Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in the Primary Motor Cortex in Healthy Individuals

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Brain Stimulation; Basic Physiology

Treatments: Device: Sooma transcranial direct current stimulation device; Device: Placebo Sooma transcranial direct current stimulation device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04148547

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The main aim of this study is to assess the short-term effects of active-tDCS (a-tDCS) on the M1 regarding sensorimotor variables such as discriminative sensation, pressure pain threshold and electromyographic activity compared with a sham-tDCS (s-tDCS) in healthy individuals. The main objective was to determine whether there were clinically relevant changes generated by tDCS and if they were superior to a sham intervention.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• asymptomatic participants
• men and women aged 18 to 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• insomnia
• nausea
• headache
• pregnancy
• use of painkillers in the last 24 hours
• presence of metal inside the head
• pacemaker
• wound on the area of electrodes' application
• drug consumption; (j) recent application of tDCS
• psychiatric disease impeding understanding of the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

transcranial direct current stimulation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Sooma transcranial direct current stimulation device

Sham transcranial direct current stimulation

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Placebo Sooma transcranial direct current stimulation device