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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for "Voices"

NCT00004980 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2013-08-07

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Summary

OBJECTIVES:

I. Determine the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on treatment refractory auditory hallucinations of patients with schizophrenia.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

a total of 132 minutes of stimulation at one hertz, motor threshold set at 80%, delivered to TP3 scalp site

DEVICE

sham stimulation

132 minutes of stimulation given at 80% motor threshold with coil tilted "single wing" 45 degrees away from scalp deliverd to TP3 site

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Yale University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ralph Hoffman · Yale University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-12-31
Primary Completion
2005-01-31
Completion
2005-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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