- Conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Major
- Interventions
- Seltorexant, Placebo
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC
- Industry
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 74 Years
- Enrollment
- 588 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2020 – 2024
- U.S. locations
- 51
- States / cities
- Anaheim, California • Cerritos, California • Irvine, California + 42 more
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.
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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
- Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)
- Interventions
- Transmagnetic Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- Austin Messner
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 1 participant
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2025
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Lexington, Kentucky
- Conditions
- Depression in Adolescence, Delayed Sleep Phase
- Interventions
- TranS-C, Psychoeducation
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Other
- Eligibility
- 12 Years to 18 Years
- Enrollment
- 200 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2024 – 2028
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Los Angeles, California
- Conditions
- Depression, Unipolar Depression, Treatment Resistant Depression
- Interventions
- Magnetic Seizure Therapy, Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 239 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2018 – 2024
- U.S. locations
- 2
- States / cities
- San Diego, California • Dallas, Texas
- Conditions
- Treatment Resistant Depression
- Interventions
- VLS-01-203 BU, VLS-01-BU Placebo
- Drug
- Lead sponsor
- atai Therapeutics, Inc.
- Industry
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 142 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2024 – 2026
- U.S. locations
- 34
- States / cities
- Tucson, Arizona • Little Rock, Arkansas • Rogers, Arkansas + 30 more
- Conditions
- Emotional Regulation, Depression, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Eating Disorders
- Interventions
- Checking the Facts, Opposite to Emotion Action, Mindfulness of Current Emotions
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- Matthew Southward, PhD
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 390 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2023 – 2026
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Columbus, Ohio
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Anxiety Depression, Worry, Depression, Rumination - Thoughts
- Interventions
- Be Specific, Be Kind, Be Present, Break Habit, Psychoeducation
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 500 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2026 – 2028
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Imperial, California
- Conditions
- PTSD, Depression, Opioid Use Disorder
- Interventions
- Modeling to Learn (MTL), Usual quality improvement (QI)
- Behavioral
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Federal
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 720 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2021 – 2026
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Palo Alto, California
- Conditions
- Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression, Postoperative Complications (Cardiopulmonary), Respiratory Complications Due to Anesthesia
- Interventions
- Infrared Pupillometry
- Device
- Lead sponsor
- NeurOptics Inc
- Industry
- Eligibility
- 3 Years to 17 Years
- Enrollment
- 300 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2026 – 2027
- U.S. locations
- 2
- States / cities
- San Francisco, California • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Conditions
- Depression, Anxiety, Satisfaction, Well-being
- Interventions
- Comprehensive Well-Being Intervention
- Other
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 293 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2023 – 2025
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Conditions
- Depression, Anxiety, Palliative Care, Caregivers, Cancer
- Interventions
- Problem-Solving Therapy, Attention-matched Control, In-depth interviews
- Behavioral · Other
- Lead sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years and older
- Enrollment
- 532 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
- Timeline
- 2022 – 2025
- U.S. locations
- 3
- States / cities
- Columbia, Missouri • St Louis, Missouri • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Conditions
- Depression Disorder
- Interventions
- Chiropractic Care
- Other
- Lead sponsor
- Life University
- Other
- Eligibility
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Enrollment
- 20 participants
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
- Timeline
- 2027 – 2028
- U.S. locations
- 1
- States / cities
- Marietta, Georgia
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.
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