Start Date
July 31, 2015
Primary Completion Date
July 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2016
Active Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
TMS is a non-invasive treatment. During TMS treatment, a coil, which creates a magnetic field, will be placed on the left prefrontal area of the head. Active TMS will stimulate for 4 seconds, pause for 26 seconds, and repeat this for approximately 40 minutes. There will be a total of 3000 pulses during treatment. We expect TMS to decrease pain and depression. In order to find out if this is true, we will compare real TMS with sham (inactive) TMS.This will allow us to decide if active TMS is successful because of electrical stimulation, or because of the support, concern, and understanding of the research team.
Sham Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Inactive treatment (simulation of active TMS)
ETSU Dept. of Psychiatry, Johnson City
Collaborators (1)
Neuronetics
OTHER
East Tennessee State University
OTHER