major depression disease
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
southern medical university
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) in accordance with the conventional disease diagnosis and treatment of TCM in Shanghai (second edition) and dsm-iv psychiatric diagnosis standard in the United States; (2) 24 Hamilton depression rating scale score of n p 20 points, namely the clinical - severe type; (3) aged 18 to 45 years old; (4) at least 1 week before the treatment was not used antidepressant drugs (including western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine) and other psychiatric drugs, or have been used but the cleaning at least 1 weeks; After two different types of antidepressants or at least more than 6 weeks, nearly 1 week is invalid, can maintain the original drug dosage into the group; (5) cultural degree for junior high school above; (6) course of more than 2 weeks; (7) right-handed; (8) no contraindications to MRI scanning; (9) with the approval of the hospital ethics committee, volunteer to participate in, and sign the informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) a history of schizophrenia, alcohol and drug dependence; (2) has a history of organic brain disease and endocrine diseases; (3) through inspection, heart, liver and kidney was abnormal urinalysis performed; (4) have a planned pregnancy, pregnancy and lactation women; (5) has a history of mania or hypomania attacks, past electroconvulsive therapy.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| HAMD-17; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactWang Weidong
Guang'an'men Hospital
Outcome results
None listed