Ketamine for Depression: An MRI Study
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Official title
Baseline Insular Dysfunction as a Predictor of Ketamine's Antidepressant Effects in Anxious Depression
Brief summary
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Ketamine has been shown to decrease symptoms of anxious depression quickly. This decrease has been shown to last for up to one month. MRI technology will be used before and after ketamine for patients with depression to examine the extent to which certain brain areas predict ketamine's antidepressant effects.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02544607
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Enrollment
- 25 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 64 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 2016 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Dec 29, 2017 (Actual)
- Completion
- Dec 29, 2017 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Apr 16, 2019
2016 – 2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 16, 2019 · Synced Nov 11, 2026
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