NCT03983655

Effect of High Frequency/Low Intensity Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cognitive Traits of an Elderly Population of Subjects With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia.

Effect of High Frequency/Low Intensity Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cognitive Traits of an Elderly Population of Subjects With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia: A Randomized, Double Blind, Parallel Group, Sham Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There are no pharmacological interventions that delay or prevent the transition of mild cognitive impairment to dementia. Several studies have shown that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) could be useful in increasing cognitive traits in dementia. As TMS is performed in a clinical setting, transportation, mobility and high costs of treatment, limit the number of TMS sessions dementia patients can receive. Most of the trials do not apply more than 20 TMS sessions Here, a randomized, sham controlled, paralallel group, clinical trial will be performed in order to asess the efficacy at improving cognitive traits of a novel TMS device that uses high frequency and low intensity pulses. As the device is portable and can be used from home without clinical supervision, the stimulation will be applied two times per day for a period of 6 months.

Conditions

• Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Mild Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	High Frequency Low Intensity TMS	125 hz, 10 gauss, 2 times daily for 6 monts

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-17
• Primary completion: 2020-05-17
• Completion: 2020-08-01
• First posted: 2019-06-12
• Last updated: 2021-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico