NCT04086160

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Motor Function in Schizophrenia Patients and Individuals at Risk for Psychotic Onset

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dr WANG Shumei · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purposes of this research are to investigate (1) if schizophrenia patients and at-risk individuals present bradykinesia and dyskinesia and (2) if tDCS improves motor performance in schizophrenia patients and at-risk individuals. The first hypothesis is that both schizophrenia patients and at-risk individuals show bradykinesia and dyskinesia, and the motor symptoms are more severe in the former than the latter. The second hypothesis is that tDCS improves motor performance in schizophrenia patients and at-risk cases.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Psychosis
• Parkinsonism
• Dyskinesias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Transcranial direct current stimulation device (Soterix Medical, New York, NY)	Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive intervention, which applies low-amplitude direct electric currents to the brain through scalp electrodes. The real (2mA) or sham tDCS intervention will be given for a total of eight sessions in four weeks with 20 minutes per session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-22
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2019-09-11
• Last updated: 2023-03-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong