NCT04704687

Clinical Efficacy and Long Term Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood. Patients with ADHD present inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity causing severe impairments on academic achievement, social and professional life and daily functioning. Medications are effective in a majority of children with ADHD, but about 30% do not respond or tolerate stimulants, and some parents refuse pharmacological treatments.Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation is a safe and non-invasive technique of brain stimulation used in several neurological and psychiatric disorders, and recently in ADHD. In patients with ADHD, tDCS stimulations targeted frontal regions improve executive and attentional functioning and daily life symptoms. The objective of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of tDCS (vs sham) during cognitive-remediation exercises on ADHD symptoms (inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity as defined by DSM-5) in children with ADHD between 7 and 14 years of age.

Conditions

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation	Children will perform two successive interventions composed each by a set of 15 sessions of effective-tDCS combine with cognitive-training exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-08
• Primary completion: 2025-08-01
• Completion: 2026-01-01
• First posted: 2021-01-12
• Last updated: 2025-05-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France