The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Location status: Recruiting
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Jessica Vincent
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Joy M Schmitz, PhD
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NCT Number: NCT07490600
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of Contingency Management (CM)+transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on treatment outcomes in individuals who are initial non-responders and to evaluate the effects of CM+TMS on putative mechanisms of change
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Request Info18 year–65 year
All sexes
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Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Jessica Vincent
CONTACT
Joy M Schmitz, PhD
CONTACT
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
Acceptable contraceptives include:
Contraceptive measures sold for emergency use after unprotected sex are not acceptable methods for routine use.
Exclusion criteria
v. Methylphenidate i. tramadol j. isoniazid.
Participants will have thrice-weekly (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) clinic visits, during which participants can earn rewards for submitting a cocaine-negative UDS.CM sessions will consist of the following components: 1) brief discussion of any substance use/cravings since prior CM session; 2) verification that the target behavior (abstinence) was achieved; 3) if achieved, provide incentives and discuss individual plans to use the earnings; 4) if not achieved, review the goals of CM and plans to continue engaging in treatment.
The sham stimulations with negligible induced electric fields, delivered via the same H4 coil to mimic the acoustic characteristics and scalp sensations of active H4 will be used.
Participants will sit comfortably in a chair with head support and wear protective earplugs. A Brainsway Deep TMS system model 104 with an H4 coil will be used. Following the standardized procedure, the H4 coil is held by a mechanical arm and positioned 6 cm anterior to the motor spot.Duration: The proposed H4 coil-delivered accelerated TMS protocol will use iTBS for 3 sessions a day, 3 days a week, for 6 weeks (54 sessions) followed by two weeks of 3 sessions a day (6 additional maintenance sessions). For each iTBS session, bursts of 3 pulses at 50 Hz are repeated at 5 Hz as a train for 2 seconds. The intertrain interval is 8 seconds. There are 20 trains lasting 192 seconds (600 pulses) per session. Each visit day includes 3 iTBS sessions (i.e., accelerated iTBS) 30 minutes apart,96 lasting approximately ~70 minutes per visit.
Time frame: from Baseline to Week 11
this will be measured measured 3 times per week throughout the study
Time frame: from Baseline to Week 11
this will be administered weekly. This is a 45 item questionnaire and each is scored on a Likert scale from 1( strongly disagree), to 7(strongly agree). Score range is 45 (minimum) - 315 (maximum).Higher scores indicate greater cocaine craving.
Time frame: Baseline, Week 2, Week 11
Cue-induced craving will be assessed with a 100-pt Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) that will ask "How much are you craving cocaine right now?" before and after exposure to an EEG Picture Viewing Task that will display cocaine, emotional, and neutral images. Higher score indicates more craving.
Time frame: Baseline, Week 2, Week 11
The Picture Viewing Task will be used to elicit the late positive potential (LPP), reflecting the motivational salience of a stimulus. During this task, participants are asked to view a slideshow of images including pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, and cocaine-related images. The amplitude of the LPP in microvolts in response to visual stimuli is reported.
Time frame: Baseline, Week 2, Week 11
Functional connectivity between bilateral anterior insula and central amygdala regions will be quantified using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and seed-based connectivity analysis.
Time frame: Baseline, Week 2, Week 11
The Phenotype Assessment Battery (PhAB) assesses addiction-related domains including cognition, reward processing, and negative emotionality using a standardized battery of behavioral tasks and self-report measures. Individual measure scores are calculated according to established scoring procedures and converted to standardized scores. Standardized scores within each domain are combined to generate domain-specific composite scores. Composite scores are continuous measures without a fixed range, with higher scores indicating greater impairment within the respective domain.
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Jessica Vincent
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Joy M Schmitz, PhD
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The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
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Contingency Management Plus Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment
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