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Brain Aging and Treatment Response in Geriatric Depression

NCT01902004 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2019-10-15

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Summary

The proposed project will evaluate the role of neuroimaging biomarkers of brain aging (i.e., neurodegenerative and vascular brain changes) and mild cognitive impairment in the patterns of treatment response to memantine combined with escitalopram compared to escitalopram and placebo.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Escitalopram

All subjects will receive 10 to 20mg of escitalopram open-label throughout the trial. Participants will begin taking one 10mg capsule once per day, and this dosage may be increased or decreased depending on the participant's response to the medication. Participants will continue on their assigned dosage of escitalopram until treatment completion.

DRUG

Memantine

Memantine dosage will be 5 to 20mg a day. Participants will initially take one 5mg capsule once a day, which will be gradually increased to a maximum of 10mg capsules twice per day.

DRUG

Placebo

Placebo pills will be taken in combination with the active Namenda (Memantine) pills. Participants will initially take 1 capsule per day, which will be increased to a maximum of 1 capsule twice per day.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Helen Lavretsky, M.D. · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-10-31
Primary Completion
2019-01-23
Completion
2019-01-23

Countries

  • United States

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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