Active clinical trials for "Mood Disorders"

MyMood is an electronic mood-charting tool available to the general population of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC). This project aims to characterize duration and frequency of use of MyMood by users characteristics and determine if there is any significant variability in duration and frequency of use attributable to users' age, sex, self-reported diagnosis of a mood disorder, and/or prior treatment.

Precision medicine is to achieve individual optimal health care, given the biological mechanisms, genetic variants, and environmental measurements. Take mood disorder (MD) as an example, we aim to develop systems and precision medicine in Taiwanese population. MD is a very serious and dysfunctional mental disorder. Since MD patients with treatment have high risk of neurocognitive impairment and metabolic disturbances, the therapeutic strategies are of clinical importance. Individual difference of treatment outcome in MD patients would result from genetic variants, environmental factors, and their interactions. Also, the treatment outcome of MD contains multiple dimensions, including improvement of disease severity, neurocognitive function, and optimized medication strategy. However, comprehensive development of approaches to investigate the multiple dimensions of treatment outcome in MD patients is limited. In this three-year proposal, we explore the interactions of genetic variants and environmental factors (represented by psychosocial stress and gut microbiota) driven approaches to develop precision medicine.

This is a cross-sectional study evaluating mood disorders in bladder cancer patients and their caregivers across the bladder cancer trajectory

This study aims to investigate psychosocial risk- and protective factors such as psychiatric disorder, socio-economic background and family functioning among school dropouts and to compare the findings with those by a matched control group of regularly enrolled students.

The purpose of this study is to characterize the behavior of cardiac patients with Mood Disorders and its clinical course, interpreting the results from a theoretical framework of Chaos Theory and Complexity Theory and Systems as well.

Racing thoughts relate to subjective acceleration of thinking which has been essentially associated with manic episodes in bipolar disorder. Qualitatively, the phenomenology of racing thoughts in major depression seems to differ from rumination and pure manic racing thoughts: thoughts of all kinds accumulate in the patient's head. Recent qualitative evidence is consistent with the existence of these two kinds of "thought overactivity" related to mood disorders. In order to evaluate this and better understand the psychopathological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie thought overactivity in mood disorders, we have created a 34-item self-questionnaire - the Racing and Crowded Thoughts Questionnaire (RCTQ) and a number of neuropsychological tasks (time perception, cognitive flexibility). Also, given the relationship between mood disorders and creativity, it is likely that thought overactivity is related to increased creativity. We aim at evaluating this relationship through the French version of the Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity scale (CPAC).

The aim of this project is to examine the serotonergic transmitter system using functional imaging of the brain (positron emission tomography [PET]) to gain knowledge about early pathophysiological changes in Alzheimer's dementia and mood disorders.