Structural-functional Brain Changes in Severely Depressed Patients Before and After Treatment With Electroconvulsive Therapy: an Exploratory Study
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Severe Depression
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
- Enrollment
- 17
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Morphological changes in the hippocampus between baseline and after the first ECT effective session as assessed by volume measure in multimodal MRI.
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a non-pharmacological treatment used in resistant depression whose effectiveness has been demonstrated. However, the brain mechanisms underlying this therapeutic effect remain unclear. Many animal studies show a neurotrophic action of ECT on the hippocampus: increased neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, proliferation of glial cells. In addition, functional imaging of "resting state" type have shown, among depressed patients after ECT, increased functional connectivity . These results were reinforced by the recent work of Perrin (2012). In view of this a priori contradictory, it seems appropriate to continue research neuroanatomical correlates subtending neurofunctional processes responsible at the same time improving the clinical depressive. The investigators suggest using an original technique never used in this type of population: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) or multimodal structural-functional. This method will allow us to study the impact of ECT on brain structures involved in major depressive disorder: hippocampus.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V (DSM) diagnosis of major depressive disorder
- •indication of ECT and signing the consent for conducting a ECT
- •right-handed
- •be of French mother tongue
- •belong to a social security scheme
- •sign an informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •against indication for MRI
- •against indication to anesthesia
- •processes brain expensive
- •pregnant woman
- •refuse to be informed of an abnormality detected during MRI
- •Patients holders of stimulation electrodes
- •presence history of neurological disease
- •presence history of head injury
- •Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) \<15/30
- •presence of neurodegenerative disease
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Morphological changes in the hippocampus between baseline and after the first ECT effective session as assessed by volume measure in multimodal MRI.
Time Frame: Within 48 hours after the first effective ECT session.
Visit 3 will take place within 48 hours after the first ECT session effective.
Secondary Outcomes
- Functional connectivity changes of the hippocampus-related networks between baseline and after the first effective ECT session as assessed by measure of connectivity in multimodal MRI.(Within 48 hours after the first effective ECT session.)
- Morphological changes of the hippocampus-related networks between baseline and after the first ECT session as assessed by measure of volume in multimodal MRI.(Within 48 hours after the first ECT session.)
- Morphological changes of the hippocampus-related networks between baseline and after the first ECT session as assessed by average diffusivity in multimodal MRI.(Within 48 hours after the first ECT session.)
- Functional changes of the hippocampal-related networks between baseline and after the first ECT session as assessed by measure of connectivity in multimodal MRI.(Within 48 hours after the first ECT session.)
- Morphological changes in the hippocampus and hippocampal-related networks related to ECT between baseline and after remission as assessed by(Within 10 days after remission.)
- Morphological changes in the hippocampus and hippocampal-related networks related to ECT between baseline and after remission as assessed by measure of volume in multimodal MRI(Within 10 days after remission.)
- Functional changes in the hippocampus and hippocampal-related networks related to ECT after remission as assessed by measure of connectivity in multimodal MRI.(Within 10 days after remission)
- Changes in the intensity of depressive symptoms score (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale) after the first ECT, ECT first "effective" and after remission(Within 7 days before first ECT, after the first ECT, within 48 hours after the first effective ECT and within 10 days after remission)
- Evolution of Real Life/Real Impact-16 (RLRI-16) score after the first ECT, after ECT first "effective" and after remission(Within 7 days before first ECT, after the first ECT, within 48 hours after the first effective ECT and within 10 days after remission)