A Double Blind Randomised Pilot Study of Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients With Treatment Resistant Unipolar Major Depressive Disorder.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 8
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Decrease in Montgomery and Asberg Rating Scale score of at least 50% at an average of 18 months after implantation.
研究概览
简要总结
Recurrent major depressive disorder affects about 3-5% of the population. It is anticipated that by 2020, depression will be the most common cause of disability worldwide in the 18-55 age group. About two-thirds of these patients respond to first-line treatment (antidepressants). In addition, prolonged administration of antidepressants in patients who respond results in remission in 80% of patients per year. However, a significant proportion of patients either fail to respond in spite of determined pharmacological treatments, electroconvulsive therapy and other treatments or do not achieve sustained remission. The personal, psychiatric, medical, social and economic consequences are devastating for these, treatment resistant, patients. This investigation aims to evaluate the feasibility of deep brain stimulation in patients with treatment resistant depression as a viable alternative to ablative neurosurgery.The hypothesis is that some patients will respond to stimulation in one site rather than the other and that some patients will respond to double rather than single site stimulation.
详细描述
Patients will be selected according to inclusion/ exclusion criteria after referral from their psychiatric team or, in exceptional cases, from their GP. Patients will be referred to the trial after being assessed by Dr Malizia (Consultant Senior Lecturer) in the Treatment Resistant Disorders Psychopharmacology clinic in the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Informed written consent and baseline measures will be taken for all patients.
We plan to recruit 8 patients with treatment resistant unipolar depression for a single blind trial of bilateral consecutive deep brain stimulation of Cg25 and ventral anterior capsule separately and then together. Medication will be left unchanged and maintained to the same level until the end of the study postoperatively. However, medication thought to be potentially detrimental in the long term will be stopped or reduced prior to surgery and a period of at least 6 weeks stability in prescribed medication will be required prior to baseline assessment.
The surgical procedure will be under general anaesthesia and will consist of implanting bilateral deep brain stimulating electrodes (four overall) into Brodmann's area 25 and the nucleus accumbens/ ventral anterior capsule. Following the operation a period of one-week recovery will be allowed to minimise any effect secondary to target impact effect at surgery or from post-operative oedema.
After recovery the combination of electrodes with maximal response will be assessed in a double blind design (patient and raters).
Stimulation will be bilateral. Four patients will be randomised to receive Cg25 stimulation first and 4 patients will be randomised to receive anterior capsule/ventral striatal stimulation first. Patients will be blind to the order of stimulation, to the contacts selected and to any 'off' period in the contact selection process.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 盲法
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients who have major depressive disorder (according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version IV) and who:
- •Do not respond or have ceased to respond to treatment including:
- •Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) or other validated psychotherapy.
- •Antidepressants from three different classes in BNF or maximum tolerated (if lower than BNF) doses
- •Lithium augmentation
- •2 courses of ECT (or only respond to "maintenance" ECT)(lack of response in previous episodes and unwillingness to try again will also count).
- •Consent to take part in the trial
- •Are physically fit
- •Have no suicidal intent
- •Have no history of hypomania, mania or psychosis
- •Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale score > 21
排除标准
- •Patients with a history of continuous depression from late teens or early twenties without clear response to treatments or without periods of spontaneous remission,
- •History of significant head trauma
- •Cerebral infarcts
- •Poor physical health
- •No capacity to consent
- •Inability to carry out research protocol
- •Mood incongruent psychotic phenomena or drug or alcohol addiction. In addition patients will be excluded if detained under the Mental Health Act.
结局指标
主要结局
Decrease in Montgomery and Asberg Rating Scale score of at least 50% at an average of 18 months after implantation.
时间窗: End of contact selection and adjustment plus 6 months. An average of 18 months after implantation.
MADRS is a standard depression rating scale for major depressive disorder over time
次要结局
- Clinical Global Impression Improvement Scale(CGI-I). Score <4.(End of contact selection and adjustment plus 6 months. An average of 18 months after implantation)
- Global Assessment of Functioning scale, an improvement of >1/2(100-initial score)(End of contact selection and adjustment plus 6 months. An average of 18 months after implantation)
- A decrease of 50% in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (17 items) at End of contact selection and adjustment plus 6 months. An average of 18 months after implantation(End of contact selection and adjustment plus 6 months. An average of 18 months after implantation)
研究者
Dr Andrea Malizia
Dr Andrea Malizia
North Bristol NHS Trust