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The use of crack-cocaine is growing at alarming rate in our country and it is absolutely worrisome the fast establishment of addiction to it. Its immediate effects, that are intense and extremely fleeting, increase dramatically the probability of this drug to be consumed again, settling quickly down the loss of control and the compulsive use, turning the effects of this drug highly addictive. Parallel to this process, brain damages are quickly established, progressing to severe impairments of frontal functions, leading to the lack of cognitive control that feeds back and aggravates the dependence, and hampers any therapeutic approach. The existing treatments have not proved to be satisfactory yet. Thus, considering that a new modality of treatment, based on the neuromodulation induced by noninvasive brain stimulation, has been useful in treating various neuropsychiatric conditions, this study will examine the potential beneficial effects of repeated transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the treatment of crack-cocaine addiction.


Clinical Trial Description

Forty subjects between 18 and 60 years old, both genders, with a diagnosis of dependence on crack-cocaine, evaluated for the first time at the Center for Psychosocial Care for Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAPS-AD, in Portuguese) in the municipality of Serra, ES, Brazil, will be invited to participate in this study. After triage, following the inclusion and exclusion criteria, they will be informed in details about the experimental protocol and, if they agree to participate, it will be required to sign an Informed Consent. It Will be applied a structured anamnesis, made a psychiatric clinical and physical examination. The treatment will be started with regular medications for abstinence and comorbidities and psychosocial approaches usually done in the CAPS-AD. After selected they will be referred to the Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Neuropsychopharmacology of the Postgraduate Program in Physiological Sciences from Health Sciences Center of Federal University of Espírito Santo where they will be semi-randomly (matched for age, gender and sociodemographic characteristics) distributed into two different groups: (A) sham-tDCS (n = 20) and (B) active-tDCS (n = 20); and they will follow for 10 applications in daily sessions, excepting on weekends, of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS, 5 x 7 cm2, 2 mA, 20 min) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or sham procedure. Event-related potentials (ERP) will be recorded before, during and after brain stimulation or sham procedure under random presentation of three related images and three non-related images to crack use. The compulsive behavior will be evaluated before and after the ERP records. Cognitive tests which assess mental function, frontal function, visuospatial and verbal working memory, inhibition, and conflict resolution will be performed. The depression will be assessed during the treatment, and the addicted subjects will be evaluated once a week for four consecutive weeks after a series of applications of sham-tDCS or active-tDCS. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT01337297
Study type Interventional
Source Federal University of Espirito Santo
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date June 2011
Completion date May 2013

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