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Rohit Verma1, Nand Kumar1, Ananya Mahapatra2
1Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Management of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) remains a challenge, particularly in individuals having co-existing psychotic symptoms. Even in patients with schizophrenia having a fair to good response in psychotic symptoms, these obsessive-compulsive symptoms defy response to antipsychotic and anti-obsessive pharmaco-therapeutic approach to a great extent. Recently developed neuromodulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can serve a viable and effective approach to manage such cases. The present paper documents the first utilization of tDCS (cathode: supplementary motor area; anode: right occipital cortex) as an add-on approach to pharmacotherapy to manage co-morbid OCD in a case of chronic schizophrenia.
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