Accelerated Bilateral rTMS on Geriatric Depression
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Major
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Treatment
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 60 years and 85 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation treatment, showing good therapeutic effect to medicine treatment-refractory patients. Recent studies suggested bilateral DLPFC might be effective to geriatric depression. Accelerated treatment course was reported t...
Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation treatment, showing good therapeutic effect to medicine treatment-refractory patients. Recent studies suggested bilateral DLPFC might be effective to geriatric depression. Accelerated treatment course was reported to have similar therapeutic effect and safety profile with traditional course. The investigators hypothesize accelerated bilateral rTMS is effective to geriatric depression and comorbid anxiety. Cognitive impairment and decreased parasympathetic tone are common in patients with major depression. The investigators hypothesize cognitive function and physiological indicators improve after accelerated bilateral rTMS. In this single-center, prospective double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial, the investigators aim to recruit 100 patients older than 60 years, without neurocognitive disorders, and refractory to one or more antidepressants. The experimental group would receive an rTMS course with high-frequency stimulation at left DLPFC followed by low-frequency inhibition at right DLPFC, two sessions daily, five days a week, and two weeks in total. The standard treatment group would receive an rTMS course with high-frequency stimulation at left DLPFC as standard treatment parameters. The control group would receive a sham-probe course. Mood, cognition and physiological markers would be monitored every week. The primary outcome is response and remission rate of major depression measured by Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04486222
- Collaborators
- National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch
- Investigators
- Not Provided