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- Clinical Trial NCT03828435
Individualized rTMS Protocol for Stroke Recovery
Development and Efficacy Evaluation of Individualized rTMS Protocol for Stroke Recovery
Study Overview
Detailed Description
It has long been a challenge to promote the recovery after stroke. So far, rehabilitation has been the most evident way for this purpose, while pharmacological approaches have done very little.
However, the unsatisfied results urge us to recognize the need of new therapeutic solutions for stroke recovery. In the past few years, the development of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, which are capable of altering the brain excitability through plasticity-like mechanisms for up to an hour or so, lead to the expectation of improving the recovery of stroke and other neurological disorders by manipulation neuroplasticity. Nevertheless, even with the help of brain stimulation, the results in stroke recovery are diverse and limited, although most studies agree that non-invasive brain stimulation, including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is beneficial to the recovery after stroke.
Therefore, it is an important topic to ameliorate the recipe of brain stimulation for stroke recovery to improve its efficiency and efficacy. Facing this challenge, the investigators designed this study to develop individualized rTMS protocol for stroke recovery, to verify the predictor of stroke outcome discovered by DCM and to explore factors that cause the variability of rTMS. Based on our recent findings that revealed key patterns of stroke recovery base in EEG-based EEG based dynamic causal modelling (DCM), the individualize TMS protocol will be developed. The investigators will first apply different protocols of rTMS given to a variety of locations within the motor network to evaluate their effects on the DCM network. The results will be used for selecting proper rTMS protocols for stroke patients based on their DCM results. The effect of the individualized rTMS protocol will be tested in a small group of patient first. Then the longer therapeutic effect of the protocol will be assessed in a larger patient group under a double-blinded randomized control basis. With the help of this project, the investigators will be able to understand how different protocols of rTMS given to a variety of locations within the motor network affect the DCM network. Such information will be useful for developing individualized rTMS protocol for not only stroke therapy in the present study, but also other neurological disorders, e.g. Parkinson's disease and dystonia, in the further studies.
Furthermore, the investigators expect that the patients stimulated with rTMS using the protocol matched to their DCM network will recover better than those treated with unmatched protocol. This part of result could be further applied as a clinical application to facilitate stroke recovery. The predictors for stroke recovery revealed by the DCM model will also be verified in the current project. This will give us more information about the accuracy of the predictors and may give us new insights for the further development of stroke therapy. The investigators will further analyze EEG data and the results to provide knowledge of the state-dependent effect of brain on the variability of the current forms of rTMS and other noninvasive brain stimulation. This part of information will be very helpful for developing the strategy for eliminating the variability of rTMS and for improving the protocol of rTMS to be more powerful and efficient.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Taoyuan, Taiwan, 333
- Recruiting
- Ying-Zu Huang
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Contact:
- Ying-Zu Huang, MD, PhD
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Sub-Investigator:
- CC Chen
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- first-ever stroke
- in subacute stage (between 1-3 months after stroke onset)
- monohemispheric ischemic stroke
- able to follow the command of the shoulder flexion
- mild to moderate paresis in the upper limb (the motor arm score of National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) = 1 & 2 out of 4, where 4 = no movement)
Exclusion Criteria:
- being less than 20 years or over 75 years of age
- history of seizures or epileptiform discharges on electroencephalogram (EEG)
- pregnancy
- aphasia, apraxia, and concomitant neurological diseases or other severe medical diseases (e.g., sepsis, malignancy, hepatic or renal failure).
- having a pacemaker, an implanted medication pump, a metal plate in the skull, or metal objects inside the eye or skull (for example after brain surgery or a shrapnel wound)
- taking tricyclic antidepressants, neuroleptic agents and other drugs that lower the seizure threshold
- Insulin dependent diabetes
- Thyroid disease
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: healthy control
This group does not undergo any treatment .
Intervention : rTMS
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Magnetic stimulation will be given using a hand-held figure-of-eight coil with an median winding diameter of 70 mm or a cone coil (Magstim Co., Whitland, Dyfed, UK) connected to one Magstim Rapid2 Package (Magstim Co., UK).
The figure-of-eight coil will be placed tangentially to the scalp with the handle pointing backwards, which is thought to preferentially activate the corticospinal cells trans-synaptically (Kaneko et al., 1996), while the cone coil will be placed along the anterioposterior axis to induce a posterior-to-anterior current in the cortex.
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Experimental: stroke patient
this group undergoes rehabilitative therapy. It is a 24-week program and stroke patients practice the physical exercise for 1 hour each time. The intensity is three times a week. Intervention : rTMS |
Magnetic stimulation will be given using a hand-held figure-of-eight coil with an median winding diameter of 70 mm or a cone coil (Magstim Co., Whitland, Dyfed, UK) connected to one Magstim Rapid2 Package (Magstim Co., UK).
The figure-of-eight coil will be placed tangentially to the scalp with the handle pointing backwards, which is thought to preferentially activate the corticospinal cells trans-synaptically (Kaneko et al., 1996), while the cone coil will be placed along the anterioposterior axis to induce a posterior-to-anterior current in the cortex.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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The changes of Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance (FM)
Time Frame: upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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a stroke-specific, performance-based impairment index.
It is designed to assess motor functioning, balance, sensation and joint functioning in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia
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upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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The changes of upper extremity performance evaluation test for the elderly (TEMPA)
Time Frame: upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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a stroke-specific, performance-based impairment index.
It is designed to assess motor functioning, balance, sensation and joint functioning in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia
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upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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The changes of Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT)
Time Frame: upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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a stroke-specific, performance-based impairment index.
It is designed to assess motor functioning, balance, sensation and joint functioning in patients with post-stroke hemiplegia
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upon recruitment, after 24 weeks of rehabilitation treatment
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 104-2292A3
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