Effectiveness of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients

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• Conditions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.; These may take the form of ideas, mental images, or impulses to act, which are nearly always distressing to the subject. Sometimes the ideas are an indecisive, endless consideration of alternatives, associated with an inability to make trivial but necessa; F 42.0

• Registration Number: IRCT201701095138N3
• Lead Sponsor: Vice Chancellor for Research of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Last Update Posted: 22 February 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

Diagnosis of OCD according to DSMV ; Lack of response to treatment with 2 drugs with sufficient dose and time (equal 80 mg Fluoxetine) ; Only this diagnosis in axis I and not have diagnosis in axis II ; Lack of drug dependence and lack of major neurological complications in terms of history; Written consent to participate in the study ; Right-handed ; Unchanged drug in the last month and the lack of psychotherapy in 8 weeks
Exclusion criteria:Other disorders in axis I and II ; Having implant or prosthesis or metal in skull ; Patient satisfaction or waiver of him; Pregnancy

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intensity of Obsession Compulsion Symptoms. Timepoint: Before intervention- after last intervention and 1 month after last intervention. Method of measurement: YALE-BROWN (Y-BOCS) Test.