Brain scans could predict who will resist OCD treatment
NCT ID NCT05843604
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aims to find brain activity patterns and thinking skills that can predict which people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) will not respond well to standard treatments. Researchers will use brain scans and cognitive tests in 100 participants with OCD and compare them to healthy controls. The goal is to personalize care by identifying treatment-resistant profiles early.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2023
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
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Who is studied
Patients will be recruited from the Clinical Research Unit of Poitiers. All volunteer patients included in this study will be included regardless of the degree of resistance to treatment or the severity of their disease. Patients will not be hospitalized for the duration of the study unless their condition requires it. Healthy volunteers will be recruited locally by advertisement or through acquaintances, and will be matched to each patient based on age, gender, laterality, and education level. They must not have an acute pathology being treated, nor take psychotropic drugs, nor be followed in psychotherapy. In their history, we must not find hospitalization in a psychiatric environment or a psychiatric illness according to the M.I.N.I. version 5.0.0.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosed according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 criteria (patients will be included regardless of the severity and resistance of their pathology and their levels of executive functions) * Understand and accept the constraints of the study * Be a beneficiary or affiliated to a Health Insurance scheme Exclusion Criteria: * Present one of the diagnoses according to the criteria of the DSM 5: schizophrenic disorders, substance abuse or dependence to a substance according to the criteria of the M.I.N.I. version 5.0 (Sheehan et al., 1998) * Generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, nicotine dependence and history of a major depressive episode are not exclusion criteria according to the M.I.N.I. version 5.0 (Sheehan et al., 1998) * Have a serious intercurrent pathology * Being a pregnant woman * Being a woman of childbearing age without effective contraception. * Being hospitalized under duress or on an outpatient basis in a care program * Being under judicial protection (reinforced curatorship, guardianship)
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Hospitalier Henri Laborit
RECRUITINGPoitiers, France
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