- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
- Interventions
- Ketamine only
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Other
- Eligibility
- 25 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 10 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2026
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Depression clinical trials
Directory of U.S. ClinicalTrials.gov public records for Depression. Browse Depression recruiting trials, filter by phase, sponsor, location, or intervention, and open the official ClinicalTrials.gov study record for each result.
By Clinical Trials Finder Guidance last reviewed June 10, 2026 Data synced October 3, 2026 Report an issue
Data is sourced from official ClinicalTrials.gov public API records. Always review the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for the latest information.
These results were retrieved from the live ClinicalTrials.gov registry. Filters and sort order apply to this result list.
How Depression studies are organized in the registry
Most records use the formal term “major depressive disorder” or MDD rather than “depression” alone, and “treatment-resistant depression” (TRD) labels a distinct, sizable subset. The portfolio includes many behavioral, digital, and device interventions, so the intervention and study-type filters do real work here.
These describe how studies tend to be titled and grouped on ClinicalTrials.gov — they are search vocabulary, not medical guidance.
Live official records
Open in full search- Conditions
- Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Major Depression
- Interventions
- Arm 1, 2, 3 device interventions, Arm 2 Interventions, Arm 1, 2, 3 drug Interventions, Arm 1 and 2 Interventions
- Device · Other · Drug
- Lead sponsor
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- NIH
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 70 Years
- Enrollment
- 70 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2020 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Bethesda, Maryland
- Conditions
- Late Life Treatment Resistant Depression, Depression - Major Depressive Disorder, Treatment Resistant Depression
- Interventions
- Aripiprazole Augmentation, Bupropion Augmentation
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Other
- Eligibility
- 60 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 300 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2026 – 2029
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- St Louis, Missouri
- Conditions
- Treatment Resistant Depression
- Interventions
- Propofol
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- University of Utah
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 55 Years
- Enrollment
- 32 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2019 – 2022
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Episode, Depression - Major Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
- Interventions
- LTFUS to SCC, LTFUS to ALIC
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- Brian Mickey
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 30 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2025 – 2026
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Conditions
- Depression
- Interventions
- Racemic ketamine, Spravato (Esketamine)
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Yale University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 400 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2025 – 2030
- U.S. locations
- 8
- States / cities
- Milford, Connecticut • New Haven, Connecticut • Atlanta, Georgia + 5 more
- Conditions
- Depression in Adolescence, Obesity & Overweight, Cognitive-behavioral Therapy, Mobile Health Technology (mHealth), Health Behavior
- Interventions
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), Digital app
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- Colorado State University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 12 Years to 17 Years
- Enrollment
- 60 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2027 – 2028
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Aurora, Colorado
- Conditions
- Epilepsy, Depressive Disorder
- Interventions
- Vagus nerve stimulation device: acute and chronic administration of investigational vagus nerve stimulation parameters
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- University of Minnesota
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 144 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2023 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 5
- States / cities
- Stanford, California • Minneapolis, Minnesota • St Louis, Missouri + 2 more
- Conditions
- Type 2 Diabetes, Depression, Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Adolescent Development
- Interventions
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Health Education
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- Colorado State University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 12 Years to 17 Years
- Enrollment
- 120 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2022 – 2025
- U.S. locations
- 4
- States / cities
- Aurora, Colorado • Fort Collins, Colorado • Washington D.C., District of Columbia + 1 more
- Conditions
- Treatment Resistant Depression
- Interventions
- Prefrontal Cortical Stimulation (PCS)
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- University of Minnesota
- Other
- Eligibility
- 22 Years to 70 Years
- Enrollment
- 15 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2021 – 2032
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Conditions
- Concussion, Brain, Treatment, Aerobic Exercise, Inflammation, Depression, Anxiety
- Interventions
- High Dose Exercise
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
- Other
- Eligibility
- 13 Years to 18 Years
- Enrollment
- 178 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2022 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 3
- States / cities
- Aurora, Colorado • Boston, Massachusetts • Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder, Anhedonia
- Interventions
- Delta-beta tACS via the Neurocare Direct Current Stimulator Multi-Channel 4, Theta-gamma tACS via the Neurocare Direct Current Stimulator Multi-Channel 4, Sham tACS via the Neurocare Direct Current Stimulator Multi-Channel 4
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- Florida State University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 72 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2024 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Tallahassee, Florida
About this Depression clinical trials directory page
- What this page lists
- U.S. ClinicalTrials.gov public records that list Depression as a study condition, including recruiting, not yet recruiting, and active not recruiting trials across phase 1, phase 2, and phase 3.
- How to narrow results
- Use the filters above to scope by intervention, sponsor, city, state, recruitment status, phase, study type, healthy volunteer eligibility, sex, age, or NCT ID within Depression.
- Where the data comes from
- Records are sourced from the official ClinicalTrials.gov public API. Each result links back to the official study page, which is the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, ranking of trials by quality, or AI-generated medical summaries.
Related: all condition pages, browse by drug or therapy, browse by U.S. city, browse by sponsor, or open the full search for Depression.