Anti-craving Efficacy of Right and Left Prefrontal High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Alcohol Dependence

NCT01093716 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2010-03-26

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Summary

Null hypothesis: There will be no significant difference in the change in craving parameters between right and left prefrontal high frequency rTMS in patients with alcohol dependence.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Dependence

Interventions

DEVICE

Magstim Rapid® (rTMS)

Ten daily sessions of rTMS treatments using Magstim Rapid® device (10 Hz, 110% of the MT, 4.9 seconds per train, inter-train interval of 30 seconds, and 20 trains per session) with an air cooled figure-of-eight coil over either right or left DLPFC

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • S Haque Nizamie · Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2010-02-28

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