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Inter-Brain Synchrony in Psychotherapy for Depression

NCT06196346 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 21

Last updated 2024-12-10

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Summary

The study aims to examine inter-brain synchrony between patients and therapists over the course of psychotherapy. Twenty patients will undergo a 16-session course of psychotherapy for major depressive disorder. The protocol used will be supportive-expressive psychotherapy (see Luborsky et al., 1995). Participants will also undergo Hamilton depression interviews a week before treatment, before every session and a week after treatment. functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) imaging will be used to record brain activity during every other session (sessions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15) as well as during interviews at baseline, on session 8 and at followup. Saliva samples will be collected during the same sessions to measure hormone and cytokine levels during the same sessions. Participants completed questionnaires before and after the study, and before and after each session.

The researchers hypothesized that synchrony will gradually increase over the psychotherapy sessions, and that synchrony in the pre-treatment interview will be lower than in the post-treatment interview.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychotherapy

see group description

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Haifa

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-23
Primary Completion
2024-09-19
Completion
2024-09-19

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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