Transcranial Direct-current Stimulation (tDCS) in Treatment Refractory Auditory Hallucinations

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

27

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2014

Primary Completion Date

July 31, 2017

Study Completion Date

March 31, 2018

Conditions
Auditory HallucinationSchizophrenia
Interventions
DEVICE

Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

Stimulation sessions will be conducted twice a day on 5 consecutive weekdays. The twice daily sessions will be separated by at least 3 hours (one in the morning and the other one in the PM). The duration of treatment will be 4 weeks

DEVICE

Placebo

Placebo/sham stimulation: After 40 seconds of real stimulation of 2 mAmp to simulate the tDCS induced skin sensation, only a small current pulse is delivered every 550 msec (110 mAmp over 15 msec) through the remainder of the 20-minute period

Trial Locations (1)

10035

Manhattan Psychiatric Center, New York

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Manhattan Psychiatric Center

OTHER

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