NCT02167971

Brain Stimulation for Traumatic Brain Injury

Evaluation of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on the Cognitive Rehabilitation After Traumatic Diffuse Axonal Injury.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is effective in the cognitive rehabilitation of patients with diffuse axonal injury(DAI) after Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI).

Conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Diffuse Axonal Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Active Coil	The patients will undergo 10 sessions (2,000 pulses each, lasting 20 minutes) of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with the following parameters: 10Hz, 50 trains (40 pulses on each train), biphasic wave, 25 seconds between the trains.
OTHER	Sham	The patients assigned to this group will undergo 10 sessions of rTMS but with an inactive coil, which will not generate electromagnetic pulses.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2014-06-19
• Last updated: 2017-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil