NCT01041300

The Effects of Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation Multichannel Stimulator on Motor Excitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shalvata Mental Health Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Our aim is to Test the influence of a new multichanel Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation stimulator (Multiway) on motor excitation, in comparision to a wildly used Magstim Super Rapid 2 single channel stimulator. Each of the 20 Healthy subjects that are inticipated to inrole to the study wiil undergo 6 simple procedures which are designed to compare the motor threshold obtained by diffrent combination of TMs coils (figure 8, double cone coil,H coil array) and stimulators (Multiway, Super Rapid 2). The entire length of the procedures is about 4 hours and all subjects will be paid for their participation in the study. Our main hypothesis is that the motor threshold obtained by the multichanel stimulator will be significtly lower then the single chanel stimulator.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Magstim Rapid2 Stimulator	Duration: Time is takes to find motor thresholds obtained with figure-8 coil using Magstim Rapid2 Stimulator (Estimated at 15 minutes). Total Duration of device: 15 minutes
DEVICE	Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator	Finding motor thresholds using the figure-8 coil and the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 15 minutes). Finding motor threshold of leg obtained with Double Cone coil using the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 15 minutes). Finding motor threshold of leg obtained with circular coils using the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 15 minutes). Finding motor threshold of thumb obtained with circular coils on multiple channels using the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 15 minutes). Finding motor thresholds of multiple channels using the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 1 hour). Finding specificity of the motor thresholds of multiple channels using the Brainsway Multi-channel Stimulator (Estimated at 30 minutes). Total Duration with Device: 2 hours and 30 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2009-12-31
• Last updated: 2012-01-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel