tSMS in Essential Tremor

Fundación de investigación HM

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Essential Tremor

Treatments: Device: sham; Device: tSMS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03780426

Fundacion de Investigación HM

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is randomized double-blind study to study the hypothesis that transcranial static magnetic field stimulation of the primary motor cortex improves tremor in patients with essential tremor. Half of the patients will receive tSMS of the left hemisphere and the other half of the right hemisphere.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Essential tremor

Exclusion criteria

• MRI-incompatible metal objects in the body (e.g. cardiac pacemakers)
• other main neuropsychiatric co-morbidity
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

tSMS left motor cortex (sham right)

Experimental group

Description:

30 min of tSMS applied to the left motor cortex with sham on the right motor cortex

Treatment:

Device: tSMS

Device: sham

tSMS right motor cortex (sham left)

Experimental group

Description:

30 min of tSMS applied to the right motor cortex with sham on the left motor cortex

Treatment:

Device: tSMS

Device: sham