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The Role of Neuromodulation Technique In Depression Disorder

Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05047159
Enrollment
450
Registered
2021-09-16
Start date
2022-11-01
Completion date
2024-06-30
Last updated
2022-10-27

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Conditions

Depressive Disorder, Major

Brief summary

This study aims to explore the efficacy, safety and long-term effects of common and available non-invasive neuromodulation techniques in the treatment of depression, and to provide a data basis for the establishment of individualized treatment and efficacy prediction models. 450 patients will be enrolled and randomly assigned to five different treatments. Psychopathological assessment will be performed in both acute and maintenance phases of treatment with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, and the Patient Health Questionaire-9, the Sheehan Disability Scale, the Vascular Quality of Life-6 Questionnaire respectively.

Interventions

DEVICErTMS

Stimulation will be performed for 20 working days once a day (4 weeks). Extend course to 30 sessions (6 weeks) in responders who have not achieved symptom remission. Frequency: 10Hz; Intensity: 110% RMT; Coil-type: F8; Sessions-pulse: 3000; Site: the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

DEVICElight therapy

Active 10,000-lux fluorescent white light box for 30 min/d in the early morning for 6 weeks.

DEVICEECT

The electrode placements are bifrontal (BF); the electrical intensity is 1.5 to 2.0 times the seizure threshold (ST); 3 times per week.

DEVICEMST

A coil placement at the vertex (i.e., Cz in 10-20 electroencephalogram \[EEG\] system) with a frequency of stimulation of 100 Hz, pulse width of 0.2 to 0.4 ms, and stimulation duration of 10 seconds; 2 times per week.

DRUGdrug therapy

There is no restriction on the choice of therapeutic drugs.

Sponsors

Shanghai Mental Health Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Age 18-60; 2. Meet the DSM-IV major Depressive Episode diagnostic criteria and are currently in the depressive episode (MDE) stage; 3. The 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD-17) score was \> 17, and the HAMD-17 item 1 (depression) score was ≥2; 4. Failure to respond adequately to at least one of the new antidepressants (including a HAMD-17 reduction rate of less than 50% and an intolerant drug side effect); 5. Junior high school education or above, with sufficient audio-visual understanding of the research content, and signed the informed consent; 6. If drug therapy is used at the same time, the medication regimen should remain unchanged at least 4 weeks before the follow-up group, and continue to remain unchanged during the neurological intervention in the acute phase; 7. Right-handed.

Exclusion criteria

1. Schizophrenia, or psychotic symptoms unrelated to depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, etc.;Personality disorders and mental retardation;Patients with depression caused by physical diseases; 2. Suffering from the following serious diseases:History of brain injury or cerebrovascular accident, narrow-angle glaucoma, epilepsy, myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, severe cirrhosis, acute and chronic renal failure, severe diabetes, aplastic anemia,Moderate to severe malnutrition and other serious neurological, heart, liver, kidney, endocrine, blood system and other physical diseases or diseases that may interfere with the study (abnormal index is more than 2 times the normal value); 3. Patients with metal implants or electronic instruments (such as embedded intracranial electrodes, cochlea, medical pump, etc.), photosensitive dermatitis and other skin diseases or other contraindications in the body; 4. Intracranial mass, cerebral infarction, increased intracranial pressure, or other active central nervous system disease, including epilepsy;Dementia, delirium, memory loss or other cognitive disorders;Brain trauma that increases the risk of seizures; 5. Severe drug allergic reaction; 6. Pregnant, lactating or planning to become pregnant; 7. Substance abuse (excluding caffeine and nicotine) in the past 3 months; 8. Received rTMS, tDCS, tACS, light therapy, ECT, MST, DBS therapy in the past 3 months; 9. Serious suicide attempt (hamD-17 item 3 suicide score ≥3); 10. Refuse to sign the informed consent.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
the change of the HAMD-17 scorebaseline, and 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks.the change of HAMD-17 score between baseline and after treatment.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
remission rate12, 24, 36, 48 weeks.HAMD-17 total score ≤ 7 after treatment.
response rate12, 24, 36, 48 weeks.a reduction rate of HAMD-17 score ≥ 50% from baseline after treatment.

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026