NCT01259362

Effects of Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on the Treatment of Cocaine Addicted Patients

Efeitos da Estimulacao Magnetica Transcrania de Repeticao ( EMTr) no Tratamento da Dependencia ao Uso de Cocaina

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cocaine addiction is a serious disease. Nowadays we still have no efficient method reducing craving and extending the abstinence period of this patients during treatment. The aim of this study is to evaluate reduction if craving and other parameters related to addiction within this group of patients through a treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Detailed description

Patients are going to submitted do a course of rTMS of one month, each session up to 15 minutes. After the rTMS they are going to be offered cognitive therapy to prevent relapse. The area stimulated is the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex. This technique was employed in previous studies and the risks are insignificant.

Conditions

• Cocaine Addiction
• Treatment
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimilation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	5 Hz, 120 % motor threshold, intertrain interval 20s, number of pulses in train 50.
PROCEDURE	Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	Cocaine addicted will receive 20 sham TMSr

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2010-12-14
• Last updated: 2010-12-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil