Clinical Trial: Open-label Feasibility Trial of HD-tDCS During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Cocaine Use Disorder

U.S., Sept. 19 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07829263) titled 'Open-label Feasibility Trial of HD-tDCS During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Cocaine Use Disorder' on Sept. 14.

Brief Summary: Cocaine Use Disorder (CocUD) is a significant public health issue with increasing cocaine-related overdose mortality. Effective treatments for CocUD are highly needed. One understudied target for CocUD therapeutics is improving cognitive function (CF) in that key theories attribute development of CocUD and other substance use disorders (SUD) to impaired CF, such as decreased ability to inhibit behavior. Heavy cocaine users show impairments in attention, working memory, planning, and response inhibition, ...