Effects of TBS on Reading in Adult Struggling Readers

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

28

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 1, 2019

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2021

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Conditions
Developmental Reading DisorderDyslexia, Developmental
Interventions
OTHER

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

The TMS protocol to be used, excitatory intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS), has been shown to have minimal risk in children as young as 6 (Hong et al., 2015), as well as adults (Huang et al., 2005). This stimulation paradigm uses a series of theta burst stimulation (TBS) units. Each unit consists of 3 pulses of stimulation given at 50 Hz (Huang et al., 2005). Excitatory iTBS consists of 20 sets of 10 TBS units (2 second duration) repeated every 10 seconds for a total of 190 seconds. One session of excitatory stimulation delivers a total of 600 pulses.

Trial Locations (1)

30318

Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Atlanta

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Medical University of South Carolina

OTHER

collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

lead

Georgia State University

OTHER

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