Clinical Trial: A Relation Between Craving Induction and Treatment Response in Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) for Reducing Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain in Schizophrenia

U.S., Sept. 9 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07805980) titled 'A Relation Between Craving Induction and Treatment Response in Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) for Reducing Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain in Schizophrenia' on Aug. 26.

Brief Summary: Antipsychotic-induced metabolic disturbances, especially weight gain, are common in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, it is reported significant changes in food intake happened in patients with weight gain after intaking antipsychotics. There are no hitherto effective treatments for reducing antipsychotic-induced weight gain. dTMS which is a safe and non-invasive physical treatment indicates greater efficacy than other transcra...