Neural and Antidepressant Effects of Propofol (Phase 2)
- Registration Number
- NCT03923361
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Utah
- Brief Summary
Moderate-intensity propofol treatments will be administered to participants who are non-responders at the end of Phase 1.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- WITHDRAWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
- Age 18-55
- Diagnosis of major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder
- Current moderate-to-severe depressive episode
- Episode duration more than 2 months and less than 5 years
- Failure of at least 2 adequate antidepressant medication trials within the past 2 years
- Body mass index < 40
- 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology, self-rated > 10
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Exclusion Criteria
- Contraindication to propofol or midazolam
- Daily use of benzodiazepine, opioid, ACE inhibitor, or ARB medication
- Symptomatic coronary artery disease or heart failure
- Poorly controlled hypertension or diabetes
- Abnormal kidney or liver function
- Pregnant or breast feeding
- Traumatic brain injury or significant neurologic signs (past year)
- Substance use disorder (past year)
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (current)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (current)
- Schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (lifetime)
- Neurocognitive disorder (current)
- Personality disorder as a current focus of treatment
- ECT within the past 3 months
- Inappropriate for ECT, or poor response to ECT within the past 5 years
- Incompetent to provide consent
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Propofol Diprivan -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression 3 weeks after baseline 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, total score Higher values represent more severe depressive symptoms Maximum score, 76; minimum score, 0 Remission defined as total score \< 10 Response defined as decrease of total score from baseline \> 50%
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Univeristy Neuropsychiatric Institute
🇺🇸Salt Lake City, Utah, United States