Active clinical trials for "Depression"

It is currently accepted that depression during midlife is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Furthermore, several prospective population studies have demonstrated that depression is an independent risk factor for incident dementia of different types (e.g. vascular, mixed, Alzheimer's disease). However, it is not clear, what are the mechanisms that link depression and dementia, and if depression can be a prodromal manifestation of AD. There are also studies that suggest that depression could be an initial sign of AD. Objective: Demonstrate that late life depression (over 60 years of age) constitutes the first manifestation of AD. Define by rating scales and life stressors have differential risk profiles evolutionary AD. To study the relationship between the subtypes of depression and CSF biomarkers, neurophycological test and evolution to AD.

The purpose of this study is to use positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to measure the activity of the kappa opioid receptor (KOR) in the brains of depressed and non-depressed individuals.

This study examines whether depression in people with borderline personality disorder is different than depression in people without borderline personality disorder. Unlike people who have depression alone (i.e. without borderline personality disorder), people with borderline personality disorder have depressions that often do not improve with medications. This makes treating depression much more challenging in someone with borderline personality disorder than without borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorderis associated with difficulty in understanding and communicating feelings. Impaired emotion processing may reflect dysfunction of an area of the brain, the anterior cingulate. Depression is associated with changes in anterior cingulate activity. The investigators believe that when borderline personality disorder is present with depression, brain activity changes in the anterior cingulate will not be the same as in depressed patients without borderline personality disorder. An electroencephalogram records brain electrical activity. In this study, the investigators will measure electroencephalogram indices reflecting anterior cingulate activity. HYPOTHESIS: In this study, the investigators predict that when borderline personality is present with depression, electroencephalogram indices of anterior cingulate activity will be different from when depression is present alone (without borderline personality). This could help to explain why people with borderline personality have depressions that are harder to treat than depressions in people without borderline personality. The investigators also predict that electroencephalogram indices of the anterior cingulate will reflect emotional processing ability, as measured by validated questionnaires.

The goal of this study is to determine whether there are unique markers on neuroimaging that are associated with depression in epilepsy.

Aiberry is creating a multi-modal artificial intelligence (AI) platform that analyzes facial, audio and text features to screen for mental illness. This multicenter study will be used to collect data to validate the platform's ability to detect depression and anxiety in a diverse patient population.

We are evaluating an online single-session intervention for mental health promotion among Indian college students.

The purpose of this study is to adapt depression prevention interventions of proven benefit to the primary care setting in a manner that would be acceptable and potentially available to young adults in the community.

The participants of this study have been diagnosed with mild to moderate depression with no evidence of suicidal actions prior to recruitment. All recruited subjects receive standard therapy and participate in a metacognitive training program (D-MKT) independently of study participation. Diagnostic and therapeutical interventions are not part of this study. As part of this study, the change of cognitive and psychosocial achievement/behavior in patients with mild to moderate depression after taking part in the training program is being investigated. The training program seeks to enable group members to recognize and correct the often automatic and unconscious thought patterns that accompany depression, in part by viewing this depressive thought process at a distance (i.e., depersonalizing). In addition, dysfunctional assumptions about one's thought processes, as well as dysfunctional coping-strategies (i.e., thought suppression, rumination as problem-solving) are targeted (Lena Jelinek & Steffen Moritz, http://clinical-neuropsychology.de/metacognitive_training_for_depression.html). Within this study the cognitive and psychosocial behaviour changes are being investigated by neuropsychological assessment as well as questionnaires.

This is a Phase 2 double-blind, long-term observational follow-up study of participants from Study PSIL201. Participants providing informed consent will be enrolled into this study and will complete web surveys and telephone interviews conducted by one central site at the following time intervals: months 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (± 7 days for each assessment) and months 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 (± 14 days for each assessment).

The investigators plan to perform an observational study to evaluate the prevalence of burnout, depression and medical errors in a designated exclusive Covid-19 patients hospital in Malaysia, during the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, the relationship between burnout and depression with medical errors will be assessed. The population studied will be the nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit, who are at higher risk due to the nature of their work at the frontlines of the pandemic.