Cocaine addiction is a serious disease. Nowadays we still have no efficient method reducing craving and extending the abstinence period of this patients during treatment. The aim of this study is to evaluate reduction if craving and other parameters related to addiction within this group of patients through a treatment with transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Patients are going to submitted do a course of rTMS of one month, each session up to 15 minutes. After the rTMS they are going to be offered cognitive therapy to prevent relapse. The area stimulated is the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex. This technique was employed in previous studies and the risks are insignificant.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
40
5 Hz, 120 % motor threshold, intertrain interval 20s, number of pulses in train 50.
Cocaine addicted will receive 20 sham TMSr
Department and Institute of Psychiatry, General Hospital, University of Sao Paulo medical school
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
RECRUITINGMinnesota Cocaine Craving Scale(MCCS)
Reduction on the scores of MCCS
Time frame: 2 months
Barrat Impulsiveness Scale vers 11 ( BIS 11)
Reduction of scores of BIS 11.
Time frame: 2 months
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