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- Clinical Trial NCT02920840
Brain-oscillation Synchronised Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex (BOSSFRONT)
Brain-oscillation Synchronised Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex: Development and Validation of a Personalized Closed-loop TMS Protocol for the Treatment of Major Depression
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Major depressive disorder is a severe psychiatric illness with a lifetime prevalence of about 8-16%. Many patients fail to achieve complete remission of symptoms under antidepressant medication, with about 10% of patients being chronically resistant to several psychopharmacological treatments. Development of alternative non-pharmacological treatments is therefore essential to improve patient care.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) offers therapeutic potential in this context. Current protocols apply high-frequency rTMS over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to reverse the increased alpha-band oscillatory activity and cortical hypo-excitability in patients with depression. However, translation of rTMS therapy into routine clinical practice has been limited due to low efficacy and high inter-individual variability.
This study aims to optimize rTMS stimulation protocols for MDD by deterministically coupling the timing of TMS to the ongoing oscillatory neural activity in the underlying cortex as measured in real-time with high-density surface EEG. It is hypothesized that alpha phase-locked rTMS of the left DLPFC reverses increased alpha-band oscillatory activity and cortical hypo-excitability more efficiently than current open-loop rTMS protocols used in the treatment of MDD.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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BW
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Tuebingen, BW, Germany, 72076
- University Neurology Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Subject inclusion criteria
- Subjects are between 18 to 65 years old
- Subjects meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-4 criteria for current major depressive disorder (MDD), confirmed with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-4.
- On the 21-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) subjects need to score 8 points or more.
- Subject is in good physical and mental health. Subject understands the study procedures and agrees to participate in the study by giving written informed consent.
- Subject is willing to comply with the study restrictions.
Subject exclusion criteria
- Subject is under the age of legal consent.
- Subject suffers of bipolar disorder.
- Previous failure of nine or more electroconvulsive therapy treatments.
- A current major depressive episode longer than 5 years.
- A history of substance abuse or dependence within the past 2 years.
- Subject suffers of antisocial or borderline personality disorder, active suicidal ideation with plan and/or intent.
- Subject suffers of current symptoms of psychosis.
- Subject has a history of seizure disorder.
- Subject has a history of severe head injury with loss of consciousness.
- Subject had a prior brain surgery, or any other major psychiatric or medical comorbidity.
- Subjects with intake of pro-convulsive medication, e.g. imipramine, amitriptyline, doxepin, nortriptyline, maprotiline, chlorpromazine, clozapine, foscarnet, ganciclovir, ritonavir, amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, phencyclidine (PCP, angel's dust), ketamine, gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), alcohol, theophylline, in accord with present consensus guidelines on safety, ethical considerations, and application of TMS in clinical practice and research (Rossi et al. 2009).
- Subjects are allowed to continue their antidepressant medication, but must be on that medication for at least 2 months and on a stable dose for at least 4 weeks (6 weeks in the case of fluoxetine). Drug doses have to be kept constant during the study.
- Patients with need of regular anxiolytic (e.g. benzodiazepine) treatment above 1 mg lorazepam/d.
- Subjects are allowed to continue psychotherapy, but must be treated a minimum of 12 weeks prior to inclusion in the study, and type and frequency of psychotherapy must not be changed during the study period.
- Subject has a cardiac pacemaker, implanted medication pump, intracardiac line, or acute, unstable cardiac disease.
- Subject has an intracranial implant (e.g., aneurysm clips, shunts, stimulators, cochlear implants, or electrodes) or any other metal object within or near the head (excluding the mouth) that cannot be safely removed.
- Subject has participated in another study within 2 weeks prior to the first study visit.
- Subject has contra-indications to MRI scans or does not agree that (1) the scans are obtained for research purposes only and will not be evaluated by a qualified neuroradiologist; if an abnormality is present, this may well not be noticed by the doctors, scientists and other staff involved in the study and handling the MRI data; and that (2) if any of the staff involved in the study do suspect a relevant abnormality to be present in any of the scans, they will reveal this to the subject so that a further diagnostic workup can be conducted outside of the study.
- Subject is pregnant or trying to get pregnant.
- Women of childbearing age should avoid.
- Contraindications to an MRI
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Basic Science
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
- Masking: Quadruple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Intermittent theta-burst stimulation
Intervention: application of 200 TMS triplet bursts (at 100 Hz, inter-burst interval 200ms) over left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
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see associated arm/group description
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Experimental: Negative-peak-triggered-TMS
Intervention: application of 200 brain-state dependent 100 Hz TMS triplet bursts triggered at the negative peak phase of the ongoing endogenous alpha-band oscillation (as detected by surface EEG over left dlPFC)
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see associated arm/group description
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Active Comparator: Open-loop replay TMS
Intervention: application of the same sequence of TMS pulses as in condition "Negative-peak-triggered-TMS", i.e. irrespective of ongoing brain state over left dlPFC
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see associated arm/group description
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change from baseline in cortical excitability 30 minutes after the intervention
Time Frame: 30 minutes
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TMS-evoked EEG potentials from left dlPFC
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30 minutes
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change from baseline in EEG alpha power 30 minutes after the intervention
Time Frame: 30 minutes
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Left vs. right dlPFC relative spectral power in 8-12 Hz frequency band
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30 minutes
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Change from baseline in verbal working memory performance 30 minutes after the intervention
Time Frame: 30 minutes
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Verbal working memory task
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30 minutes
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Change from baseline in mood on the Hamilton depression rating scale score 30 minutes after the intervention
Time Frame: 30 minutes
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30 minutes
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Study Director: Brigitte Zrenner, MD, University Neurology Hospital Tübingen
- Study Director: Florian Müller-Dahlhaus, MD, University Neurology Hospital Tübingen
- Principal Investigator: Ulf Ziemann, MD, University Neurology Hospital Tübingen
- Principal Investigator: Andreas J Fallgatter, MD, University Psychiatry Hospital Tübingen
- Study Director: Surjo Soekadar, MD, University Psychiatry Hospital Tübingen
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- BNP2016-03
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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