Enhancement of Motor Function with Reboxetine and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Summary

The hypothesis of the study is that combination of reboxetine/tDCS is more effective in enhancing motor functions of daily life (assessed by the Jebsen Taylor test) as compared to reboxetine and tDCS alone. The protocol is designed as a within-subject, block randomized placebo-controlled double-blind crossover study.

Timeline

Start

2009-01

Primary completion

2009-11

Completion

2010-06

Publications

• Background Hummel F, Celnik P, Giraux P, Floel A, Wu WH, Gerloff C, Cohen LG. Effects of non-invasive cortical stimulation on skilled motor function in chronic stroke. Brain. 2005 Mar;128(Pt 3):490-9. doi: 10.1093/brain/awh369. Epub 2005 Jan 5.
• Background Hummel F, Cohen LG. Improvement of motor function with noninvasive cortical stimulation in a patient with chronic stroke. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2005 Mar;19(1):14-9. doi: 10.1177/1545968304272698.
• Background Hummel FC, Voller B, Celnik P, Floel A, Giraux P, Gerloff C, Cohen LG. Effects of brain polarization on reaction times and pinch force in chronic stroke. BMC Neurosci. 2006 Nov 3;7:73. doi: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-73.
• Background Plewnia C, Hoppe J, Gerloff C. No effects of enhanced central norepinephrine on finger-sequence learning and attention. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2006 Aug;187(2):260-5. doi: 10.1007/s00213-006-0420-5. Epub 2006 Jun 10.
• Background Plewnia C, Hoppe J, Cohen LG, Gerloff C. Improved motor skill acquisition after selective stimulation of central norepinephrine. Neurology. 2004 Jun 8;62(11):2124-6. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000128041.92710.17.
• Background Plewnia C, Hoppe J, Hiemke C, Bartels M, Cohen LG, Gerloff C. Enhancement of human cortico-motoneuronal excitability by the selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor reboxetine. Neurosci Lett. 2002 Sep 27;330(3):231-4. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00803-0.
• Elsner B, Kugler J, Pohl M, Mehrholz J. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for improving activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning, in people after stroke. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Nov 11;11(11):CD009645. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009645.pub4.

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