Dissociable behavioral and physiological correlates of cognitive behavioral therapy and high intensity interval training in cannabis use disorder (C03)

• Subject Area: Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience ; Biological Psychiatry ; Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience ; Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402170461

In the 1st FP we examined the effects of a 12-week aerobic exercise training on alternative reward cue-reactivity and cognitive control in tobacco use disorder. In the 2nd FP we (i) will apply a physical exercise training in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to investigate reward and cognitive control processes in smokers and (ii) we will also investigate these interventions in patients with cannabis use disorder (CUD). Specifically, we hypothesize that the effect of CBT on cannabis abstinence/consumption will be mediated by improved cognitive control processes and reduced social distress, but not by modification of altered reward cue-reactivity.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 265: Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake: From Trajectories to Mechanisms to Interventions
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Felix Bermpohl; Privatdozentin Dr. Christiane Montag, since 7/2023; Professor Dr. Andreas Ströhle