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This treatment study of esomeprazole in ASD will be the first study in the world with significant originality and innovation. The investigators anticipate seeing the effect of esomeprazole on improving the core symptoms of ASD, particularly within the social communication and cognition domains.


Clinical Trial Description

Due to lifelong impairment and no effective treatment, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been prioritized for molecular genetics and brain research to understand the pathogenesis mechanism of ASD to develop effective early detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment for ASD. Some pilot reports suggested that D-amino acid oxidase inhibitor (DAOI) is effective in treating autism. Previous research of investigators has discovered esomeprazole would be a good inhibitor of DAOI. This project will be the first clinical trial in the world to examine the effect of esomeprazole in children with ASD.

Specific Aims:

1. To investigate the improvement of specific ASD core symptoms of social communication and interactions as well as stereotyped behaviors and investigator's impression of clinical symptoms severity and improvement.

2. To investigate the changes of several aspects of autistic, ADHD and oppositional/impulsive traits, a wide range of social functions and neurocognitive functions.

3. To examine the pharmacodynamics of esomeprazole and its parent drug. ;


Study Design


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NCT number NCT03669159
Study type Interventional
Source National Taiwan University Hospital
Contact Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Phone 02-23123456
Email gaushufe@ntu.edu.tw
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date January 1, 2018
Completion date December 2018

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