Active clinical trials for "Depressive Disorder, Major"

The purpose of this study is to determine how warfarin might affect LY2216684 and how giving LY2216684 might affect warfarin in the body. Information about any side effects that may occur will also be collected.

The purpose of this study is to determine how much digoxin gets into the blood stream and how long it takes the body to get rid of it when given with LY2216684. Information about any side effects that may occur will also be collected.

The purpose of this study is to determine how much lorazepam gets into the blood and how long it takes the body to get rid of it when given together with LY2216684. Information about any side effects that may occur will also be collected.

This study will test the effectiveness of two different kinds of omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplements in treating the symptoms of major depression.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the Dialogues Time to Talk program in subjects treated with Venlafaxine Extended Release (ER). Dialogues Time to Talk Program is a patient management program, which aims to help patients achieve successful outcomes by reinforcing physician treatment efforts, providing feedback to treating physicians, and encouraging better physician-patient communications.

The main treatment option for Treatment Resistant Depression is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) which is often effective but complicated by cognitive side effects, need for anaesthesia and considerable stigma. In recent years considerable efforts have been made to increase public awareness about depression and increase access to services. However, the increasing number of patients accessing treatment for depression in clinical services is also likely to be accompanied by a sizeable increase in the number of patients with TRD. Despite the demand, relatively few treatment options are available to such patients. One of the only substantially new treatments developed for TRD in recent years has been the advent of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Repetitive TMS has been evaluated in over 20 trials conducted over the last 10 years. Previous research indicates that rTMS has antidepressant activity; however, the proportion of patients who respond to rTMS and the degree of treatment response demonstrated in trials to date is limited. The limitations of these studies include relatively small samples and limited duration of treatment (i.e., 2 weeks) as well as a lack of long term follow-up. As rTMS is gradually entering use in routine clinical practice (for example, recent regulation of its use in Canada), research is urgently required to establish ways to enhance treatment response both in regards to the extent of response within individuals and the proportion of individuals in whom rTMS has effects. Stimulation site is another important treatment factor; thus far almost all of the trials of rTMS in TRD conducted have evaluated the utility of high frequency left prefrontal cortex (PFC) rTMS (HFL-TMS). In addition, several studies have evaluated the treatment efficacy of low frequency rTMS to right PFC (LFR-TMS). In a previously published study we have demonstrated that these two approaches have similar therapeutic benefit and both were superior to sham stimulation. A promising new approach to enhance efficacy involves combining LFR-TMS and HFL-TMS in a sequential manner. We describe this as sequential bilateral rTMS (SB-rTMS). We have recently published the results of the first substantial evaluation of SB-rTMS showing not only a superiority to placebo in TRD but also a therapeutic response that is substantially superior to response rates in most of the published studies of unilateral rTMS (>50% of patients achieving standard criteria for clinical response compared to usually <30% in most studies). In this proposed research study, we will directly test the hypothesis that SB-rTMS produces a greater therapeutic response than HFL-TMS and compare both of these forms of stimulation to placebo (i.e., sham) stimulation.

To evaluate the early onset of efficacy of vortioxetine 17 mg intravenously (IV) and vortioxetine 10 mg/day oral dose regimen versus placebo IV and vortioxetine 10 mg/day oral dose regimen on depressive symptoms

This study is evaluating the safety and feasibility of the novel deep TMS H-coil designs in the treatment of resistant major depression in an open study using two different H-coil designs.

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of GW679769 patients with Major depressive Disorder (MDD).

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of duloxetine 60 mg once daily to placebo on depression in elderly patients (greater than or equal to 65 years of age). Patients who do not respond in the first 13 weeks will be eligible for rescue using pre-defined criteria. Patients randomized to duloxetine 60 mg/day meeting the rescue criteria will be increased to 120 mg/day. Patients randomized to the placebo arm meeting the rescue criteria will be assigned to duloxetine 60 mg/day.