Each month, Margitta Seeck, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, selects an Editor's Choice article highlighting noteworthy research recently published in the journal.
Rut Zaks-Ohayon, Talia Beit-On Hakmon, Hagit Cohen, Itay Besser, Zippi Frenkel, Jonathan Guez, and Doron Todder
Clin Neurophysiol Pract. 2026 Sep 2;11:774-781. doi: 10.1016/j.cnp.2026.08.009.
In this double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial of 15 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a significant decrease in symptom severity was noted following treatment with cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), compared with sham. The study demonstrates once again that neurophysiological procedures available to every neurophysiologist offer the potential for effective treatment, in this case for a very serious neuropsychiatric disorder: OCD.