rTMS-enhanced Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
NCT ID: NCT06259851
Last Updated: 2025-09-29
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Basic Information
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ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
NA
60 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2023-08-20
2026-12-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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NON_RANDOMIZED
FACTORIAL
TREATMENT
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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rTMS-DBT group
Patients receiving combined DBT and active prefrontal rTMS treatment
Dialectical behavioral therapy program
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) program with all the standard DBT modules (individual therapy 1 hour per week, skills group 3 hours per week, phone coaching, and therapist consultation team 1,5 hour per week). The program takes 24 weeks in total comprising two 12-week runs of skills training. The program will be precluded with 4 individual sessions of pretreatment before the start of the main program part.
Prefrontal rTMS treatment
rTMS will be performed by DuoMag XT with 70BF cool coil. Patients will undergo 15 daily stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds. Gradual titration of the individual resting motor threshold (RMT) will apply, meaning probands will undergo first session with 90% RMT intensity, second session with 100% RMT intensity, third session with 110% RMT intensity. All the following sessions will use the final 120% RMT intensity. In case a session is left out because of any reason, the total duration of treatment will be prolonged by one day, so that the total number of sessions underwent is the same in all patients. Patients will receive 2000 pulses during one session (total 30000 pulses during the whole procedure) with 10 Hz frequency.
Sham-DBT group
Patients receiving combined DBT and sham rTMS treatment
Dialectical behavioral therapy program
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) program with all the standard DBT modules (individual therapy 1 hour per week, skills group 3 hours per week, phone coaching, and therapist consultation team 1,5 hour per week). The program takes 24 weeks in total comprising two 12-week runs of skills training. The program will be precluded with 4 individual sessions of pretreatment before the start of the main program part.
Sham rTMS sessions
Sham TMS will be performed by sham coil that looks identical to DuoMag XT in the active group. Patients will undergo 15 daily sham stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds.
rTMS-only group
Patients receiving only active prefrontal rTMS treatment
Prefrontal rTMS treatment
rTMS will be performed by DuoMag XT with 70BF cool coil. Patients will undergo 15 daily stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds. Gradual titration of the individual resting motor threshold (RMT) will apply, meaning probands will undergo first session with 90% RMT intensity, second session with 100% RMT intensity, third session with 110% RMT intensity. All the following sessions will use the final 120% RMT intensity. In case a session is left out because of any reason, the total duration of treatment will be prolonged by one day, so that the total number of sessions underwent is the same in all patients. Patients will receive 2000 pulses during one session (total 30000 pulses during the whole procedure) with 10 Hz frequency.
sham-only group
Patients receiving only sham rTMS treatment
Sham rTMS sessions
Sham TMS will be performed by sham coil that looks identical to DuoMag XT in the active group. Patients will undergo 15 daily sham stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds.
Interventions
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Dialectical behavioral therapy program
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) program with all the standard DBT modules (individual therapy 1 hour per week, skills group 3 hours per week, phone coaching, and therapist consultation team 1,5 hour per week). The program takes 24 weeks in total comprising two 12-week runs of skills training. The program will be precluded with 4 individual sessions of pretreatment before the start of the main program part.
Prefrontal rTMS treatment
rTMS will be performed by DuoMag XT with 70BF cool coil. Patients will undergo 15 daily stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds. Gradual titration of the individual resting motor threshold (RMT) will apply, meaning probands will undergo first session with 90% RMT intensity, second session with 100% RMT intensity, third session with 110% RMT intensity. All the following sessions will use the final 120% RMT intensity. In case a session is left out because of any reason, the total duration of treatment will be prolonged by one day, so that the total number of sessions underwent is the same in all patients. Patients will receive 2000 pulses during one session (total 30000 pulses during the whole procedure) with 10 Hz frequency.
Sham rTMS sessions
Sham TMS will be performed by sham coil that looks identical to DuoMag XT in the active group. Patients will undergo 15 daily sham stimulation sessions during a period of three weeks with one session each working day. Each session consists of 20 trains with 100 pulses (10 seconds for train). Inter-train interval will be 30 seconds.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* minimum age 16, informed consent of the patient
* informed consent of patient's legal representative in case of patients under age 18
Exclusion Criteria
* comorbid affective disorder or schizophrenia-related disorder
* intelligence quotient\<70
* contraindications for MRI measurement
* contraindication for rTMS treatment
* pregnancy
16 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Brno University Hospital
OTHER
Masaryk University
OTHER
Masarykova Univerzita
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Libor Ustohal, prof, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University Hospital Brno
Locations
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Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Brno and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University
Brno, , Czechia
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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NU23-04-00472
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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