NCT01579435

Experimental Therapeutics in Essential Tremor Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Thérapeutique expérimentale du Tremblement Essentiel Par la Stimulation Trans-crânienne Par Courant Direct (tDCS) du Cortex cérébelleux et du Cortex Moteur. Etude Exploratoire.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) delivered over the motor cortex or the cerebellum can improve essential tremor and to identify the cerebral mechanisms involved in these potential effects.

Conditions

• Essential Tremor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	transcranial direct current stimulation	Active stimulation: duration: 20 mn, intensity: 2 mA; localisation : motor cortex or cerebellum; Placebo stimulation: duration: 9 seconds, intensity: 2 mA; localisation : motor cortex or cerebellum;

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2012-04-18
• Last updated: 2013-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France