Citalopram to Enhance Cognition in HD
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Official title
A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study in Huntington's Disease (CIT-HD)
Brief summary
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This research plan proposes to conduct a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot clinical trial in 36 adults with mild Huntington's disease (HD) to address the following research aims: 1. To determine the effect of citalopram compared to placebo in patients with early HD on executive function and other outcome variables including functional measures (health-related quality of life, work productivity, and self-reported attention), motor performance, and psychiatric status, 2. To study the relationship between executive function and functional status in patients with early HD after selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment, and 3. To examine the effect of citalopram treatment on volumetric and metabolic (i.e, N-acetyl-aspartate concentration) measures in the neostriatum among patients with recently diagnosed Huntington's disease.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00271596
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 33 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 75 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2005
- Primary completion
- Mar 31, 2011
- Completion
- Oct 31, 2011
- Last update posted
- Mar 12, 2013
2005 – 2011
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic Arizona | Scottsdale | Arizona | 85259 | — |
| The University of Iowa | Iowa City | Iowa | 52242 | — |
| University of Rochester | Rochester | New York | 14618 | — |
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