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Experimental Therapeutics in Essential Tremor Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

NCT01579435 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2013-04-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) delivered over the motor cortex or the cerebellum can improve essential tremor and to identify the cerebral mechanisms involved in these potential effects.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

transcranial direct current stimulation

Active stimulation: duration: 20 mn, intensity: 2 mA; localisation : motor cortex or cerebellum; Placebo stimulation: duration: 9 seconds, intensity: 2 mA; localisation : motor cortex or cerebellum;

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

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Principal Investigators

  • Emmanuel Flamand-Roze, MD · Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle et Fédération de Neurologie de l'Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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Diseases

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