Interventional Recruiting
NCT05738174 on ClinicalTrials.gov
High-dose Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation for the Treatment of Alcohol Addiction
Official title: Theta Burst Zur Behandlung Der Alkoholabhängigkeit
- Sponsor: Edna Pasher Ph.D & Associates (Israel)
- Enrollment: 72 (Estimated)
- Study start: 2023-03-01 (Actual)
- Primary completion: 2025-12-30 (Estimated)
- Study completion: 2026-02-28 (Estimated)
- Allocation: Randomized
- InterventionModel: Parallel
- Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
- PrimaryPurpose: Treatment
Brief Summary
This is a two-arm randomized placebo-controlled trial in which 72 patients with alcohol addiction are treated with high-dose accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (TBS).
Conditions
- Alcohol Dependence
Intervention / Treatment
- Device: high-dose accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation
- Device: sham high-dose accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation
Primary Outcome Measures
-
Craving visual analoge scale
(one week)
alcohol craving according to visual analog scale (range: 0-100; higher values = worse outcome)
Countries
Germany
Locations and Investigators
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (Recruiting)