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Interleaved TMS-fMRI in Ultra-treatment Resistant Depression

Major Depressive Disorder

This is a study that will recruit patients from the neurosurgery clinic and the regular TMS clinic. It's a smaller study designed to collect brain imaging pre-treatment and then use image guided TMS to treat patient with a one week "accelerated" rTMS protocol using the research TMS machine that is housed in Dr. Sean Nestor's lab. The idea is to examine whether severe treatment resistant depression has a different brain signature than less severe/TRD and whether the investigators can get a therapeutic response from patients that would otherwise undergo neurosurgery or will ultimately undergo neurosurgery.

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Participation Requirements

  • Sex:

    ALL

  • Eligible Ages:

    20 to 65

Participation Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

* Age 20-65
* Have a diagnosis of MDD or persistent depressive disorder and meet criteria for a major depressive episode (moderate-severe) according to the DSM 5.0 with a 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale Score in Depression (HRSD-17) of \>=18
* UTRD subjects will also have a duration of depressive symptoms \>=5 years, treatment resistance to antidepressants will be defined by Maudsley-staging, failing \>6 antidepressants (level 4) and \>1 adjunctive antidepressants of adequate dose/duration, failed at \>=1 psychotherapy, and no response to \>=1 trial of esketamine, IV ketamine, ECT or rTMS
* Milder TRD participants will have failed at least 1 antidepressant medication of adequate dose/duration and never had neuromodulation treatment

Exclusion criteria:

* Contraindications to MRI
* Medical/psychiatric co-morbidities that prevent participation in the study or where depression is not the primary psychiatric symptom of concern
* History of psychosis, pregnancy, substance dependence within the last 6 months
* Active neurological disorder
* History of seizure disorder
* Cognitive impairment
* Unable to provide informed consent on their own
* Pregnant

Study Location

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Contact Study Team

Primary Contact

aNUSHA Basakran, PhD

[email protected]
416-480-6100
Study Sponsored By
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Participants Required
More Information
Study ID: NCT05813093