Commentary: Clinical Improvements in Comorbid Gambling/Cocaine Use Disorder (GD/CUD) Patients Undergoing Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)

• Published in: Frontiers in neural circuits Vol. 14; p. 39
• Main Authors: Ou, Hang, Zhang, Yi, He, Weiqi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Research Foundation 24.07.2020; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: Addictions; Addictive behaviors; Addicts; Amphetamines; Anxiety; Brain research; clinical improvement; Cocaine; comorbid gambling/cocaine use disorder; Comorbidity; Dopamine; Drug addiction; Drug use; Gambling; gambling disorder; Impulsive behavior; Impulsivity; Magnetic fields; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Methamphetamine; neuromodulation; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Patients; Personality; Psychiatry; Sleep; Studies; Substance abuse treatment; substance use disorder; Temporal perception; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; neuromodulation; comorbid gambling/cocaine use disorder; clinical improvement; substance use disorder; transcranial magnetic stimulation; gambling disorder
• ISSN: 1662-5110; 1662-5110
• DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2020.00039

[...]their level of gambling severity and cocaine craving, as well as sleep quality and other negative symptoms, was assessed using the Gambling-Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS), Cocaine Craving Questionnaire (CCQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and Symptoms checklist-90 (SCL-90), respectively. Five days after the first treatment, their level of both cocaine craving and gambling severity dropped dramatically and stayed stable over time. [...]negative symptoms including sleep disturbance, depression, and anxiety significantly decreased compared with the baseline as reflected in their PSQI, BDI, and SAS scores. According to these studies, individuals with SDPG have elevated impulsivity personality trait than those with SD when assessed by the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) (Krmpotich et al., 2015), Stanford Time Perception Inventory (STPI), and Eysenck and Barratt scales (Petry, 2001). [...]considering the heterogeneity of addicts and types of addictions, patients with comorbid CUD and GD present only one subtype of addiction. [...]it should be careful to generalize such results of Cardullo's article to other types of addictions.