Intractable obsessive-compulsive disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 20 to 70 year-old OCD patients diagnosed by DSM-5 with the informed consent. Y-BOCS score of 30/40 or more and Global Assessment of Functioning scores of 45 or less. Refractory against medication and cognitive behavioral therapy for more than 5 years.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Other psychiatric illness (autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, depression, drug addiction), and brain disease (epilepsy, trauma, cerebro-vascular disease, neuro-degenerative disease) except tic and Tourette syndrome. Severe cardiac diseases, pulmonary diseases blood diseases Pregnant or during breast-feeding. Whom researchers judged as inappropriate
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| more than 35% improvement of Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) at 12 months after the initiation of AIC/VS-DBS. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery