NCT01076933

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Borderline Personality Disorder

Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Toulouse · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Primary purpose : to assess the effect on neuropsychological tasks related to planning of 10 daily sessions of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients. Hypothesis : BPD patients receiving 10 sessions of rTMS will have greater improvement in the average number of move to achieve tasks of the Tower of London, than those receiving sham rTMS.

Conditions

• Borderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	repetitive Transcranial Stimulation Magnetic (rTMS)	The motor threshold was determined in each subject once, before treatment. This was defined as the lowest stimulation intensity capable of inducing a visible movement at least five times out of 10 stimulations. The position of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was defined as 5 cm anterior (in a parasagittal line) to the motor cortex. The stimulus intensity was 80% of the patient's motor threshold intensity. Treatments were given for 20 minutes per day over 10 working days.
PROCEDURE	sham rTMS	sham rTMS

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2010-02-26
• Last updated: 2017-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France