ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019
Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Cocaine Use Disorder: A Pilot Study.
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- Brain connectomics markers for response prediction to transcranial magnetic stimulation in cocaine use disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of intermittent theta burst stimulation to the medial prefrontal cortex for tobacco use disorder: Clinical efficacy and safety.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Trial
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cocaine use disorder and the risk of seizure: a review of the evidence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Non-invasive neurostimulation techniques for the treatment of stimulant use disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for substance use disorders and chronic pain: A review of the evidence and call for increased mechanistic understanding.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Treating Alcohol Use Disorder: Neural Mechanisms, Efficacy, and Future Directions.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Review
- Harnessing neuroimaging-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation for precision therapy in substance use disorders.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Abnormal ventromedial-to-dorsolateral hierarchical topography of striatal circuits in cocaine use disorder and its modulations by brain stimulation.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- The effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on resting-state brain entropy (BEN).Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
- Dynamic brain network reconfiguration following rTMS in males with cocaine use disorder.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurovascular effects of cocaine: relevance to addiction.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Tool to Promote Smoking Cessation and Decrease Drug and Alcohol Use.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Sex differences in synaptic plasticity underlying learning.Journal of neuroscience research · 2023Review
- Substance Use and Addiction in Athletes: The Case for Neuromodulation and Beyond.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation vs. High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Methamphetamine Patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Novel Non-invasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Treatment of depression in the elderly with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation using theta-burst stimulation: Study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is earning a role in the therapeutic arsenal of cocaine use disorder (CUD). A widespread and still growing number of studies have reported beneficial use of repeated TMS (rTMS) in reduction of craving, intake and cue-induced craving in cocaine addicts. In spite of these encouraging findings, many issues are still unresolved such as brain area to be stimulated, laterality of the effects, coil geometry and stimulation protocols/parameters. Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) is a more tolerable protocol administered at lower intensities and shorter intervals than conventional rTMS protocols. Yet, its effects on cocaine craving and length of abstinence in comparison with standard high frequency (10-15 Hz) protocols have never been evaluated so far. In the present paper, we describe the effect of the bilateral iTBS of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in a population (
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