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Enhanced Spatial Targeting in ECT Utilizing Focally Electrically-administered Seizure Therapy (FEAST)

Status: Recruiting

The purpose of this study is to look at a different type of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) that may reduce negative side effects while still providing relief from symptoms of major depression.

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Age: 18 years and over
Healthy Volunteers:
This study is NOT accepting healthy volunteers
Inclusion Criteria:

• age 22 to 90
• diagnosis of major depression
• ECT recommended for treatment
Exclusion Criteria:

• other psychiatric diagnosis such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, other psychosis
• history of neurological illness -alcohol or substance abuse or dependence in the past year
• ECT in the past six months
Conditions:

Mental Health & Addiction

Keywords:

depression, ECT, Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), major depressive disorder

Contact(s): Interventional Psychiatry Lab Study - ipl@umn.edu
Principal Investigator: Ziad Nahas
Phase: NA
IRB Number: STUDY00006734
System ID: 25354
See this study on ClinicalTrials.gov

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