Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder"

This study is a multicenter clinical research and focuses on the exploring of optimal diagnosis and treatment strategies of MDD based on anhedonia.

The present research project aims to compare the efficacy and safety of an intervention based on a smartphone application, which uses CBT techniques, to online group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBCT), in improving depressive symptoms. The project also has supplemental analysis to predict who will respond to the CBT intervention using the application. For this analysis, machine learning algorithms, a set of techniques from the field of artificial intelligence, will be used to create a predictive calculator for response to interventions. The analysis protocol used for this analysis will be in accordance with that proposed in task Force of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders.

The investigators are testing the efficacy of Smartphone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). The investigators hypothesize that participants receiving app-CBT will have greater improvement in SIGH-D scores than those in the waitlist condition at treatment endpoint (week 8).

An open label trial to assess the safety and efficacy of transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) in improving symptoms of depression in youth.

Introduction: Today it is necessary to emphasize that coronary heart disease is often associated with anxiety disorders. Research over the years has shown several and sometimes surprising links between coronary heart disease and mental illness, and has even suggested that both of these phenomena may actually cause each other. However, the exact nature of these links has not yet been clearly established. Methods: The study included 202 patients with coronary artery disease, of whom 42 patients were with stable angina pectoris, they participated as a control group, and 160 patients with unstable angina pectoris, who made up the main group. Among them there are 102 women and 100 men between the ages of 30 and 88. The average age was 63.75 ± 11.37 years. All study participants had blood in the morning on fasting after 8-12 hours of fasting from the cubital vein. Determination of the level of cytokines TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-4 and IL-10 in blood serum by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). All participants in the study had blood drawn in the morning on fasting after 8-12 hours of fasting from the cubital vein. The level of uric acid was determined on the CYAN Start apparatus using a unified method. When examining patients with unstable angina pectoris were used: hospital anxiety and depression scale [Kozlova S.N. 2013]. And also the Spielberger-Khanin scale [Psychiatry - Hoffman A.G. 2010], developed by Spielberger Ch.D. and adapted by Yu.L. Khanin. to assess cognitive functions [Psychiatry - Gofman A.G. 2010].

A novel web-based module (Teen Depression Module or TDM)has been created for assisting primary care providers (PCPs) in screening for and addressing and referring teens with depression. This is a cluster randomized Quality Improvement study to determine if use of the TDM that includes collecting information on strengths and goals as part of well child care will improve detection of depression, referral success, and teen's use of alternative helping strategies with resulting improvement in depression symptoms.

This study aims to compare self-help lifestyle medicine (LM) delivered by a smartphone app and booklets in managing depressive symptoms in a Chinese population. This study is a randomised controlled trial. First, informed consent will be obtained from potential participants. Around 90 eligible participants will be randomly assigned to either the LM app group, the LM booklet group, and the waitlist control group, in a ratio of 1:1:1. The app group will receive an app to facilitate lifestyle modification such as video demonstrations of physical activity, diet recommendations, stress and sleep management. The booklet group will receive 8 LM booklets with identical content with the LM app. The waitlist control group will receive access to the app and booklets at the end of the study. The whole intervention lasts 8 weeks. Participants will also receive 2 messages per week from the researcher to check and prompt motivation and adherence. Participants will complete assessment before, immediately after intervention, at one month and 12-week follow up.

Depression is a disabling condition in terms of psychosocial alteration and also in terms of physical comorbidities. Depression doubles the risk of myocardial infarction compared with the general population, and this cardiovascular comorbidity leads to an increase in mortality in patients suffering from depression, even exceeding suicide-related mortality. It is therefore important to better understand the mechanisms linking depression and cardiovascular disease. Among the hypotheses that may account for the increased cardiovascular risk in patients with depression, lipid abnormalities are likely to play a crucial role. Thus, qualitative and functional abnormalities in HDL lipoproteins are an important line of research, insofar as these lipid abnormalities have been recognized as important atherogenic abnormalities in populations at high cardiovascular risk, which is the case of patients with depression. In this clinical, epidemiological and scientific context, a collaborative study undertaken by both the Department of Psychiatry of the Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital of and the INSERM LNC-UMR 1231 (PADYS) Laboratory of the UNIVERSITY OF BOURGOGNE FRANCHE-COMTE is an original translational research project, and the first study to perform a lipidomic analysis of HDL, coupled with a functional analysis of these lipoproteins in depression.

This is a phase 2 and 3 adaptive design study for Mitizodone Phosphate,to find out an optimal dose in phase 2 period and confirm the result an efficacy and safety in phase 3 period.Dose-finding will be done after 8 weeks of double-blinded treatment in phase 2 period and will be assessed by both efficacy and safety from 3 dose groups of Mitizodone Phosphate.The dose be found in phase 2 period will be evaluated on efficacy and safety when compared with placebo in phase 3 period with a duration of 8 weeks treatment.The target subjects are patients with MDD.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and Theta burst stimulation (TBS) are approved by the US. Food and Drug administration (FDA) for the treatment of refractory major depression. TBS is more efficient than rTMS as it requires shorter stimulation time.Studies suggest that the efficacy of TBS could be enhanced and expedited by accelerated protocols (more than once daily sessions) with higher doses of stimulation (>600 TBS pulses up to 3600 pulses per session) and shorter duration of treatment (4-10days). The main objective of this study is to determine the clinical efficacy and safety of accelerated high dose bilateral TBS treatment for patients with treatment resistant depression in comparison to sham stimulation using a randomized double blind clinical trial design.