Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder, Major"

In the future, we plan to conduct an 8-week diet intervention to investigate whether a healthy Nordic diet improves depression symptoms. The present pilot study tested whether the planned meals and diets were well-liked and accepted by participants (both depressed and non-depressed) in order to ensure that the future diet intervention will be feasible and successful. We also investigated whether any changes in health occurred after 8 days of this diet intervention.

TRAIT-RS is an observational study to evaluate ongoing treatment response stability to standard of care antidepressant treatments (ADTs) among individuals who met criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and completed the Tracking Response to Antidepressants in Advance of Investigational Trials (TRAIT) study (NCT04748276).

Predicting the prognosis and treatment responses in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) is currently based on trial and error, because some treatments work for some individuals, but not others. Novel predictors of prognosis and treatment response in MDD can add value to the development of targeted treatments and the stratified approaches to improve long-term outcomes of individuals with MDD. This study uses a novel virtual-reality-based measure of blame-related action tendencies and combines this with established predictors of treatment response and prognosis in individuals with MDD.

Approximately 20 sites in Korea including the Catholic University of Korea, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital. Patients with Depressive disorders taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant or Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), who additionally administered Buspar® Tab (Buspirone) to control symptom of anxiety. Primary objective: To evaluate the efficacy of treating the symptoms of anxiety at 12 weeks from the baseline after the administration of Buspar® Tab (Buspirone) to patients with depression by using the Hamilton Anxiety (HAM-A). Approximately 400 participants (including 10% dropouts) Rating Scale

The purpose of this research is to explore objective biomarkers in voice, physiological, motor, and brain imaging signals that may one day be used to complement clinical evaluation and treatment of depression.

The aim of this study is to determine whether blood levels of lithium or sertraline are affected by different phases of the menstrual cycle and whether there is an effect on psychiatric symptoms. Subjects are seen for two visits: one visit during the luteal phase and one visit during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. On each visit, they will fill out a depression, anxiety and mania rating scale. Also at each visit a 20mL blood sample will be drawn to measure progesterone level and either a lithium or sertraline level, depending on which medication the patient takes. The primary hypothesis in this study is that blood levels of lithium and sertraline will be significantly lower in women during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle than during the follicular phase. Examination will also be made of whether symptoms will increase in severity during the luteal phase as compared to the follicular phase. The investigators expect a negative linear association between symptom severity and blood level, i.e. expect symptom severity to worsen as blood levels of lithium or sertraline decrease.

The study is designed to answer the following research questions: Evaluate the acceptability of mental health screening and of the instruments used in a sample of community living Chinese seniors; Determine rates of mental health service utilization in individuals identified at screening as having psychological disturbance; Determine if identifying mental illness and informing participants of screening results and with treatment alternatives alters help-seeking pathways. The study hypotheses are: This community sample of Chinese seniors will show a higher prevalence of psychological disturbance than their counterparts in the general population; Emotional well-being will be positively correlated with individuals' physical health and social support network.

The purpose of this study is to develop a blood test for major depression and measure the effects of ziprasidone monotherapy on these markers. Specific Aim: Using a multiplex biomarker assay we will measure levels of 16 biomarkers in patients with MDD enrolled in this ancillary study (adjunct to study NCT00555997) and compare these results to those of healthy controls" (defined as research subjects who have not met criteria for any lifetime Axis-I disorder (DSM-IV)) from an existing dataset at PHB.

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the relationships among findings in structural and functional neuroimaging, cognitive testing and HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis dysregulation in psychotic depression.

The goal of the proposed research is to examine the neural correlates of depressive symptom reduction in individuals with major depressive disorder using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and to compare results to those obtained from a nondepressed control group.