Clinical trialNCT00812227CompletedInterventional

Neural Correlates of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Depression

SponsorMassachusetts General HospitalEnrollment35Major Depressive Disorder

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to see whether we can predict which patients with depression will get better when we treat them with psychodynamic psychotherapy. We will use neuroimaging (a method of looking at brain activity) in this study. We want to see whether there are changes in the brains of patients receiving this type of therapy. We hypothesize that these changes may predict how well certain parts of the psychotherapy treatment process works.

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Investigators

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Janet Witte, MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Principal Investigator
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Joshua Roffman, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Depression Clinical and Research Program
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Aug 2008
Primary completion: 28 Feb 2013
Completion: 28 Feb 2013
Last update posted: 13 May 2013
Registered enrollment: 35
Registry id: NCT00812227

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