NCT02778256

Study of the Effectiveness of Vestibular Stimulation Treatment in the Depressive Phase of Bipolar Disorder

Study of the Effectiveness of Vestibular Stimulation as a Coadjuvant Treatment in the Depressive Phase of Bipolar Disorder

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Vest Brain,Centro de Estudios Neurovestibulares · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Vestibular stimulation has been shown to be a very effective noninvasive treatment for major depression. Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that presents cyclic sequences of depressive and euphoric states. Depressive phases of bipolar disorder are difficult to treat and usually are resistant to actual available treatments. This study investigates the effectiveness of a particular technique of vestibular stimulation in a group of 120 bipolar type I and II patients. After randomization 60 of them will receive specific vestibular stimulation (experimental group) and 60 will receive a sham vestibular stimulation.The study will conducted in Vest Brain, Centro de Estudios Neurovestibulares, in Chile.

Conditions

• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression, Bipolar

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Vestibular stimulation	A specific vestibular stimulation technique is applied to the experimental group
DEVICE	Sham vestibular stimulation	Sham vestibular stimulation using lower than threshold stimuli. The absence of vestibular nystagmus confirms that it is sham.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-05-01
• Completion: 2024-10-30
• First posted: 2016-05-19
• Last updated: 2024-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Chile