NCT01274988

Deep Brain Stimulation of Nucleus Accumbens to Prevent Opiate Relapse

Deep Brain Stimulation of Nucleus Accumbens as a New Treatment to Prevent Relapse for Opiate Addicts

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tang-Du Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nucleus accumbens plays important roles in the process of opiate addiction and initial of relapse after detoxification, deep brain stimulation of nucleus accumbens will inhibit its activity and thus to effectively prevent the relapse of the opiate dependence.

Conditions

• Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Deep brain stimulation	Deep brain stimulation of bilateral nucleus accumbens
OTHER	methadone maintenance treatment	methadone maintenance treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2011-01-12
• Last updated: 2014-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China