Found 1,255 clinical trials
Study of Sleep Inertia in Major Depressive Disorder by the Psychomotor Vigilance Task
The study population comprises three groups of 30 analyzable participants: Patients with sleep inertia and Major Depressive Disorder, patients with Major Depressive Disorder but without sleep inertia, and controls without mood disorders or sleep inertia. Controls will be patients referred to the Sleep Disorders and Acupuncture Unit for polysomnography as …
Positioning of Esketamine Treatment in the Real-world Management of Depression
The goal of this naturalistic, open label, single arm intervention study is to investigate the effects of Esketamine in treating depression.The main aims to answer are: to investigate whether Esketamine is effective when added to ongoing antidepressant treatment to identify patient characteristics that will determine a therapeutic response to Esketamine …
Prediction of ECT Treatment Response and Reduction of Cognitive Side-effects Using EEG and Rivastigmine
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the beneficial effects of rivastigmine administration, and predict the treatment outcome with electroencephalography (EEG), in patients with severe depression treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The study has two main objectives: to study whether rivastigmine would ameliorate the side-effect profile of ECT …
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Depression
Several studies have shown that tDCS is valuable and safe options to improve depressive symptoms in adult patients . However, regarding the tDCS to treat depression in elderly population, only few studies have been reported, and there is no consensus among them. To our knowledge, prefrontal cortex tDCS could be …
Depressed Mood Improvement Through Nicotine Dosing 3
Deficits in cognitive control are core features of late-life depression (LLD), contributing both to emotion dysregulation and problems with inhibiting irrelevant information, conflict detection, and working memory. Clinically characterized as executive dysfunction, these deficits are associated with poor response to antidepressants and higher levels of disability. Improvement of cognitive control …
Combining Antidepressants and Attention Bias Modification in Depression
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent psychiatric condition associated with significant disability, mortality and economic burden. A large proportion of MDD patients are treated in primary health care (PHC) in the municipalities and represent a challenging group. Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) training in combination with antidepressants (SSRIs) …
Study of the Neural Circuits Underlying the Negative Emotional Bias of Depressive Disorders and Their Response to Ketamine
Major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting up to 300 million people each year, and one in five people will experience depression at least once in their lives. Emotional bias is an essential component of characterized depressive episodes, leading depressed patients to attribute a more negative …
IMPACT-D+: Immune-Modulating and Psychometric Effects of Accelerated TMS in Depression Plus Comorbid Post-COVID-19 Condition
This is a monocentric, randomized pilot study conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich. The study investigates the effects of two different intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) schedules on biological and clinical outcomes in patients with depression and comorbid Post-COVID-19 condition (PCC). Participants will be randomized into two arms, …
Intervention Effect of Temporal Interference Stimulation (TIS) on Depressive Disorder
To investigate the effect of Temporal Interference Stimulation (TIS) on associative memory (AM) in patients with depressive disorder
Music Therapy for Adolescents with Emotional Difficulties
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effects of a music therapy program in adolescents aged 13-18 years old with emotional difficulties, primarily depression and possibly concurrent diagnoses of anxiety. The main questions are: What recruitment methods, barriers, and facilitators influence study participation among adolescents with emotional …
