View clinical trials related to Depressive Disorder.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to see if creatine, which is a naturally occurring chemical in the body, is effective for treating Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in female teenagers. The primary hypothesis is that compared to placebo, 2g, 4g, and 10g of creatine monohydrate for eight weeks will be associated with a significant increase in brain phosphocreatine (PCr) concentrations.
Patients with an episode of depression in late life prescribed mirtazapine recruited from a clinical sample will be monitored for weight and receive a blood test during their usual course of treatment to determine polymorphisms in a specific gene (LEPR) thought to affect weight gain.
The aim of the investigation is to evaluate the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of a model of supported employment (the Individual Career Management (ICM) model) designed to help people with common mental illness return to work.
The purpose of this study is to understand the effectiveness of a ten-week internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT) treatment on improving depressive symptoms, coping and resilience skills, and cognitive processing.
Bupropion is a unique drug that is used both to treat depression and as an aid in smoking cessation. In 2008, the final report from the Bupropion pregnancy registry described 24 congenital malformations among the 675 women exposed to bupropion in the first trimester of pregnancy. Of these, 9 had congenital heart disease of varying severity, including a number of infants with ventricular septal defects (VSDs); of note, 2 of these 9 had coarctation of the aorta. More recently, Alwan et al, in an analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's case-control National Birth Defects Prevention Study, reported an increased risk of left outflow tract heart defects, a subgroup of cardiac malformations that includes coarctation of the aorta and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Data from the Slone Epidemiology Center Birth Defects Study will be used to test these observations. The outcomes of primary interest will include those hypothesized to be associated with bupropion in recent studies: left outflow tract defects considered as a group. Coarctation of the aorta and hypoplastic left heart syndrome will also be examined separately. All infants with congenital heart defects are further classified into subgroups that are embryologically meaningful, including left outflow tract defects. In secondary analyses, other heart defect classes for which there are adequate numbers of cases will be evaluated.
The proposed study is a 1-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, trial to evaluate the efficacy of an IV infusion of magnesium sulfate on symptoms of treatment resistant mild and moderate depression in 20 males and females (21-70 years of age). Participants will be assessed at screening/baseline, day 1, day 2, day 7, and day 8. Each subject will be randomized in a double-blind fashion to receive either IV infusion of magnesium sulfate or 5% dextrose followed by a washout period of 5 days then crossover to receive either IV infusion of 5% dextrose or magnesium sulfate.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has unparalleled efficacy in treating severe depression, and is also useful in treatment-refractory cases of schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). However, its use is limited by significant adverse effects on memory and cognition. In addition, ECT cannot be precisely targeted, since it relies on unpredictable pathways of electrical conduction through the brain. Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is currently under investigation as a targetable, cognition-sparing alternative to ECT. MST uses magnetic fields rather than electrical stimuli for seizure induction, dramatically reducing the passage of induced current through undesired brain regions. 10 years of experimental studies have established the safety of MST in animal and human subjects. This pilot study will investigate whether MST has similar efficacy to ECT, with fewer cognitive side effects, in patients with severe depression, schizophrenia, and OCD.
The purpose of this retrospective observational study is to evaluate the characteristics of patients receiving Seroquel XR as treatment for their Major Depressive Disorder. The study will also investigate how the medication is used for these patients and if there are any differences in drug utilisation between the included countries. The study is observing patients initiating Seroquel XR during a 9 month period corresponding to 3 to 12 months following the launch of the product in each country for the MDD indication. A drug utilisation questionnaire will be used to collect study data from patients' medical records.
The purpose of this study is the evaluation of remission rate between escitalopram 20 mg and 30 mg in patients with major depressive disorder.
Depression in patients with schizophrenia is common. Several factors was found to be associated with depression including medical illness, quality of life, positive symptoms, and typical antipsychotics. The Calgary depression scale of schizophrenia (CDSS) is commonly used for screening depression in schizophrenia,however; the Thai version of CDSS has not been validated. This study aims to a.) test the reliability and validity of the Thai version of Calgary depression scale of schizophrenia (CDSS) and b.) identify the prevalence and factors associated with depression in patients with schizophrenia including quality of life, type of antipsychotic drugs, and severity of schizophrenia in 60 patients with schizophrenia at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.