Clinical trials: Craving
Drug-withdrawal., Drug Abuse
Clinical Studies on the Therapeutic Effects of Mirtazapine on Drug-craving in Cocaine Addicts.
INTRODUCTION. One of the main problems of the treatment of cocaine-dependent patients is the high rate of relapses occurs within the first months after detoxification.
- Conditions
- Drug-withdrawal., Drug Abuse, Drug-induced Depressive State, AOD Craving
- Trial name
- MADC (NCT01949571)
- Testing
- Mirtazapine (REMERON, Schering-Plough-Organon)
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 64 people
- Sponsor
- Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Dr. Ramón de la Fuente
Misuse, Opioid
Effect of Olanzapine on Opioid Craving and Misuse Among Patients Receiving Opioids for Cancer-related Pain: A Pilot Double-Blind, Randomized Control Trial
To learn about the effectiveness of taking the antipsychotic medication olanzapine to help lower opioid craving.
- Trial name
- NCT06200181
- Testing
- Olanzapine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 69 people
- Sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Healthy Participants
Physiological and Neurocognitive Responses to Multisensory Food Cues in VR
This study aims to investigate how food cravings change when visual food cues are enriched with sound, smell, and interactive experiences in a virtual reality (VR) environment.
- Trial name
- NCT07320209
- Testing
- Real food, Virtual Reality Food
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Marmara University
Smoking Reduction, Smoking Behaviors
rTMS-concurrent Behavioral Priming for Reducing Smoking Cravings
The objective of this pilot clinical trial is to test the effects of different types of thinking strategies at the time of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), applied to the left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex…
- Trial name
- NCT06228235
- Testing
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- West Virginia University
Substance Dependency, Addiction
Working Memory Training for Substance Dependent Individuals
Background: Substance abusers show impaired working memory (WM) functioning. Promising findings show training WM results in an improved working memory capacity (WMC) and a decrease of clinical symptoms in a range of disorders…
- Conditions
- Substance Dependency, Addiction, Anxiety, Depression
- Trial name
- NCT02119949
- Testing
- Working memory training
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 180 people
- Sponsor
- Erasmus Medical Center
Nicotine Craving
TNS for Treating Nicotine Craving
Electrical stimulation provides direct modulatory effects on subcortical regions. Indeed, neuroimaging studies show changes in neural activity in specific brain regions such as the amygdala, insula, precentral gyrus, hippocampus…
- Trial name
- TNS-nicotine (NCT02178852)
- Testing
- TRIGEMINAL NERVE STIMULATION (TNS)
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 22 people
- Sponsor
- Santa Casa Medical School
Substance Use Disorders, Eating Disorders
Substance Use and Eating Disorders : Food Craving and Addiction Transfer
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Eating Disorders (ED) are severe and persistent disturbances that are associated with significant harm.
- Trial name
- SUED (NCT05315635)
- Testing
- Questionnaire
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 294 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Charles Perrens, Bordeaux
GLP - 1
Exploring the Influence of Glucagon-like Peptide -1 (GLP-1) Medications on Food Cravings, Food Selection, and Food Intake Following Exposure to Food Advertisements
The purpose of this randomized control trial is to compare how food cravings, food selection, and food consumption change in response to frequent food advertisements compared to non-food advertisements in adults taking GLP-1…
- Trial name
- NCT07505134
- Testing
- Food advertisements, Tech advertisements
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Alcohol Abuse, Craving
Using Neurofeedback to Understand the Relationship Between Stress and Alcohol Consumption
In this research project, the aim is to discover the role specific brain networks play in the relationship between stress reactions and the desire for alcohol and alcohol consumption.
- Conditions
- Alcohol Abuse, Craving, Psychosocial Stressor, Neural Stress Response
- Trial name
- NeuStress (NCT06247306)
- Testing
- ScanSTRESS fMRI-paradigm (Streit et al., 2014), real-time fMRI neurofeedback
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 102 people
- Sponsor
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Smoking Cessation
Study to Evaluate Music Therapy and Nicotine Replacement Therapy on Craving Related to Smoking Cessation in Health Staff
The study is a randomized, controlled trial comparing music therapy associated to NRT versus NRT alone to evaluate the value of music therapy in improving the management of craving among 50 health staff smokers.
- Trial name
- MUSMOKHEALTH (NCT06130423)
- Testing
- Music intervention, Nicotine replacement
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Poitiers University Hospital
Chemsex
Effectiveness of tDCS on Reducing Craving in Patients Practicing Chemsex: a Single-center, Double-blind, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
The aim of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of a new treatment for chemsex or "chemical sex", the use of psychoactive substances to modify sexual experience and performance.
- Trial name
- CHEMSTIM (NCT05945199)
- Testing
- tDCS, Assessment of risk behaviours, Scales
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
Alcohol Use Disorder, Stress Reaction
Psychobiology of Stress and Alcohol Craving
In this feasibility study the investigators are using a setup of stress-related body sensors including established as well as innovative sensor-based measures to identify predictor profiles for alcohol-related behavioral and…
- Conditions
- Alcohol Use Disorder, Stress Reaction, Social Stress, Craving
- Trial name
- NCT03810950
- Testing
- Trier Social Stress Test, Reading Newspaper, Barlab-Exposure
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Type 2 Diabetes
Processed Meat and Brain Regions Related to Reward and Addiction
The purpose of this study is to 1. Compare effects of two isocaloric meals (processed meat hamburger vs. vegetarian sandwich) in response to the postprandial period by using functional brain imaging of reward circuitry implicated…
- Trial name
- RewCrav (NCT02474147)
- Testing
- Processed meat hamburger, Vegan sandwich
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Alcohol-dependence
The Effects of Treatment With Naltrexone in Alcohol and Cannabis-dependent Patients
Alcohol dependence is a major health problem worldwide and recently in Israel and it has major health care costs. Cannabis dependence is also a major health issue and many cannabis users find it difficult to quit.
- Trial name
- NCT01560013
- Testing
- Naltrexone
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tobacco Use Disorder
Modification of Goal-directed and Habitual Behavior in Addiction
This study aims to examine the modification of the hypothesized imbalance between goal-directed and habitual behavior and its neural correlates in smokers.
- Trial name
- NCT03764969
- Testing
- standard smoking cessation program (SCP), Cognitive remediation treatment (CRT), Implicit computer-based habit-modifying training (ICHT)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 75 people
- Sponsor
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Cannabis Use
CanCope: Digital Intervention for Coping With Cannabis Craving
The CanCope Study is a micro-randomized trial conducted to gather evidence about and compare the effectiveness of a momentary intervention to help young adults cope with cannabis cravings as they attempt to reduce their use.
- Trial name
- NCT05328362
- Testing
- CanCope
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- Trustees of Dartmouth College
Craving, Emotional Dysfunction
Process of Regulation in Addictions: Vulnerability Emotional Factors to Craving
The aim of this study is to have a better understanding of the relationship between self-controle difficulties (and more specifically the inhibition deficit in impulsivity), emotional regulation disorders such as alexithymia and…
- Conditions
- Craving, Emotional Dysfunction, Self-Regulation, Emotion, Alexithymia
- Trial name
- Procrav (NCT05076201)
- Testing
- Patients with completed rehab
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- GCS Ramsay Santé pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche
Alcohol Dependence, PTSD
Neuromodulation of Trauma Memories in PTSD & Alcohol Dependence
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of propranolol versus placebo on craving, distress and cue reactivity to trauma and alcohol cues.
- Trial name
- NCT01055171
- Testing
- Propranolol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Medical University of South Carolina
Tobacco Abuse Smoke
Effect of the Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Dependent Smoking People
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of 10 sessions of anodal transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS - 1 mA) applied to left vs right CDLPF of tobacco-dependent subjects compared to the application of a…
- Trial name
- TabaSCo (NCT02867514)
- Testing
- transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Opioid Use Disorder
A Mobile Executive Functioning Intervention for Momentary Craving in Opioid Use Disorders
Even when treated with methadone or buprenorphine maintenance, many people with opioid use disorder (OUD) continue to experience craving.
- Trial name
- NCT05086835
- Testing
- Working Memory Task, Visual Search Task
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- Mclean Hospital