Predicting Medication Response in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Conditions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Interventions
- Registration Number
- NCT01404871
- Lead Sponsor
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Brief Summary
In this study, the investigators hope to study a number of variables the investigators believe may help us predict why some people respond better to some medications than others. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive one of two typical medications for OCD, clomipramine or escitalopram. Individuals who would like to participate but who have previously tried one or both of these medications may instead take a newer drug, duloxetine, and undergo the identical procedures. The factors the investigators will be studying include demographics (i.e. age, gender, age of onset of OCD), genetic markers (such as variants in genes involved in breaking down drugs in the liver (cytochrome P450 system), and genes involved in several brain chemical systems, such as serotonin), the dimensions of OCD symptoms (i.e. checking, washing, and hoarding) and cortical inhibition. Cortical inhibition will be measured transcranial magnetic stimulation and is being studied because deficits in this process may be important in the development of OCD. The investigators hypothesize that certain pretreatment clinical characteristics will correlate with poor treatment response including earlier age of onset, longer duration of illness, increased YBOCS severity and presence of significant hoarding symptoms. The investigators expect that increasing degree of deficit in CI pre-treatment will predict poor treatment response, but that increase in CI from pre- to post-treatment will correlate with a positive treatment response. Differences in genetic marker status for cytochrome P450 genes will correlate with tolerability and/or response, as well as differences in genetic marker status in SLC1A1, GRIN2B, 5HT1B and 5HT2A will correlate with response.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 26
- Clinical diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Must be able to swallow tablets
- History of stroke
- History of Parkinson's disease
- History of Epilepsy
- Clinical diagnosis of Schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
- Clinical diagnosis of Bipolar Affective disorder
- Active suicidality
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- CROSSOVER
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Randomization to ECIT or CMI clomipramine Randomized trial of clomipramine or escitalopram Randomization to ECIT or CMI escitalopram Randomized trial of clomipramine or escitalopram Open label Duloxetine duloxetine Open label trial of duloxetine
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method YBOCS Obsessive-Compulsive Severity Score Bi-monthly (every 2 weeks for duration of trial. Approx. 12 weeks) The YBOCS yields an OCD severity score by scoring participants on time, interference, distress, resistance and control of their obsessive and compulsive symptoms on a scale of 0-4. When these scores are summed, they give a total severity score from 0-40. The primary outcome will measure the degree of change in this measurement from pre- to post-treatment.
Clinical Global Improvement - Improvement Scale Bi-monthly (every 2 weeks for duration of trial. Approx. 12 weeks) This is a clinician/Research assistant rated score of clinical improvement. Both treating physician and research assistant (who interviews the participant every two weeks) will independently provide ratings from 1-7, 1 being very much improved and 7 being very much worse.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in cortical Inhibition (CI) as measured with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Pre- and post-treatment (typically, 0 weeks and 12 weeks) Genotype marker data for SLC1A1, GRIN2B, 5HT1B, 5HT2A and P450 enzymes CYP2D6 and CYP2C19. Collected at week 0, analyzed periodically (approx. 1x/year) We will initially focus on GLU and GABA gene candidates for which there is good evidence of involvement in cortical inhibition. We will also prioritize other markers previously implicated in response and/or etiology of the illness including 5HT1B, 5HT2A, 5HTT, DRD3, DRD4, MOG, BDNF, MAOA, COMT. We will test 200 SNPs across these 12 genes, and also explore any highly promising genes emerging from the literature as time and resources permit. We will test both single markers and haplotypes. Genotyping of CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 will be typed by the Roche Diagnostics Amplichip (www.amplichip.us).
Tolerability/side effects measure with Udvalg for Liniske Undersogelser Side Effect Rating Scale (UKU). Bi-monthly (every 2 weeks for duration of trial. Approx. 12 weeks) Clinical Global Impression - Severity Scale. Bi-monthly (every 2 weeks for duration of trial. Approx. 12 weeks) Depression symptoms will be rated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Bi-monthly (every 2 weeks for duration of trial. Approx. 12 weeks) DYBOCS (Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale) start, middle and end of trial (typically, 0, 6 and 12 weeks)
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
🇨🇦Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
🇨🇦Toronto, Ontario, Canada