Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) As A Treatment For Cigarette Craving and Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenic
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Brief summary
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This is a study of the effects of tDCS on smoking, craving for cigarettes, cognition, and psychiatric symptoms in schizophrenic patients who are current smokers or have a history of regular cigarette smoking. It assesses smoking with CO monitoring, nicotine and nicotine levels, and craving with QSU scale and response to craving slides. Cognition is measured by MCCB, symptoms are measured by PANSS and hallucination scale. This is a double-blind sham-controlled study with active tDCS 2ma or 20 minutes over 5 days, and sham tDCS for 40 seconds on each sham occasion.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02128919
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 33 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 60 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 31, 2012
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2016
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2016
- Last update posted
- Aug 29, 2017
2012 – 2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research | Orangeburg | New York | 10962 | — |
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