Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Geriatric Depression

Clínica Physio Line0 sitesFebruary 10, 2021

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

February 10, 2021

End Date

June 15, 2022

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Intervention

Sponsor

Clínica Physio Line

•Will be admitted to this study: who is over 65 years old on the day of the first assessment; in use of antidepressants stable for at least 6 months, diagnosed of major depressive disorder; who is right\-handed; and mild to moderate depression, indicating they are resistant to treatment with pharmacological therapy and / or psychotherapy (taken by the Geriatric Depression Scale).

•The elderly will not participate in the investigation: using sedatives, anticonvulsants, amantadine or memantine during the study; who has consumed caffeine on the day of stimulation; with a previous history of stroke, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, unexplained loss of consciousness; in unstable medical conditions; who has metallic objects in the skull, excluding in the mouth, for example, shrapnel; undergoing craniotomy or head injury; who has disease that caused brain damage or neurological disease; using pacemaker (bypass); participating on another concomitant clinical trial; medication change during the study; with Cognitive Impairment (assessed by the Montreal Cognitive Assessment \- MoCA, score below 26\); diagnosis of Dementia; scores below 10 \- because they are not depressed, or above 21 on the Geriatric Depression Scale because there is evidence that ETCC works better in mild to moderate depression (Gálvez et al., 2015\).