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Status unknownNCT05404360Updated Jul 20, 2022

Evaluation of the Long Term Efficacy and Durability of the BrainsWay Deep TMS in OCD Subjects

An interventional study of BrainsWay Deep TMS HAC/H7-Coil and BrainsWay Deep TMS Sham Coil in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, sponsored by Brainsway. Status unknown. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 88 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-07-20.

Sponsored by Brainsway · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2022), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
124
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 88 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

A Prospective Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Long Term Efficacy and Durability of the BrainsWay Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS) in Obsessive-Compulsive Subjects

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The study is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center trial comparing active Deep TMS treatment to sham treatment over the course of the trial. The treatment phase will consist of 44 treatments over thirteen weeks. The acute treatment phase will consist five daily treatments over the course of six weeks, followed by twice weekly continuation treatments for seven weeks. Responders will be eligible to enter the durability phase. For assessment of durability, responders will be assessed quarterly for up to one year from the end of the treatment phase.

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Conditions studied

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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In context

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

635 studies on the registry are indexed under Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; 166 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 124 is above the median of 45 across 520 interventional studies indexed under Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

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Lead sponsor

Brainsway is the lead sponsor of 21 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 88 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Outpatients
  • Males and females, 18-88 years of age
  • Diagnosed as suffering from OCD according to the .
  • Subjects with a YBOCS score of >20.
  • If on SRI, patient must be maintained on current dosages (with or without additional antidepressant or psychotropic augmentation for treatment of OCD), at a stable therapeutic dosage for at least 2 months prior to study entry and for the duration of the trial.
  • If in CBT, must be in the maintenance stage (i.e., not receiving active training in exposure and response prevention, which is the core component of this treatment). CBT can be with teletherapy but must be for a minimum of ten sessions with a symptom checklist, hierarchy, with exposure and response prevention therapy.
  • Have negative or justified responses by the investigator to all questions listed on the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Safety Screening questionnaire (TASS).
  • According to the treating physician the subject is compliant with taking medication, if applicable.
  • Subject is capable and willing to provide and assent.
  • Willing and able to adhere to the treatment schedule.
  • Must own a smartphone.
  • All comorbid diagnoses have been stable for 3 months and anticipated to be stable for the 3 months treatment duration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects diagnosed as suffering from any other Axis I diagnosis as the primary diagnosis.
  • Comorbid, secondary psychiatric diagnoses are unstable and are likely to require changes in therapeutic regimens even if OCD improves.
  • Present suicidal risk as assessed by the investigator using the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, brief mental status exam and psychiatric interview or a history of attempted suicide in the past year.
  • History of epilepsy or seizure (EXCEPT those therapeutically induced by ECT and febrile seizures in infancy).
  • Increased risk of seizure for any reason, including prior diagnosis of increased intracranial pressure, or history of significant head trauma with loss of consciousness for greater than or equal to 5 minutes.
  • History of head injury necessitating cranial surgery or prolonged coma.
  • History of any ferromagnetic of conductive material in the head including the eyes and ears (outside the mouth).
  • Known history of any metallic particles in the eye, implanted neurostimulators, intracranial implant (e.g., aneurysm clips, shunts, stimulators, cochlear implants, or electrodes).
  • History of significant hearing loss.
  • Subjects with significant neurological disorder or insult including, but not limited to
  • Any condition likely to be associated with increased intracranial pressure
  • Space occupying brain lesion
  • History of cerebrovascular accident
  • within two years
  • Cerebral aneurysm
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Substance use disorder within the past 6 months (except nicotine and caffeine).
  • Currently participating in another therapeutic clinical study.
  • Suffer from an unstable physical, systemic and metabolic disorder such as unstable blood pressure, unstable blood sugar, or acute, unstable cardiac disease.
  • Subject on high doses of antidepressant or psychotropic medications, which are known to lower the seizure threshold. Subject is currently on Clomipramine.
  • Significant possibility of death within eighteen months of baseline.
  • Planned surgeries that will interrupt the study schedule within eighteen months of baseline
  • Treatment with any TMS in the past year.
  • Women who are breast-feeding.
  • Women who are pregnant or with suspected pregnancy.
  • Women of and not using a medically accepted form of when engaging in sexual intercourse.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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DSM diagnostic criteria

The American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental health diagnoses. DSM-5 (2013, revised as DSM-5-TR in 2022) replaced DSM-IV, and some studies still name the older edition. “Meets DSM criteria for …” means diagnosed by that edition’s diagnostic criteria, usually by a clinician in an interview.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator)
Enrollment
124 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment Group

    During the acute treatment phase, subjects will receive daily prefrontal Deep TMS treatment, 5 days a week for 6 consecutive weeks. Following the acute phase, patients will receive semi-weekly Deep TMS stimulation for an additional seven weeks. Treatment will include a total of 44 treatments over 13 weeks.

    Device: BrainsWay Deep TMS HAC/H7-Coil

  • Sham comparator
    Sham Control Group

    During the acute treatment phase, subjects will receive daily prefrontal sham treatment, 5 days a week for 6 consecutive weeks. Following the acute phase, patients will receive semi-weekly sham stimulation for an additional seven weeks. Treatment will include a total of 44 treatments over 13 weeks.

    Device: BrainsWay Deep TMS Sham Coil

Interventions

  • DeviceBrainsWay Deep TMS HAC/H7-Coil

    The BrainsWay HAC/H7-Coil Deep TMS System is composed of four main components: an electromagnetic H7/HAC-Coil, TMS stimulator, cooling system and positioning arm.

    Also known as: Active Treatment

  • DeviceBrainsWay Deep TMS Sham Coil

    The experimental system has two coils in the same helmet, a sham and active coil. The sham coil has a similar acoustic artifact as the active coil and it administers a superficial stimulation to maintain blinding. The system assigns the active or sham coil based on the patient ID during the high frequency treatment.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS)

    Change in YBOCS scores from baseline to the end of six weeks between the active Deep TMS and Sham treatment groups. Scores on the YBOCS range from 0 (no Symptoms) to 40 (Extreme Symptoms).

    Time frame: 6 weeks

  2. Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS)

    Change in YBOCS scores from baseline to the end of thirteen weeks between the active Deep TMS and Sham treatment groups. Scores on the YBOCS range from 0 (no Symptoms) to 40 (Extreme Symptoms).

    Time frame: 13 weeks

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Aug 2022; primary completion for Jun 2024, 22 months later.

Of 237 interventional studies with no phase under Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, half reached primary completion within 43 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 65. This study's planned 22 months is below that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
May 31, 2022
First posted
Jun 3, 2022
StartEst.
Aug 2022
Primary completionEst.
Jun 2024
CompletionEst.
Jun 2024
Last update
Jul 20, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 20, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05404360
Lead sponsor
Brainsway
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 3, 2022
Start date
Aug 2022 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 20, 2022

Study contacts

Ahava Stein
Contact
ahava@asteinrac.com
97297670002
Lisa Bokobza
Contact
lisa@asteinrac.com
97297670002

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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