CTRI Number |
CTRI/2016/04/006837 [Registered on: 19/04/2016] Trial Registered Retrospectively |
Last Modified On: |
19/04/2016 |
Post Graduate Thesis |
Yes |
Type of Trial |
Interventional |
Type of Study
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Medical Device |
Study Design |
Randomized, Parallel Group, Placebo Controlled Trial |
Public Title of Study
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Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) treatment in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. |
Scientific Title of Study
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A double blind randomised sham controlled study to examine clinical and neuro-cognitive benefits of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in Obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD) |
Trial Acronym |
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Secondary IDs if Any
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Secondary ID |
Identifier |
Not Applicable |
NIL |
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Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)
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Name |
SHAYANTH M |
Designation |
Junior Resident |
Affiliation |
NIMHANS |
Address |
Department of psychiatry,NIMHANS campus,hosur road near dairy circle,bangalore-560029
Bangalore KARNATAKA 560029 India |
Phone |
9738782373 |
Fax |
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Email |
rushtoshayanth@gmail.com |
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Details of Contact Person Scientific Query
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Name |
Dr Y C Janardhan Reddy |
Designation |
Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences |
Affiliation |
NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences) |
Address |
Department of psychiatry,NIMHANS campus,hosur road near dairy circle,bangalore. Department of psychiatry,NIMHANS campus,hosur road near dairy circle,bangalore. Bangalore KARNATAKA 560029 India |
Phone |
9480829472 |
Fax |
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Email |
ycjreddy@gmail.com |
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Details of Contact Person Public Query
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Name |
Dr Jhanardhanan |
Designation |
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences |
Affiliation |
NIMHANS( National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences) |
Address |
Department of psychiatry,NIMHANS campus,hosur road near dairy circle,bangalore-560029 Department of psychiatry,NIMHANS campus,hosur road near dairy circle,bangalore-560029 Bangalore KARNATAKA 560029 India |
Phone |
9480829786 |
Fax |
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Email |
jairamnimhans@gmail.com |
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Source of Monetary or Material Support
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Primary Sponsor
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Name |
Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences |
Address |
Department Of psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS), Bangalore-560029, Karnataka |
Type of Sponsor |
Research institution and hospital |
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Details of Secondary Sponsor
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Countries of Recruitment
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India |
Sites of Study
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No of Sites = 1 |
Name of Principal
Investigator |
Name of Site |
Site Address |
Phone/Fax/Email |
Shayanth |
Biolab B block ground floor special ward block,Department of psychiatry, NIMHANS |
Department of psychiatry, NIMHANS(National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences),Bangalore-560029. Bangalore KARNATAKA |
9738782373
rushtoshayanth@gmail.com |
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Details of Ethics Committee
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No of Ethics Committees= 1 |
Name of Committee |
Approval Status |
NIMHANS Institute Ethics Committee |
Approved |
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Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI
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Health Condition / Problems Studied
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Health Type |
Condition |
Patients |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder(OCD), |
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Intervention / Comparator Agent
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Type |
Name |
Details |
Comparator Agent |
sham tDCS(Trans-cranial direct current stimulation) |
For the sham tDCS condition, the actual stimulation of 2mA will last only for 40 seconds and a small current pulse of 110µA of 15 msec will occur every 550 msec |
Intervention |
Trans-cranial Direct Current Stimulation(tDCS) |
Is a non-invasive neuromodulatory brain stimulation technique that delivers low intensity,direct current to cortical areas facilitating or inhibiting spontaneous neuronal activity.
tDCS application as follows-Real and sham tDCS procedures will be done as per established guidelines with stringent safety standards. The anodal stimulation site (left Pre-SMA/SMA) will be localized (10-20 system) with midpoint of inner edge of electrode (35-cm2) placed over Fz;cathode would be placed over the right supra-orbital area. For the true tDCS condition, the stimulation would be done with 2mA 20-minute twice daily sessions separated by atleast 3-hours for 5 days. |
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Inclusion Criteria
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Age From |
18.00 Year(s) |
Age To |
45.00 Year(s) |
Gender |
Both |
Details |
1)Diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)as per DSM-V criteria (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, American Psychiatric Association, 2013)
2)If the participants are on medications, they would need to be on stable dose of SSRI for atleast 3 months
3)Clinically Significant OCD as evidenced by a cut-off YBOCS severity score of ≥16
Age range: 18 – 45 years; 6) Both sexes; 7) Right Handedness and 8) Written informed consent. |
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ExclusionCriteria |
Details |
1) Features suggestive of psychiatric emergency (for example: suicidal risk, aggression, excitement, catatonia, prolonged nutritional deprivation or any other status requiring intensive clinical care),
2) Any contraindication to tDCS procedure – (i) metallic implants in the head, (ii) implanted brain medical devices, (iii) local lesion or injury in the scalp / head, 3) Co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses such as psychosis, bipolar disorder, substance dependence (including nicotine dependence) 4) Mental retardation, neurological disorders and other organic brain disorders 5) Left Handedness. |
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Method of Generating Random Sequence
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Computer generated randomization |
Method of Concealment
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Other |
Blinding/Masking
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Participant, Investigator, Outcome Assessor and Date-entry Operator Blinded |
Primary Outcome
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Outcome |
TimePoints |
Degree(Severity) of Obsessive and compulsive symptoms
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Daily before next tDCS sessions
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Secondary Outcome
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Outcome |
TimePoints |
Cognition |
Twice. Before intervention and after intervention |
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Target Sample Size
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Total Sample Size="35" Sample Size from India="35"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials" |
Phase of Trial
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N/A |
Date of First Enrollment (India)
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01/12/2015 |
Date of Study Completion (India) |
Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials |
Date of First Enrollment (Global) |
Date Missing |
Date of Study Completion (Global) |
Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials |
Estimated Duration of Trial
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Years="1" Months="0" Days="0" |
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
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Not Applicable |
Recruitment Status of Trial (India) |
Open to Recruitment |
Publication Details
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No publications yet |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement
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Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?
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Brief Summary
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BACKGROUND Obsessive compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common and often debilitating anxiety disorder with a chronic, sometimes life-long course. OCD is characterized by recurrent, intrusive, anxiety-provoking thoughts called the obsessions and the compulsive/neutralising behaviours aimed at reducing distress or preventing dreaded events. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) form the mainstay of treatment for this condition . However, nearly 40 to 60 % of patients do not respond satisfactorily to SSRIs . Thus, treatment resistance is a very common phenomenon leading to significant treatment burden. In neuropsychological studies of OCD, the consistent deficits that emerge can be broadly classified as memory & executive function deficits and emotion & reward system deficits. Deficits in non-verbal memory and certain executive functions have been widely reported in OCD . The neuropsychological deficits in OCD suggest abnormalities in specific brain circuits namely the fronto-striato-pallido-thalamo frontal loop. These are the brain regions involved in the important cognitive functions postulated to be abnormal in OCD response inhibition, error monitoring and executive functioning . This consists of a series of parallel segregated frontal-subcortical circuits now known to link specific regions of the frontal cortex to the striatum, the globus pallidus and substantia nigra, and the thalamus. Congruent with the neurocognitive findings, the structural imaging studies have pointed involvement of areas in the fronto-subcortical region as well as some other posterior areas in OCD as neurobiological substrates . Consistently in structural MRI studies, it has been shown that there are deficits involving the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) , cingulated cortex as well as striatal regions in OCD compared to control subjects. A VBM study from our centre in drug naïve sample also implicated right ACC as a key region which differentiated OCD patients from controls. Additionally, caudate volume abnormalities were also demonstrated in drug naïve OCD subjects using a region of interest (ROI) paradigm. Need for the study: Deficient response inhibition, a critical neurocognitive deficit in OCD, has been found to have its substrate in pre-supplementary and Supplementary Motor Areas (pre-SMA/SMA). Pre-SMA has a regulatory “brake†effect on the striatal functioning. Lack of pre-SMA inhibition on the striatal function could result in striatal hyperactivity which underlies OCD pathogenesis. In OCD, hypoactive pre-SMA correlated with deficient response inhibition and symptom severity. Given its superficial location, pre-SMA/SMA is an attractive target for therapeutic neuromodulation by non-invasive brain stimulation. Previous transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies of pre-SMA/SMA have shown mixed results in OCD. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is a safe, non-invasive, neuromodulatory technique that applies weak direct current through the scalp. Anodal tDCS of pre-SMA/SMA has been shown to enhance inhibitory control in healthy subjects. Recently, the first demonstration of successful application of add-on tDCS for SSRI-resistant OCD leading to significant clinical improvement has been reported from NIMHANS. In this, 2 patients with treatment refractory OCD were given add-on tDCS with anodal stimulation of pre-SMA/SMA. There was significant improvement in OCD- 40% and 52% reduction in YBOCS rating respectively. The clinical improvement has persisted after tDCS sessions till the latest follow-up (2-months and 1 month) as per the report. Based on this previous report and the literature on the role of preSMA/SMA, this study has been proposed to examine the efficacy of anodal tDCS on preSMA/SMA in participants with OCD. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study is to examine the efficacy of tDCS in OCD patients with persistent symptoms using a double blind randomised sham controlled design. The effect of tDCS on the neurocognitive function- error monitoring/response inhibition would be examined in comparison to healthy volunteer as controls for ascertaining the comparative profile of inhibitory function using stop signal task. HYPOTHESES: OCD patients will demonstrate significantly deficient response inhibition in comparison with matched healthy controls,There will be a significant reduction in severity of obsessive compulsive symptom as well as deficient response inhibition in patients with add on tDCS treatment. Reduction in OC symptom severity will have significant positive correlation with improvement in the response inhibition cognitive function. |