Evaluation of Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) H-Coil in the Treatment of Major Depression

Shalvata Mental Health Center

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Major Depression

Treatments: Device: H1 and H2 deep TMS coils

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT00445237

SH-505

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is evaluating the safety and feasibility of the novel deep TMS H-coil designs in the treatment of resistant major depression in an open study using two different H-coil designs.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed as suffering from treatment resistant major depression

Exclusion criteria

• Other axis I diagnosis
• Risk factors for convulsions
• Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the last 9 months
• History of drug abuse in the past year

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)