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Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Patients With Disorders of Consciousness

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ChiCTR
Registry ID
ChiCTR1800014808
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2018-02-07
Start date
2018-02-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2018-02-12

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

disorder of consciousness

Interventions

Sponsors

The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 80 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Coma: (1) Male and female aged 16-80 years; (2) severe brain injury that leads to coma (including trauma, cerebrovascular disease, ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy or other severe brain injury); (3) coma lasts more than a week; (4) imaging (MRI) head has no obvious shift, missing, large necrosis of brain structure change and obvious brain stem (not including pyramidal tract) or thalamic lesions, each lobe lesions range can not exceed 30% of the scope of one side of the brain; (5) stable condition and stable symptoms; (6) the family members of the patient volunteered to participate in the study and signed informed consent. Plant status and Minimum state of consciousness: (1) Male and female aged 18-65 years; (2) in line with the establishment of the multi-society Task Force in 1994 and the current internationally recognized standards for plant status diagnosis;conforming to the current internationally recognized minimum state diagnostic criteria for international studies, such as Giacino in 2002; (3) the course of illness is more than one month; (4) imaging (MRI) head has no obvious shift, missing, large necrosis of brain structure change and obvious brain stem (not including pyramidal tract) or thalamic lesions, each lobe lesions range can not exceed 30% of the scope of one side of the brain; (5) stable condition and stable symptoms; (6) the family members of the patient volunteered to participate in the study and signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: (1) the use of sedative sleeping pills, anesthetics, psychotropic drugs, muscle relaxants or Na +, ca+ + channel blockers (such as carbamazy equality) during the evaluation period; (2) ventilator dependence; (3) the course of illness is over 1 year; (4) there electromagnetism examination and treatment of the taboo, including metal material is contained inside the body, such as pacemakers, dentures, steel nails, etc.), open craniocerebral injury or skull defect prevents the line electromagnetic stimulation; (5) there was a history of epileptic seizures, and patients with epileptic seizures or eeg were clinically indicated; (6) the combination of other serious diseases (such as heart, liver and kidney failure); (7) progressive neurological diseases such as central nervous system tumor or transsexual disease.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Glasgow Outcome Scale, GOS;Glasgow Coma Scale, GCS;

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
event-related potential, ERP;

Countries

China

Contacts

Public ContactWeiming SUN

The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University

sunweiming08@126.com+86 13291419434

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ChiCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 1, 2026