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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Mechanism of Antidepressant-Related Dysfunctional Arousal in High-Risk Youth

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02553161

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Brief summary

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A 16-week double blind, placebo-controlled investigation of escitalopram in adolescents with depression and/or anxiety with a family history of Bipolar Disorder. Subjects will be evaluated using semi-structured diagnostic interviews and symptom ratings, participate in a MRI scan and then randomized to treatment. Following randomization, high-risk youth will have visits every week for the first 4 weeks of treatment then biweekly up to 16 weeks during which time tolerability and ratings will be performed. MRI scan will be repeated at week 4.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02553161
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Cincinnati
Other
Enrollment
214 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
12 Years to 17 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Nov 30, 2015
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2022
Completion
Nov 30, 2022
Last update posted
Feb 25, 2024

2015 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
2
U.S. states
2
U.S. cities
2
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Stanford University Stanford California 94305-2004
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio 45219

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