NMDA Receptor Antagonist Nitrous Oxide Targets Affective Brain Circuits

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

Most clinical major depression responds to standard treatments (medication and psychotherapy); however, a significant subset of depressed patients (15-20%) do not respond to these treatments and are referred to as treatment-resistant major depression (TRMD). New treatments for TRMD are needed, and one promising line of research are drugs known as N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonists. In a recent pilot study, our group demonstrated that the NMDA antagonist nitrous oxide is effective in TRMD. This application proposes to take the next important step in understanding how nitrous oxide exerts its effects in the human brain by using state-of-the-art brain neuroimaging (functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging) in a group of non-depressed, healthy volunteers and comparing the results to a group of TRMD patients. This study involves exposing 20 non-depressed healthy participants and 20 TRMD participants to nitrous oxide and a placebo gas, to compare their brain images before and after each of the inhalation sessions. Sessions will be separated by at least one month to prevent treatment effects from carrying over into the following session. All willing and eligible subjects will undergo up to six functional connectivity MRI scans, and two inhalation sessions. Functional imaging in the brain will allow us to trace the interconnections between various parts of the brain, including those involved with emotion and depression. Other procedures will involve screening materials to ensure safety of the participants before beginning the study (i.e. no MRI scan contraindications) and that subjects meet eligibility criteria to being in the targeted age range, depression/non-depressed state, neurological disorder history, and no medication exclusions.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Depression
Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder, Major
Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant
Disease

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT02994433
Study type	Interventional
Source	Washington University School of Medicine
Contact
Status	Terminated
Phase	Phase 1
Start date	January 27, 2017
Completion date	February 28, 2020

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