Clinical trialNCT02196025CompletedInterventional

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment of Insomnia

SponsorUniversity of FloridaEnrollment23Insomnia

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Summary

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that has been approved as a treatment of depression in patients that have not responded to a trial of one antidepressant medication. The investigators hypothesize that low frequency TMS exerts inhibitory effect on hyper excitable cortical state in patients with chronic insomnia and therefore is therapeutic. The investigators want to compare the change in insomnia scores between baseline and end of treatment in an open label trial with bifrontal low frequency TMS stimulation in 20 patients with primary insomnia using daily stimulation of 3 weeks (15 week days).

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Investigators

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Richard Holbert, MD
University of Florida
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

Uf @ Shands
Gainesville, Florida, 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 May 2015
Primary completion: 21 Jul 2021
Completion: 21 Jul 2021
Last update posted: 6 Aug 2024
Registered enrollment: 23
Registry id: NCT02196025

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