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Adjunctive Therapy with Istradefylline for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Clinical trial on the efficacy and safety of istradefylline as an adjunctive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
JPRN
Registry ID
JPRN-jRCTs051250026
Enrollment
20
Registered
2025-05-19
Start date
2025-07-24
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-06-29

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Conditions

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Interventions

Patients will receive istradefylline 20 mg once daily for 12 weeks. The dose can be increased to 40 mg at week 6 if clinical response is inadequate.

Sponsors

Murai Toshiya
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) Men and women aged 18 to 75 years at the time of consent. 2) Patients who can provide written consent for voluntary participation in the research. 3) Patients diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Disorders (SCID-5-RV). 4) Patients with a Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) score of 16 or higher at the time of research participation. 5) Patients who have shown insufficient response despite being treated with one or more antidepressant medications at adequate doses for 8 weeks or longer for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1) Patients with severe *liver disorders, kidney disorders, heart disease, lung disease, blood disorders, metabolic diseases, etc. *Refer to Grade 3 of "Standards for Classification of Severity of Adverse Drug Reactions" (Pharmaceutical Safety Notice No. 80, June 29, 1992). 2) Patients who are determined by the clinical research principal (co-) investigator to have complications or a medical history diagnosed with diseases classified as follows in DSM-5: - Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders - Bipolar and related disorders - Substance-related and addictive disorders - Neurocognitive disorders 3) Patients with a history of hypersensitivity to istradefylline 4) Pregnant patients or those who may be pregnant, or breastfeeding female patients 5) Patients with severe liver impairment 6) Patients with ischemic heart disease 7) Patients with QTc (Fridericia correction) exceeding 450 msec 8) Patients with dyskinesia 9) Patients with clinically significant findings in medical examination, clinical tests, and 12-lead electrocardiogram 10) Patients who are otherwise difficult to complete the clinical research, patients who may suffer disadvantages by participating in the clinical research, patients whose safety cannot be ensured during the clinical research period, patients inappropriate for evaluation of efficacy or safety of drugs used in the clinical research, or patients deemed inappropriate for participation in this clinical research by the clinical research principal (co-) investigator

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Efficacy Endpoints: Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S), Clinical Global Impression-Improvement (CGI-I), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D), WHODAS 2.0 (12-items), WHO Quality of Life-26 (WHOQOL-26), Two-Step Sequential Decision-Making Task Safety Endpoints: Vital Signs (body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate), Electrocardiogram (ECG), Clinical Laboratory Tests, Adverse Events Pharmacokinetic Endpoint: Plasma Concentration of Istradefylline

Contacts

Public ContactHirotsugu Kawashima

Kyoto University Hospital

kwsm@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp+81-75-751-3111

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026