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The proposed research program will investigate the changes in brain chemistry and circuitry that 're-wire' the brain during chronic cocaine use, promote relapse, and complicate treatment efforts. Currently-using and non-treatment-seeking individuals with a cocaine use disorder will undergo a cocaine self-administration paradigm 2-5 days prior to completing positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).


Clinical Trial Description

Cocaine use disorder (CUD) remains a significant public health concern that is resistant to current treatments. Challenges to treating CUD include an imbalance in neurobiological systems that 're-wire' the brain such that appetitive and habitual processes influence decision-making and behavior. This research project aims to provide insight into this reorganized circuitry in CUD by investigating neurofunctional systems related to glutamatergic plasticity and functional brain networks during initial (2-5 days) abstinence. To target this potentially critical period of recovery, currently-using and non-treatment-seeking individuals with CUD will undergo a cocaine self-administration paradigm 2-5 days prior to completing [18F]FPEB positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Healthy comparison (HC) subjects that have participated in [18F]FPEB PET as part of other Yale approved protocols will be recruited to participate in the fMRI portion of this study. Aim 1: To determine the availability of mGluR5 using [18F]FPEB PET during initial abstinence in individuals with CUD. The investigators hypothesize individuals with CUD, relative to HC, will exhibit concurrently and regionally specific increases (e.g., in the striatum) and decreases (e.g., in the prefrontal cortex) in mGluR5 availability. Aim 2: To determine patterns of resting-state, response-inhibition, an automaticity related connectivity within and between large-scale functional networks using fMRI during initial abstinence in individuals with CUD. The investigators hypothesize network-based analyses of fMRI will reveal lower frontoparietal and greater limbic network modulation in CUD as compared to HC. Aim 3: To explore the relationships between mGluR5 availability and functional network activity during initial abstinence in individuals with CUD. The investigators will perform multi-modal analysis of PET and fMRI data to examine links between molecular and functional systems in CUD using emerging 'fusion' approaches. While exploratory in nature, the investigators expect to find links between alterations in mGluR5 systems and functional reorganization in CUD (e.g., greater dorsostriatal mGluR5 may be linked to blunted frontoparietal inhibition). Aim 4: To explore the relationships between mGluR5 availability, functional network activity (and their linkages) with cocaine self-administration, disease severity and chronicity, and psychometric assessments of impulsivity and compulsivity. While exploratory in nature, the investigators expect more substantial neurofunctional alterations during initial abstinence will be associated with greater cocaine self-administration, disease severity, impulsivity and compulsivity in individuals with CUD. ;


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NCT number NCT03471182
Study type Interventional
Source Yale University
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 1
Start date February 26, 2018
Completion date August 18, 2022

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