Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "craving"
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Heart rate variability biofeedback in patients with alcohol dependence: a randomized controlled study
(Dove Medical Press, 2015)Background and objective In patients with alcohol dependence, ethyl-toxic damage of vasomotor and cardiac autonomic nerve fibers leads to autonomic imbalance with neurovascular and cardiac dysfunction, the latter resulting ... -
A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Targeted Prefrontal Cortex Modulation with Bilateral tDCS in Patients with Crack-Cocaine Dependence
(Oxford University Press, 2015)Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex has been shown to be clinically useful in the treatment of drug addiction. Methods: We conducted a double-blind randomized clinical ... -
The Use of Virtual Reality in Craving Assessment and Cue-Exposure Therapy in Substance Use Disorders
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)Craving is recognized as an important diagnosis criterion for substance use disorders (SUDs) and a predictive factor of relapse. Various methods to study craving exist; however, suppressing craving to successfully promote ...