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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   Medical Device 
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group, Placebo Controlled Trial 
Public Title of Study   Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) treatment in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  
Scientific Title of Study   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   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
Not Applicable  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
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    
Email  rushtoshayanth@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
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    
Email  ycjreddy@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
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    
Email  jairamnimhans@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
MD Thesis Research  
 
Primary Sponsor  
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 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
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 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
NIMHANS Institute Ethics Committee  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder(OCD),  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
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. 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
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. 
 
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. 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Computer generated randomization 
Method of Concealment   Other 
Blinding/Masking   Participant, Investigator, Outcome Assessor and Date-entry Operator Blinded 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Degree(Severity) of Obsessive and compulsive symptoms
 
Daily before next tDCS sessions
 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Cognition   Twice. Before intervention and after intervention  
 
Target Sample Size   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   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   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   Years="1"
Months="0"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)   Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Open to Recruitment 
Publication Details   No publications yet  
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Brief Summary  

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 â€œbrake” 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. 

 
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