NCT01263275

Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Depression

Open Pilot Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Depression.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of New South Wales · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Among antidepressant treatments, ECT stands as the most effective in treating acute depression. However, patient concerns with the cognitive side effects of ECT have encouraged the development of new and more focal forms of brain stimulation such as transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). However, not all patients may respond to this treatment in the way that it is currently administered and this has raised interest in finding alternative, possibly more optimal ways of administering tDCS. This study will investigate whether tDCS stimulation using an alternative electrode montage has antidepressant effects.

Conditions

• Major Depression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	tDCS (Eldith DC-Stimulator (CE certified))	Each tDCS session lasting continuously for 20 minutes at 2 mA

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-07-01
• First posted: 2010-12-20
• Last updated: 2015-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia