NCT05829681

Individualized Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Predicting rTMS Response in OCD

Individualized Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Predicting Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Response in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 212 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to discover brain-based subtypes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and examine treatment response to two different repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) targets in the brain: the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the right prefrontal cortex (rPFC).

Detailed description

New interventions are urgently needed to treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), as more than 25% of patients show no improvement with the standard of care. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a promising alternative treatment, as it uses focused magnetic field pulses to stimulate specific brain areas. So far, medial and right prefrontal cortex stimulation targets have consistent evidence of efficacy in OCD. Patients often show a strong response to one target but not the other. It is not well understood why some patients respond, while others do not. So far, there are no biomarkers for predicting treatment response, identifying the optimal neuroanatomical target, or choosing between treatments. The goal of this clinical trial is OCD subtype discovery and treatment optimization. Using MRI scans of OCD patients before and after rTMS treatment we aim to: * Define novel network-based subtypes of OCD that can be diagnosed in individual patients and differentiated from healthy controls; * Identify characteristic functional connectivity profiles predictive of response to MPFC-rTMS versus rPFC-rTMS; * Identify characteristic changes in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) associated with symptom improvement for OCD patients undergoing MPFC- and rPFC-rTMS.

Conditions

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation	Participants will receive a 5-day course of 10x daily rTMS, with sessions delivered hourly. Each session will deliver up to 1800 pulses of theta-burst stimulation per target.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-14
• Primary completion: 2027-03-14
• Completion: 2029-03-14
• First posted: 2023-04-26
• Last updated: 2025-12-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study