Active clinical trials for "Depression"

The purpose of the study is to describe, over 6 weeks, the evolution of depressive symptoms in patients with mild to moderate major depression in a strategy with Phytostandard® Rhodiola-Saffron supplementation

In a number of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, both brain inflammation and glutamate mediated excitotoxicity (cell death through over-activated stimulation) are suspected to play a key role. It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the potential destructiveness of the inflammatory response seen in disease states by studying the brain's inflammatory cells (microglia) activity in isolation. The investigators are proposing to develop the means to concurrently study inflammatory response (i.e., microglial activity) and its potentially devastating consequence (i.e., glutamate excitotoxicity) across the entire brain in order to establish the importance of inflammation. In this study the investigators propose a phased clinical study whereby the early-phase involves the development of our capacity to study inflammation-mediated damage to brain cells, followed by a feasibility study in patients with clinical depression that tests whether concurrent inflammation and glutamate excess could be measured in key brain regions associated with a depressed mood state.

Aims: assess the relationship between sexual function and depressive symptoms in individuals with spinal cord injury.

Depression adversely affects quality of life in COPD patients, associated with higher rate of exacerbations, admissions and mortality. However, local prevalence rate of depression in geriatric COPD patients remains unknown. Though BODE index is superior to FEV1 in prediction of depression in COPD, it is unclear which domain of BODE correlates best with depression. Furthermore, with multiple confounding factors, it's ambiguous that whether frequent exacerbation is an 'independent' predictor for depression among COPD patients. The objective of this study is i.) to study the local prevalence rate of depression in geriatric COPD patients, ii.) to identify risk factors for depression especially looking at the any independent relationship between frequent exacerbations, various domains of BODE index and depression.

This study will examine differences in activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain area involved in emotion and cognitive regulation, between older adults with and without depression.

A retrospective study using a data base of anonymized medical records. The purpose of the study is to examine the different therapeutic strategies for the management of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and suboptimal response to antidepressant drugs in primary care

The purpose of this study is to describe patient functioning and examine associations between depressive symptoms and measures of the various roles of functioning.

This is an observational, non controlled, multicentric, prospective study planned to be conducted in 350 subjects diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 20 centres of Argentina to identify the predictive factors leading to depression. The incidence of depression symptoms and its influence in the evolution of the disease are unknown in the Argentinean population. Early diagnosis of depression symptoms allows the specific treatment of them and can also delay the rich apparition of the disease. This study intends to quantify the incidence of these symptoms and also aims to evaluate which are the predictive factors of the apparition of the depression.

The purpose of this study is to investigate risk factors associated with depression and how such factors might be transmitted cross-generationally. The investigators are conducting an integrative assessment of emotion regulation and stress reactivity in a group of mothers with and without a history of depression and their daughters.

Many older adults have undetected health problems and lack basic prevention measures. Failure to identify and treat these conditions can lead to unnecessary morbidity and mortality and a decreased quality of life. Traditional screening and intervention programs, usually based in primary care providers' offices, have been insufficient, particularly in medically underserved populations. Alternate sites for screening and intervention have begun to receive attention and may hold promise. The emergency department (ED) is the entry point for access to medical and social services for many patients and has the potential to serve as a site to identify older adults with unmet needs. However, we do not know the prevalence of depression and cognitive impairment and how they differ by mode of arrival of the patient to the ED. Second, a question remains as to the validity of screening patients during an acute illness. Upon completion, this study will describe the epidemiology of the population of older adults presenting to the ED.