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Psychotherapy Plus: Combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With tDCS

NCT02633449 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 209

Last updated 2021-08-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study will investigate whether cognitive behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) combined with prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is more efficacious with regard to symptom reduction in depressed patients than CBT combined with sham-tDCS or CBT alone.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

cognitive behavioral therapy

12 sessions of group cognitive behavioral therapy, six patients, two therapists, duration: 100 minutes, two sessions per week for a total of six weeks

DEVICE

tDCS

transcranial direct current stimulation during cognitive behavioral therapy with delayed onset after 10 minutes for 30 minutes, 1-2 mA, anode over electrode position F3, cathode over F4

DEVICE

sham-tDCS

sham transcranial direct current stimulation during cognitive behavioral therapy with delayed onset after 10 minutes for 30 minutes, anode over electrode position F3, cathode over F4

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of München

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital Tuebingen

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Freiburg

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Leipzig

    collaborator OTHER

  • Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim

    collaborator OTHER

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Malek Bajbouj, Prof. Dr. · Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-02-29
Primary Completion
2019-11-15
Completion
2021-01-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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Diseases

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