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Clinical trialNCT00841464CompletedObservational

Study on the Effect of External Magnetic Stimulation on Patients With Parkinson's Disease

SponsorParkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center, PhiladelphiaEnrollment20Parkinson's Disease
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The purpose of this research study is to test the usefulness of external magnetic stimulation (EMS) for treating the motor, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). Participants with Parkinson's disease will be recruited at the PADRECC of the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Enrolled participants will be randomly assigned to receive either active external magnetic stimulation or fake stimulation. The external magnetic stimulation is delivered by wearing a helmet that is embedded with many small circuits which produce a very small magnetic field around the head. The helmet is to be worn daily for two minutes immediately before bedtime for three months in a row. The helmet is for investigational use only and has not been approved for use by the FDA.
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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

  • John E Duda, M.D.

    Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center (PADRECC), Philadelphia

    Principal Investigator
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  • Timothy Roberts, Ph.D.

    Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Philadelphia Va Medical Center

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Mar 2009
Primary completion
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Completion
31 May 2011
Last update posted
10 Jul 2012
Registered enrollment
20
Registry id
NCT00841464
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.