Friday 13 December 2019

Road map for TMS and schizophrenia project in Iceland

Reykjavík University, Iceland

by Ovidiu C. Banea

On June 2018 a project dedicated to schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations and their treatment with trans-cranial magnetic stimulation started in Iceland. 
The perfect coordination between researchers from Kleppur Psychiatric Hospital, Biomedical and Neural Engineering Institute at Reykjavík University, School of Business - Department of Psychology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Bethesda, United States and Clinical Neurophysiology Unit from National University Hospital - Landspítali Iceland made possible the recruitment and treatment of 12 patients with consequent analyses with multi-metric approach.
Measurements of the brain activity was performed before and after the treatment with P50, N100-P300 complex, resting state and auditory motor-task with 256 High Density-EEG recordings, cortical silent period and psychometric scales.
The team could organize and present their methodology, results and preliminary data in 14 original works during several local and international meetings in France, Japan, Poland, Portugal and Austria (see all works here).


On 13th of December we met at Reykjavik University and we discussed the detailed of the most important aspects of the AVH-TMS Icelandic Clinical trial - publishing the results in a peer review international journals. Two teams were formed, one at Reykjavik University and one at University National Hospital. The first team will process event related potential results at BNE and the second team will put together all data obtained at Fossvogur Landspítali and at Kleppur Psychiatric Hospital. By the end of January 2020 the process structure and software analyses will start.

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