- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03401996
tDCS in Tourette (TIC-TDCS) (TIC-TDCS)
tDCS Over the Supplemental Motor Area for the Treatment of Tourette Syndrome
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Yamile Jasaui, MSc
- Phone Number: 001-403-220-4992
- Email: yjasauic@ucalgary.ca
Study Locations
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Alberta
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N1
- Recruiting
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary
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Contact:
- Yamile Jasaui, MSc
- Phone Number: 001-403-220-4992
- Email: yjasauic@ucalgary.ca
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants who meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for TS (APA, DSM V).
- 16 years of age or older.
- A "moderately ill" or worse score on the Clinical Global Impression Severity scale (CGI-S).
- A total motor tic or vocal tic severity score greater or equal to 15/25 on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) or a combined score greater than 22/50.
- Participants should be either un-medicated or on stable medication treatment for tics for the previous 3 months. If receiving botulinum toxin treatment, their enrolment should be at least 16 weeks after the last treatment session.
- Psychiatric comorbidities should be clinically stable; treatment has not changed in the last 3 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will be excluded from the study if they meet any of the following criteria:
- Have a metal object/implant in their brain, skull, scalp, or neck.
- Have an implantable device (e.g., cardiac pacemaker).
- Have a diagnosis of epilepsy or cardiac disease.
- Have a history of traumatic brain injury, learning disability or dyslexia.
- Have a severe impediment in vision or hearing.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: DOUBLE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Real tDCS
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A 1mA direct current will be delivered through two 5cm x 5cm saline-soaked surface sponge electrodes by a battery-driven, constant-current stimulator (Neuroconn DC stimulator). First, the SMA will be identified based on the guidelines of the international 10-20 electrode system. The tDCS will then be applied using the following procedure:
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SHAM_COMPARATOR: Sham tDCS
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A 1mA direct current will be delivered through two 5cm x 5cm saline-soaked surface sponge electrodes by a battery-driven, constant-current stimulator (Neuroconn DC stimulator). First, the SMA will be identified based on the guidelines of the international 10-20 electrode system. The tDCS will then be applied using the following procedure:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Tic severity total subscore on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS)
Time Frame: Immediately after last tDCS session
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The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale is the most extensively deployed scale worldwide for measuring tic severity.
It requires an experienced clinician using all available information to rate motor and phonic tic severity during the previous week.
Five dimensions (number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference) of motor and phonic tics are rated separately on a six point Likert-type scale (zero-five), with each point anchored to descriptive statements and relevant examples.
The global score has a zero-one hundred range, composed by severity and overall impairment scores, each of which having a zero-fifty range.
Higher values indicate worse outcome.
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Immediately after last tDCS session
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Tic severity total subscore on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS)
Time Frame: 1 week after end of intervention
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The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale is the most extensively deployed scale worldwide for measuring tic severity.
It requires an experienced clinician using all available information to rate motor and phonic tic severity during the previous week.
Five dimensions (number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference) of motor and phonic tics are rated separately on a six point Likert-type scale (zero-five), with each point anchored to descriptive statements and relevant examples.
The global score has a zero-one hundred range, composed by severity and overall impairment scores, each of which having a zero-fifty range.
Higher values indicate worse outcome.
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1 week after end of intervention
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Tic inhibition potential on the Modified Video-Based Tic Rating Scale (MVBTRS)
Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Tic suppression will be measured using the Modified Rush Video-Based Tic Rating Scale through a 5 min video recording (2.5 min head and shoulders and 2.5 min whole body view).
The scoring method consists of combining scores rating tic distribution (number of body areas involved, from 0 to 4), tic frequency (number of motor and phonic tics expressed from 0 to 4), and tic severity (for motor tics and for phonic tics, from 0 to 4).
The total score range is 0 to 20, with higher values indicating worse outcome.
Tic suppression will be expressed as suppression potency (IP), defined as follows: IP = RF-RI/RF, where RF is the Rush score during 'free' ticcing and RI the Rush score during tic suppression.
Thus, the higher the IP value, the more efficient the suppression potency.
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Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Adverse effects
Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Semistructured questionnaire on adverse effects
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Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Tourette Syndrome Clinical Global Impression (TS-CGI)
Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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The TS-CGI is a clinician-rated seven point ordinal scale that ranks current symptom severity from "normal" to "extremely severe", rating the overall adverse impact of tics, but does not assess separately the individual dimensions of tics.
It shares the same composition with Clinical Global Impression of Severity scales, which are commonly used measures of symptom severity in studies of patients with psychiatric disorders.
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Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Individualized-Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (iPUTS)
Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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The I-PUTS is a clinician-administered measure that assessed the presence, frequency, intensity, and body region location of urges for individual tics endorsed over the past week using a symptom checklist that paralleled the YGTSS.
The clinician inquires about the frequency of endorsed urges on a 4-point scale (1 = "Urge occurs 0-25% of the time you do the tic" to 4 = "Urge occurs 75%-100% of the time you do the tic").
The clinician also inquires about the urge intensity on a 4-point scale (1 = "minimal intensity/urge can be ignored for a considerable amount of time" to 4 = "strong intensity/urge needs relief almost immediately").
When tics and/or urges are not endorsed, items receive a rating of 0. Finally, the clinician inquires about the body region associated with each urge.
Items are summed to create a total number of distinct urges (I-PUTS Urge Number), total urge frequency (I-PUTS Frequency), and total urge intensity (I-PUTS Intensity).
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Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
Time Frame: Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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The Y-BOCS is a 10-item, clinician-administered scale, that has become the most widely used rating scale for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The Y-BOCS provides five rating dimensions for obsessions and compulsions: time spent or occupied; interference with functioning or relationships; degree of distress; resistance; and control (i.e., success in resistance).
The 10 Y-BOCS items are each scored on a four-point scale from 0 = "no symptoms" to 4 = "extreme symptoms."
The sum of the first five items is a severity index for obsessions, and the sum of the last five an index for compulsions.
A translation of total score into an approximate index of overall severity ranges between 0 and 40, with higher scores indicating worse outcome.
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Immediately after and 1 week after last tDCS session
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ACTUAL)
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
- Mental Disorders
- Pathologic Processes
- Brain Diseases
- Central Nervous System Diseases
- Nervous System Diseases
- Disease
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Basal Ganglia Diseases
- Movement Disorders
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Heredodegenerative Disorders, Nervous System
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Tic Disorders
- Syndrome
- Tourette Syndrome
Other Study ID Numbers
- REB17-1615
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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