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Rehabilitative Trial for the Recovery of Neurophysiological Parameters in Progranulin Mutation Carriers Through the Use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

ClinicalTrials.gov · COMPLETED, 2019

70 participants

Abstract

In this randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study, the investigators will evaluate the effects of frontal and prefrontal anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on neurophysiological parameters of cortical connectivity, assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), in asymptomatic subjects bearing a pathogenic GRN mutation and in symptomatic patients with frontotemporal dementia.

Conditions: Frontotemporal Dementia, GRN Related Frontotemporal Dementia.

Primary outcome: Change in SICI measurements from Baseline; Change in ICF measurements from Baseline.

Enrollment: 70 participants.

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