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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02479906
Date of registration: 15/06/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Brainsway
Public title: A Safety & Efficacy Study With Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Scientific title: A Prospective, Double Blind, Randomized, Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of the Brainsway (HAC-Coil) Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (DTMS) System for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Date of first enrolment: November 17, 2016
Target sample size: 203
Recruitment status: Terminated
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02479906
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Canada Israel United States
Contacts
Name:     Avraham Zangen, PhD
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Affiliation:  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Name:     Zafiris J. Daskalakis, MD
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Affiliation:  Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Name:     Moshe Isserles, MD
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Affiliation:  Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center and Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Outpatients

- Men and women 22-68 years of age

- Subjects currently diagnosed with PTSD according to the DSM-5, using the CAPS-5
(past-month version), with the following criteria met:

- Criterion B: at least 1/5 intrusion symptoms; and

- Criteria C: at least 1/2 avoidance symptoms; and

- Criteria D: at least 2/7 cognition & mood symptoms; and

- Criteria E: at least 2/6 arousal & reactivity symptoms; and

- Criterion F: duration is met; and

- Criteria G: distress is met.

- Subjects with at least moderate PTSD with a CAPS-5 score = 25 at both Screening and
Baseline visits.

- Subjects with an HDRS-21 score = 26 at both Screening and Baseline visits.

- Subjects with negative or mitigated answers on safety screening questionnaire for
transcranial magnetic stimulation.

- Negative pregnancy test in childbearing age women.

- Subject is capable and willing to provide informed consent.

- Subject is able to adhere to the treatment schedule.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subject diagnosed according to the SCID I as suffering from any other major Axis I
disorder, such as Psychotic Disorder, Bipolar affective disorder, OCD (MDD is not
contraindicated when HDRS-21=26).

- Subjects diagnosed according to the SCID II as suffering from Severe Personality
Disorder.

- Subjects with significant suicidal risk as assessed by the investigator using the Beck
Suicide Ideation scale, psychiatric interview or a history of attempted suicide in the
past year.

- Subject has a history of epilepsy or seizure (EXCEPT those therapeutically induced by
ECT).

- Subject has a history of significant head trauma with loss of consciousness for longer
than 5 minutes.

- Subject has a history of cranial surgery.

- Subject has metallic particles in the eye or head (exclusive of mouth), implanted
cardiac pacemaker or any intra-cardiac lines, implanted neurostimulators,
intra-cranial implants (e.g., aneurysm clips, shunts, stimulators, cochlear implants,
or electrodes) or implanted medical pumps.

- Subject has severe and frequent headaches.

- Subject has a history of significant hearing loss.

- Subjects with a significant neurological disorder or insult including, but not limited
to:

- Any condition likely to be associated with increased intracranial pressure

- Space occupying brain lesion

- History of cerebrovascular accident

- Transient ischemic attack within two years

- Cerebral aneurysm

- MMSE = 24

- Parkinson's disease

- Huntington's chorea

- Multiple sclerosis

- Subject with a history of substance abuse including alcoholism within the past 6
months (except nicotine and caffeine).

- Inadequate communication with the patient.

- Subject is under custodial care.

- Subject is currently participating in another clinical study or enrolled in another
clinical study within 30 days prior to this study.

- Subject with unstable physical disease such as unstable cardiac disease.

- Subject is currently on Benzodiazepine at a dose higher than 3 mg of Lorazepam or
equivalent.

- Subject has had previous treatment with TMS.

- Women who are breast-feeding.

- Women of childbearing potential and not using a medically accepted form of
contraception when sexually active.



Age minimum: 22 Years
Age maximum: 68 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Intervention(s)
Device: Deep TMS System
Device: Sham Treatment
Primary Outcome(s)
CAPS-5 Score [Time Frame: 5 weeks from baseline]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Response Rate [Time Frame: 5 weeks from baseline]
Secondary ID(s)
CTP-PTSD-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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