Treatment of Refractory Auditory Verbal Hallucinations With tDCS in Schizophrenia

NCT02451371 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2016-12-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to exploratively evaluate the efficacy and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with schizophrenia who experience persistent auditory verbal hallucinations after adequate antipsychotics therapy for over three months.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

tDCS

2mA direct current, 20 minutes per session, 2 sessions per day with at least 3hours interval between sessions, a total of 10 tDCS sessions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Seoul National University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jun Soo Kwon, MD, PhD · Seoul National University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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