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Recruiting
- Conditions
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Registration Number
- DRKS00008842
- Lead Sponsor
- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Institut für Neuropsychologie und Klinische Psychologie
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 295
Inclusion Criteria
Patients with amputation, or patients who are going to be amputated or participants with dysmelia.
Exclusion Criteria
Neuropsychiatric diseases, dementia, missing legal capacity
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Factors that influence the development of phantom pain will be assessed using functional neuroimaging and electroencephalographie. Influencing factors are psychological states before amputation and cortical excitability as measured using transcranial magnetic stimulation (2015-2019).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Potential for therapies for chronic pain. Identification of cortical targets involved in phantom pain will be modulated using combined transcranial magnetc stimulation and neuroimaging.