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CompletedNCT03538288

Feasibility Trial of rTMS for Cannabis Use Disorder

A Pilot Trial Determining the Feasibility of Delivering Twenty Treatments of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) to Treatment Seeking Cannabis Use Disordered Participants

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
3 (actual)
Sponsor
Medical University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
Sex
Female
Age
18 Years – 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

This small pilot trial will recruit 10 cannabis use disordered participants and apply 20 sessions of rTMS in conjunction with a two session Brief Marijuana Dependance Counseling treatment paradigm. The investigators are primarily seeking to determine if the proposed paradigm is feasible and well tolerated.

Detailed description

The overarching goal of this proposal is to investigate if a course of excitatory DLPFC rTMS is feasible and well tolerated by a group of treatment seeking CUD patients (Aim1). The investigators are also hoping to preliminarily determine if a course of rTMS reduces cannabis cue-induced craving (Aim2). Additionally the investigators want to preliminarily explore the mechanistic underpinnings of any observed effect by collecting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data during cannabis cue-administration before and after the treatment course (Aim 3). These aims will be addressed through an open label study in which 10 treatment seeking cannabis use disordered participants will be given 20 sessions of Active excitatory rTMS applied to the DLPFC. TMS will be delivered in an accelerated fashion over two weeks (2 sessions each day, five days each week). TMS will be applied in conjunction with a validated two-session Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) behavioral intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICErTMSrTMS will be applied at 10 Hz to the DLPFC

Timeline

Start date
2016-10-01
Primary completion
2017-07-01
Completion
2017-07-01
First posted
2018-05-29
Last updated
2018-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03538288. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.