New device aims to strengthen Self-Control and fight food cravings
NCT ID NCT07056036
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This completed study tested a device called ExoMIND (BTL-699-2) in 51 adults over age 22 to see if it could improve willpower, self-control, and reduce food cravings. Participants received six treatments and filled out questionnaires about self-control and cravings. The study measured changes in scores over three months to see if the device helped.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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51 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Nov 2024
- Finished
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Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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22 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 22 years * Ability to determine the motor threshold of the participant. The participant's motor threshold could be established as the minimum stimulus required to induce contraction of the right thumb * Subjects willing and able to abstain from partaking in any treatments other than the study procedure for the improvement of willpower and self-control and rI eduction of food cravings, including non-invasive brain stimulation treatments other than the study procedure during study participation * Subjects willing and able to maintain their regular (pre-procedure) exercise regimen without affecting significant change in either direction during study participation * Willingness to comply with study instructions and to return to the clinic for the required visits * Women of child-bearing potential\* are required to use birth control measures during the whole duration of the study * If applicable, subjects will be maintained on pre-study prescribed medications at a stable therapeutic dosage for at least 2 months prior to study entry Exclusion Criteria: * Electronic implants (Implanted stimulator devices in or near the head - rTMS devices are contraindicated for use in patients who have active or inactive implants (including device leads), deep brain stimulators, cochlear implants, ocular implant, and vagus nerve stimulators, implanted devices such as cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators, neurostimulators. Contraindicated use could result in serious injury or death. * Metallic, conductive, ferromagnetic or other magnetic sensitive implants/objects in the head or within 30 cm of the treatment coil (examples include implanted electrodes/stimulators, aneurysm clips or coils, stents, bullet fragments, jewelry and hair barrettes) with some exceptions in the mouth as standard amalgam dental fillings, single post dental implants, and dental bridge work. Failure to follow this restriction could result in serious injury or death. * Drug pump(s) * Application in the heart area * Persons with a tendency to seizure (hypotonic, epileptic), or a personal history of epilepsy * Ongoing anticoagulation therapy * Ongoing severe or life-threatening condition * Pulmonary insufficiency * Heart disorders * Renal insufficiency * Decompensated\* hemorrhagic conditions, blood coagulation disorders, cardiovascular diseases * Malignant or benign tumor * Fever * Ongoing pregnancy or nursing * Ongoing intake disorders such as bulimia or anorexia * Diagnosis of major depression, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic disorder or current psychotic symptoms, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder * Personal history of syncope (except the reflex syncope) * Vascular, traumatic, tumoral, infectious, or metabolic lesion of the brain, even without a history of seizure, and without anticonvulsant medication * Withdrawal from one of the following drugs could form a relative hazard for the application of rTMS due to the resulting significant seizure threshold lowering potential: (e.g. alcohol, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, meprobamate, chloralhydrate etc.) * Systemic infection * Patients with a broad range of neuropsychiatric diseases are at elevated risk for seizures. Essentially all neurologic conditions with structural cerebral damage (e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, meningoencephalitis or intracerebral abscess, parenchymal or leptomeningeal cancers) * History of hyponatremia, hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, renal failure/uremia, liver failure * History of tendency for raised blood concentrations of pro-convulsant medications due to reduced clearance * Immunosuppressive therapy with cyclosporine, tacrolimus and other agents that can cause the posterior reversible leukoencephalopathy syndrome * The use of methamphetamine, barbiturates, cocaine metabolites, opiates and phencyclidine 72 hours before the therapy * Contradictions for the testing used in the trial, for example, the motor threshold cannot be found or quantified.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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A New You Wellness
Miami, Florida, 33156, United States
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Aria Integrative Health
Denver, Colorado, 80211, United States
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Cady Wellness Institute
Newburgh, Indiana, 47630, United States
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Jiva Med Spa
Columbus, Ohio, 43215, United States
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