This study evaluates de efficacy of 5Hz repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) applied on the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in patients with binge eating disorder.
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) affects a significant percentage of de national population (1.4%) in a portio 2-1 in woman compared with men, the repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is a neuromodulation technique, which allows us to induce brain electrical activity by plating magnetic fields and it has been proven that at 10Hz it has an effect of improvement in the craving of food.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
30
the subjects will receive 1500 or 5000 pulses at 5Hz
Sofía Cañizares Gómez.
Querétaro City, Querétaro, Mexico
Food Craving Inventory (FCI)
The FCI is a self-report inventory designed to measure the food craving, is made up of 37 elements and is a scale-likert instrument.
Time frame: 6 weeks
Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11)
The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale is a questionnaire designed to assess the personality / behavioral construct of impulsiveness is composed of 30 items describing common impulsive or non-impulsive (for reversed scored items) behaviors and preferences .
Time frame: 6 weeks
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