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tDCS and Cognitive Training Intervention for Chronic Smokers With Schizophrenia

NCT03588728 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2023-03-13

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Summary

This study is being done to develop new methods to help smokers with schizophrenia to successfully reduce their smoking and/or quit. This is not a treatment study, but will help find new techniques to create better treatments. Specifically, the investigators are interested in learning more about how thoughts and attention problems associated with schizophrenia might play a role in smoking, as well as the impact of cognitive (thinking, reasoning, and remembering) training and brain stimulation on these symptoms and on actual smoking.

Conditions

  • Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
  • Smoking, Cigarette
  • Schizophrenia

Interventions

OTHER

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the right inferior frontal gyrus

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Remediation (CR)

Cognitive exercises on a computer designed to increase attention, memory, and processing speed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cynthia Conklin, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-07-23
Primary Completion
2020-03-12
Completion
2020-03-12

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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