The Effects of taVNS on Motivation in MDD With Anhedonia

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Study of non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) intervention to improve the reward motivation and response inhibition of major depression disorder and its brain network mechanism.

Clinical Trial Description

Anhedonia is the core symptom of MDD, which means they have deficits in processing rewards.MDD get lesser positive feelings than healthy controls from rewards as they could not use the reward outcome to update the value of a stimulus, which in consequence impedes their reward motivation or response inhibition and worsen their symptom. We are dedicated to revealing how reward motivation or response inhibition ability could be intervened by taVNS intervention, which has been proven is highly relevant to reward motivation and response inhibition ability. Implementing a safer intervention of taVNS stimulation might help us to prove a better treatment for patients. All patients underwent a medical evaluation that included physical examination and routine laboratory studies before and after taVNS stimulation treatment. Before and after the taVNS treatment, depression symptom of each participant was assessed by the Hamilton Depression Scale and the Beck Depression Self-Rating Scale. The anhedonia severity was evaluated by The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale, the Self-Report Apathy Evaluation Scale, the Positive Valence system scale and the Motivation and Pleasure Scale. The neuroimaging data are collected using event-related potentials during the effort reward task and stop signal task before and after the intervention. Patients were randomly allocated into an active group and a sham group. We plan to enroll a minimum total sample size of 30 participants in active and sham group respectively according to the Power and Sample Size program. The decision to enroll a patient was always made prior to randomization. Each patient will be treated for 4 weeks with 25Hz taVNS. Each participant was interviewed in detail about the adverse event of the taVNS intervention during the past 4 weeks . Every participant should take part in the study voluntarily and sign an informed consent form before the study. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT06026904
Study type	Interventional
Source	Anhui Medical University
Contact	Fengqiong Yu, MD
Phone	0551-65167281
Email	yufengqiong@ahmu.edu.cn
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	March 30, 2023
Completion date	September 30, 2024

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