Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Efficacy, Safety and Mechanism of High Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) in the Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy
To observe the clinical effect and safety of transcranial electrical stimulation on patients with refractory epilepsy before and after treatment and analyze its therapeutic mechanism.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 90 |
Est. completion date | June 30, 2026 |
Est. primary completion date | December 30, 2025 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years to 50 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Clinical diagnosis of refractory epilepsy - Right-handed and aged 18-50 years old and primary school education or above; - No major neurological or mental illness, no head injury, alcohol dependence or drug dependence; - During the experiment, the subjects did not smoke, drink, get sick and take psychotropic drugs, and there were no major life events that caused mood changes. Exclusion Criteria: - organic brain injury, neurological diseases or serious physical diseases; - Have a history of substance abuse and drug dependence, or have used antipsychotic drugs in the past three months, and have serious suicidal tendencies; - There are contraindications for MRI or EEG or transcranial magnetic stimulation. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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China | Anhui Medical University | Hefei | Anhui |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Anhui Medical University |
China,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | The changes of Epilepsy diary | The reduction of seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy will constitute the primary outcome measure to evaluate the efficacy of HD-tDCS, reflecting the improvement of patients' clinical symptoms. Patients and family members are asked to keep an epilepsy diary to record the time, duration, and status of the seizure. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of VEEG | The number of discharges recorded by VEEG before and after the intervention, as well as the decrease in epileptiform discharge index, were used as indicators to evaluate the improvement of epilepsy symptoms | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of resting-state functional connectivity | the change of resting-state functional connectivity strength between stimulated target and the whole brain areas will be measured by functional MRI and resting-state EEG. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of resting motor threshold(RMT) | Previous studies have found that the resting movement threshold is an effective measure of cortical excitability in epilepsy patients, and can better predict the therapeutic effect. An elevated resting movement threshold indicates that the treatment is responding. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of glutamate receptor-mediated intracortical facilitation (ICF) | ICF is a 120% RMT stimulation administered 15 ms after 90% RMT intensity stimulation, glutamate receptor-mediated intracortical promotion | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of GABA-A receptor-mediated short septal cortical inhibition (SICI) | SICI is 120% RMT administered 4 ms after 80% RMT intensity stimulation in response to GABA-A receptor-mediated short-interval cortical inhibition | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of GABA-B receptor-mediated long septal cortical inhibition (LICI). | LICI is 120% RMT administered 150ms after 120% RMT intensity stimulation in response to GABA-A receptor-mediated long-interval cortical inhibition, | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of MoCA Score | MoCA was developed by Nasreddine et al. based on clinical experience and reference to the MMSE cognitive items and scores, and the final version was finalized in November 2004. We adopted a localized version (Mandarin version,includes 2 alternative versions) in line with the Chinese cultural background.A higher score indicates improvement | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) Score | The HAMD is a clinic ian-administered depression assessment and consists of 17 items with a total score range from 0 to 54. A higher score indicates a worse outcome. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) Score | The HAMA is a 14-item scale to measure the severity of anxiety symptoms, where each item is rated on a scale from 0 to 4. The HAMA total score ranges from 0 to 56, with lower scores indicating less anxiety symptoms. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of Chinese auditory learning test Score | A group consists of 15 words, read to the subject at a speed of one per second, after reading, let the patient repeat these 15 words, record the number of words spoken correctly, repeat the above behavior five times, start the timer after the end, let the patient recall 15 words after 30 minutes, and calculate the correct number,The more vocabulary is memorized, the better the score | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of TMT (Trail Making Test) Score | The Trail Making Test (TMT) is divided into two parts, part A and part B. Part A requires the subject to connect 25 Numbers on the paper in sequence, and part B requires the subject to connect 25 Numbers of different colors alternately in sequence. The time it takes for the subject to complete all the Numbers is the subject's final score.the shorter the better. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months | |
Secondary | The changes of Face associative memory Score | The associative memory was estimated using a face-cued word association test. In the face-cued word association test, participants studied 20 human face photographs presented individually in grayscale on a computer screen for 4 s per face. Each photograph displayed a unique common word that the participants read aloud as each face-word pair was shown. The participants were instructed to memorize the word associated with each face. After the face-word pairs were presented, participants were shown the same 20 faces, individually and in a different and randomized order. They were asked to recall the words that were presented with each face. Each face was scored as correct or incorrect. These processes are carried out 2 times in total. The average number of successful answers was defined as the associative memory score.The more faces you remember correctly, the higher your score. | Baseline and 10 workdays post-treatment,and follow-up to 1 months and 3 months |
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