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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Slow Down Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease
Sponsor: Willem de Haan
Summary
New amyloid-targeting drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD) offer minimal or unclear efficacy and often cause adverse events, highlighting the need for new therapies. In recent years, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown increasing success. A recent randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, phase 2 demonstrated promising results from a 24-week rTMS treatment protocol targeting the precuneus. This brain region is considered a main hub of the human brain connectome and a prominent area of AD pathology. The results showed stable cognitive performance and increased brain activity in the treatment group, whereas the sham group worsened. A replication study is planned to further investigate the working mechanism of precuneus-rTMS in AD and to improve understanding of its therapeutic potential.
Official title: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to Slow Down Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease (AD): TMSLA - a Monocentric Randomized Controlled Trial.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
50 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
62
Start Date
2025-04-07
Completion Date
2028-07
Last Updated
2025-06-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
20 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation targeted at the precuneus
sham repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
20 Hz sham repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation targeted at the precuneus
Locations (1)
Amsterdam UMC
Amsterdam, Netherlands