HD-tDCS as a Treatment for Chronic Tinnitus

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tinnitus, Subjective

Treatments: Device: High Definition transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04565132

HDtDCS_extensive

Details and patient eligibility

About

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) aims to induce cortical plasticity by modulating the activity of brain structures. The broad stimulation pattern, which is one of the main limitations of tDCS, can be overcome with the recently developed technique called High-Definition tDCS (HD-TDCS). The objective of the current study is to investigate the effect of HD-tDCS on tinnitus in a large patient cohort.

Enrollment: 117 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic, subjective, non-pulsatile tinnitus
• met the criteria for HD-tDCS safety

Exclusion criteria

• a middle ear pathology
• another tinnitus treatment ongoing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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117 participants in 1 patient group

HD-tDCS

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient received a total of six sessions of anodal HD-tDCS of right DLPFC.

Treatment:

Device: High Definition transcranial Direct Current Stimulation