Clinical trials: Craving
Vagus Nerve Stimulation
How Does Vagus Nerve Stimulation Affect Blood Glucose, Food, and Movement Cravings?
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) to examine physiological and psychological responses in a college-aged healthy population
- Trial name
- NCT07457372
- Testing
- Active taVNS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Minnesota
Internet Gaming Disorder
The Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Internet Gaming Disorder
This study aims to investigate the intervention effects of navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on craving regulation in individuals with internet gaming disorder (IGD).
- Trial name
- NCT06634498
- Testing
- real rTMS on the dlPFC
- Where
- 2 sites in China
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Jin-tao Zhang
Psychoeducation Study
Effect Of Psychoeducation On Substance Craving Levels And Psychological Resilience
What is known on the subject? Substance use disorder is a chronic condition with high relapse risk, and individuals under probation supervision are particularly vulnerable.
- Trial name
- NCT07581353
- Testing
- Structured Psychoeducation Program
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Gaziantep
Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder
Is Craving a Central Criterion for Diagnosing a Behavioral Addiction?
This study is a cross-sectional observational study designed to evaluate the diagnostic criteria for behavioral addictions (gambling, online video game disorder, screen addiction, food addiction, and pathological use of sex…
- Conditions
- Addictive Behaviors, Internet Addiction Disorder, Gambling, Technology Addiction
- Trial name
- CRIBA (NCT07854912)
- Testing
- Questionnaires, Telephone interview
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Bordeaux
Alcohol Dependence
Citalopram Effects on Craving and Dopamine Receptor Availability in Alcoholics
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are highly prevalent among U.S. civilians, and even more prevalent in the U.S. Veteran population. AUDs are frequently co-morbid with depressive symptoms in psychiatric clinical populations, resulting…
- Trial name
- CECDRAAD (NCT01657760)
- Testing
- citalopram
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Nicotine Use Disorder, Tobacco Use Disorder
Evaluation of the Addictive Potential of E-Cigarettes
This study will examine the subject matter from a neurobiological and a neuropsychological vantage point to ascertain whether the e-cigarette is potentially as addictive as the traditional tobacco cigarette.
- Trial name
- EVAPE (NCT04772014)
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Emotional Eating
Mindfulness App for Reducing Food Cravings
More than half of Canadian are overweight or obese and over fifty percent of individuals who are obese are emotional eaters. Emotional eating is defined as the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions and can be…
- Trial name
- NCT05347914
- Testing
- Mindfulness
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Smoking
Insular Inhibitory Neuromodulation to Reduce Cigarette Craving and Alter Brain Function in Smokers
The goal of this study is to determine if a specific experimental brain stimulation technique can be used as a non-invasive way to reduce cigarette cravings in current smokers.
- Trial name
- NCT02590640
- Testing
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, MagStim Rapid2
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Smoking Cessation
Provoked Craving Relief Study by NRT
This study is designed to assess the ability of the mint nicotine mouth strip to relieve provoked cigarette craving in light smokers compared to nicotine lozenge and nicotine gum.
- Trial name
- NRT (NCT01476202)
- Testing
- nicotine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- GlaxoSmithKline
Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Eating Disorder
Pre-therapeutic Validation of the Virtual Reality-based Exposure Scenario for CBT "ReVBED" for the Induction of Food Craving in Patients With Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
Food craving is a major therapeutic issue in Eating Disorders with binge eating: the Bulimia Nervosa and the Binge Eating Disorder (BED).
- Trial name
- RevBED (NCT05385653)
- Testing
- experimentation of the virtual reality "RevBED"
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Smoking, Cigarette, Electronic Cigarette Use
Dual Use of ENDS and Combustible Cigarettes
This study investigates the degree to which shared behavioral processes underlie combustible cigarette (CC) and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use in young adult dual users of these products in both the laboratory and…
- Trial name
- DUET (NCT05280535)
- Testing
- Cue Reactivity Task, Computerized Visual Dot Probe, Choice Task
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 82 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brown University
Alcohol Dependence
Changing the Vulnerable Brain: A Neuromodulation Study in Alcohol Dependence
This current project investigates the effect of a single session of right dlPFC repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on emotion regulation abilities and craving in alcohol dependent patients and healthy controls.
- Trial name
- NCT02557815
- Testing
- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Academisch Medisch Centrum - Universiteit van Amsterdam (AMC-UvA)