: 19
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01458470
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     Michael R. Hayden, MD,ChB,PhD
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Affiliation:  The University of British Columbia
Name:     Blair R. Leavitt, MD,CM,FRCPC
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Affiliation:  University of British Columbia
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

To be eligible for the study, a subject must be enrolled in the early HD cohort of the
TRACK-HD study and:

- be at least 18 years of age and not older than 65

- able to provide written consent

- carry the abnormal HD gene and show early symptoms of HD

- be able and willing to comply with study requirements, including travel to study
center

- have no metal implants to be suitable for MRI scans and able to tolerate them

- able to tolerate blood draws

- be of stable medical, psychiatric and neurological health at the time of enrollment

- not have a history of significant head injury

- not have a history of significant hand injury that would prevent either writing or
performing rapid computer tasks

- not be abusing drugs and/or alcohol that may cause failure to comply with study
procedures

- not be currently participating in PREDICT-HD or a clinical drug trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

Prospective subjects will be excluded if:

- they are younger than 18 years of age and older than 65

- they are unable to provide written consent

- they show advanced symptoms of HD if they are HD gene carriers

- they are unwilling to comply with study requirements, including travel to study center

- they are unsuitable for MRI (e.g, claustrophobia, metal implants) or unable to
tolerate them

- they are unable to tolerate blood draws; or,

- they have a major psychiatric disorder, concomitant significant neurological disorder
or concomitant significant medical illness at the time of enrollment

- they have a history of CNS disease or significant head injury; or,

- they have a history of significant hand injury that would prevent either writing or
performing rapid computer tasks; or,

- they are likely to be non-compliant with study procedures due to drug and/or alcohol
abuse; or,

- they are participating in PREDICT-HD or a clinical drug trial at the time of
enrollment.

- they are not sighted

- English is not their first language

- they are currently or treated within the last 6 months with antipsychotic medications,
including the traditional neuroleptics such as haloperidol as well as the atypical
antipsychotics risperidone, clozapine, quetiapine and olanzapine

- they are use phenothiazine-derivative antiemetic medications such as prochlorperazine,
metoclopramide, promethazine and Inapsine on a regular basis (greater than 3 times per
month)

- they have a history of learning disability and/or mental retardation.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 75 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Huntington Disease
Intervention(s)
Other: Placebo
Drug: Memantine
Primary Outcome(s)
Utility of TRACK-HD study endpoints in a clinical trial setting [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Test Scores [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
H11-01364
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Huntington Study Group
Huntington Society of Canada
Ethics review
Results
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