Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder, Major"

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of CX157 60 mg administered three times a day (180 mg daily dose) as compared to placebo in subjects with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Secondary objectives are to evaluate the safety and tolerability and steady state pharmacokinetic profile of CX157 in these subjects.

The primary purpose of this study is to compare the antidepressant efficacy and safety of two doses of DVS SR (25 and 50 mg/day) in the treatment of adults with Major Depressive Disorder. The study will also assess changes in sexual function and general and functional quality of life outcomes.

FDA has accepted atypical antipsychotics of olanzapine and aripiprazole as the adjuvant medications for refractory major depression. But there is still no trial about atypical antipsychotics combined with antidepressant of SSRI used in fresh major depressive patients. This project aims to compare the efficacy and tolerability of sertraline with or without low-dosed aripiprazole added in fresh major depression.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture treatment on residual insomnia in major depressive patients.

The primary objective of this Phase IIa trial is to determine the effective dose and treatment period for an upcoming RX-10100 Phase IIb trial in subjects with major depression disorder (MDD). The secondary objectives of this trial are to evaluate the safety and quality of life in subjects with MDD receiving RX-10100 treatment.

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a behavioral treatment, contingency management, in reducing stimulant use in persons with serious mental illness.

Depression affects over one million people in Canada, resulting in $14.4 billion per year in costs to Canadian society. In order to prevent this often lifelong disorder, it is critically important to identify risk factors for the recurrence of depression. A crucial force in maintaining depression is the generation of stressful life events. That is, individuals who have a history of depression are likely to generate the very events that precipitate future depressive episodes (e.g., relationship break-up, fired from job, conflicts with the law) due to negative personality characteristics and disrupted social support networks resulting from previous episodes. This project is the first to test a model that examines the role of negative personality, low social support, and childhood abuse and neglect as risk factors for the generation of stressful life events that predict future depression. We will test this model in a group of patients meeting formal criteria for depression who will be treated and then followed up for 12 months or until depression recurrence. With this long-term design we will be in a unique position to understand how depression is maintained over time, thus suggesting important treatment strategies to prevent depression recurrence.

Atypical antipsychotics have been found not only to be beneficial in the treatment of psychotic disorders, but even for depressive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. Remarkably, preliminary data suggest that the atypical antipsychotic quetiapine has antidepressive properties. Until now, there is limited knowledge concerning the efficacy of quetiapine in major depressive illness and especially in psychotic depression. In our own clinical practice, several patients with psychotic depression were successfully treated with quetiapine as add-on therapy or as monotherapy. On the background of that, the convincing effects of quetiapine in bipolar depression, single-case reports and pilot studies concerning its effectiveness in depressive mood states in psychotic disorders as well as our clinical experiences, it is to assume that a treatment with quetiapine over a 6 weeks period show similar effects in major depressive episode with psychotic features, i.e. psychotic depression. In this pilot study we plan to investigate 20 patients with psychotic features of depression under treatment with quetiapine.

Primary objective : To demonstrate the antidepressant efficacy on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale of SR58611A 700mg/day compared with placebo in the treatment of patients with a recurrent major depressive episode. Secondary objectives: To assess the safety profile of SR58611A 700 mg/d in comparison to placebo and to assess plasma concentrations of the active metabolite.

This study will investigate the additional benefits of telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (Tel-CBT) as added treatment to an antidepressant (escitalopram) in working people with major depressive disorder (MDD) versus treatment with escitalopram alone. Outcomes will include depression symptom rating scales and measures of work absence and productivity. The hypothesis is that Tel-CBT and escitalopram will result in better outcomes than escitalopram alone in working patients with MDD.