Safety and Effectiveness of NeuroStar® Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Therapy in Depressed Adolescents
Major Depressive Disorder
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Major Depressive Disorder focused on measuring child depression, depression, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder, TMS, adolescent depression
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Primary diagnosis of unipolar major depressive disorder, in a current major depressive episode, without psychotic features
- Duration of current episode of depression ≥4 weeks and ≤3 years
- Clinical Global Impression - Severity of Illness ≥ 4
- Resistance to antidepressant treatment in a discrete illness episode
- HAMD24 Item 1 ≥ 2 and total score ≥ 20
- Subjects able to commit to protocol visit schedule
- At the end of the baseline visit, subject must have a HAMD24 score of ≥ 18 and change in score may not be ≥ 25% decrease from that seen at the screening visit
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior TMS, vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Contraindication to TMS
- Cardiac pacemakers, implanted medication pumps, intracardiac lines
- History of neurological disorder
- Unstable medical conditions
- Any psychiatric disorder, which in the judgement of the Investigator may hinder the subject in completing the procedures required by the study protocol.
- Significant acute suicide risk
- Inability to locate and quantify a motor threshold
- If sexually active female, not on an accepted method of birth control.
Diagnoses of the following conditions (current unless otherwise stated):
- Depression secondary to a general medical condition, or substance induced:
- Seasonal pattern of depression as defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
- Any psychotic disorder (lifetime), including history of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, other psychosis, psychotic features in this or previous episodes, amnestic disorder,
- Intellectually disabled,
- Substance dependence or abuse within the past year (except nicotine or caffeine),
- Bipolar disorder,
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (lifetime),
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (lifetime),
- Eating disorder (lifetime).
Sites / Locations
- Dothan Behavioral Medicine
- UCLA
- Stanford University
- Rocky Mountain TMS
- Florida Clinical Practice Association, Inc.
- Anchor Neuroscience
- Beacon Medical Group
- Integrative Psychiatry
- Sheppard Pratt Health System
- Mayo Clinic
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- The Ohio State University
- Medical University of South Carolina
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Active Comparator
Sham Comparator
Other
Other
Phase I TMS Active
Phase I TMS Sham
Phase II Open Label Active TMS
Phase III Long-Term Follow up TMS Active
Blinded Active TMS coil (Phase I). Active NeuroStar® Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Blinded Sham TMS coil (Phase I) Sham NeuroStar® Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Open label active TMS coil. Open label active NeuroStar® TMS.
Long term follow up with open label active TMS for retreatment as needed. Open label active NeuroStar® TMS.