Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) for Severe Mood Disorder
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Official title
Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) for the Treatment of Severe Mood Disorder
Brief summary
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This study will compare the clinical efficacy and side effects of Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in patients currently experiencing a major depressive episode in the context of either unipolar or bipolar depression. The investigators will conduct a number of clinical and neuropsychological tests to assess clinical and cognitive response to treatment. The investigators hypothesize that: 1. MST and ECT will have similar antidepressant efficacy. 2. MST will have less post-treatment amnesia than ECT as reflected in primary measures of anterograde and retrograde amnesia following the acute treatment phase. 3. At follow up, MST will show a lesser degree of persisting deficit in measures of retrograde amnesia than ECT.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00488748
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 75 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2007
- Primary completion
- Jul 31, 2012
- Completion
- Jul 31, 2012
- Last update posted
- Jan 27, 2015
2007 – 2012
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | Durham | North Carolina | 27710 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Texas | 75390 | — |
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