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Mechanisms of Antidepressant Non-Response in Late-Life Depression

30. juni 2020 opdateret af: Bret Rutherford, New York State Psychiatric Institute
This project seeks to elucidate the mechanisms by which antidepressant medications have limited efficacy in Late Life Depression (LLD) in order to develop new treatment interventions for this prevalent and disabling illness. Investigators hypothesize that the presence of executive dysfunction (ED),which is common in depressed adults over 60, impairs the ability to form appropriate expectancies of improvement with antidepressant treatment. Greater expectancy has been shown to improve antidepressant treatment outcome and is hypothesized to be a primary mechanism of placebo effects. Moreover, white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are more prevalent in patients with LLD compared to healthy controls. It has been argued that WMH contribute to the pathogenesis of LLD with ED and decrease the efficacy of antidepressant medications by disrupting connections between prefrontal cortical (PFC) and subcortical structures. Vascular lesions to white matter tracts may also compromise the pathway by which expectancy-based placebo effects influence depressive symptoms. Expectancies reflect activation in PFC areas that may improve depressive symptoms by modulating the activity of subcortical regions subserving negative affective systems (i.e., amygdala) as well as those important in reward and hedonic capacity (nucleus accumbens and ventral striatum). Thus, LLD patients with ED and WMH may sustain a "double-hit" to their ability to experience placebo effects in antidepressant treatments: ED diminishes the ability to generate appropriate treatment expectancies, while WMH disrupt the physiologic pathways by which expectancies lead to improvement in depressive symptoms.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Detaljeret beskrivelse

To determine whether decreased antidepressant medication response in LLD patients with ED and WMH is caused by a loss of expectancy effects, Investigators will evaluate 130 outpatients with LLD at baseline to determine their degree of ED (interference score on Stroop Color-Word Test), WMH burden (severity score on Fazekas modified Coffey Rating Scale derived from anatomical MRI), and white matter tract integrity (using diffusion tensor imaging [DTI]). Building on work from the investigators K23 Award, the investigator will manipulate participants' expectancy of improvement in an 8-week duration antidepressant trial by randomizing patients between open administration of escitalopram (i.e., high expectancy) and placebo-controlled administration of escitalopram (i.e., low expectancy). The difference in antidepressant response observed between open and placebo-controlled medication treatment is a measure of the expectancy contribution to outcome, which is substantial in younger depressed adults but investigators hypothesize this will be diminished in LLD patients with ED and WMH.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

138

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

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Studiesteder

    • New York
      • New York, New York, Forenede Stater, 10032
        • New York State Psychiatric Institute

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

60 år til 90 år (Voksen, Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Men and women aged 60-90 years
  • Diagnosis with nonpsychotic Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV MDD
  • 24-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) score ≥ 16
  • Willing to and capable of providing informed consent and complying with study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current comorbid Axis I DSM IV disorder other than Nicotine Dependence, Adjustment Disorder, or Anxiety Disorder
  • diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence (excluding Nicotine Dependence) within the past 12 months
  • History of psychosis, psychotic disorder, mania, or bipolar disorder
  • Diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Dementia, or Parkinson's Disease
  • MMSE < 24
  • HRSD suicide item > 2 or Clinical Global Impressions (CGI)-Severity score of 7 at baseline
  • history of allergic or adverse reaction to escitalopram, or non-response to adequate trial of escitalopram (at least 4 weeks at dose of 20mg) during the current episode
  • current treatment with psychotherapy, antidepressants, antipsychotics, or mood stabilizers
  • having contraindication to MRI scanning (such as metal in body) or unable to tolerate the scanning procedures (i.e., severe obesity, claustrophobia)
  • acute, severe, or unstable medical or neurological illness

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Behandling
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Firedobbelt

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Placebo komparator: Double Blind-Placebo
Blinded treatment with placebo, one pill a day. If after the 4 weeks, the patient has not remitted, they will be increased to 2 pills a day.
Inert substance or treatment which is designed to have no therapeutic value but resemble the active medication in this study
Andre navne:
  • placebo
Aktiv komparator: Double Blind-Escitalopram
Blinded treatment with either escitalopram 10mg, increased to escitalopram 20mg at week 4 if depression has not remitted.
Escitalopram is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. It is FDA approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults and children over 12 years of age.
Andre navne:
  • Lexapro
Aktiv komparator: Open Treatment with Escitalopram
Open treatment with 10mg of escitalopram, increased to 20mg if depression has not remitted at week 4.
Escitalopram is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. It is FDA approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults and children over 12 years of age.
Andre navne:
  • Lexapro

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD)
Tidsramme: Baseline
Vores mål er depressiv symptomatologi målt ved Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD). HRSD er et spørgeskema med 24 punkter, der bruges som en indikation på depression og en guide til at evaluere helbredelse. Samlet score spænder fra 0-74, ikke medregnet atypiske symptomer sub-skalaen. En score på 16 eller derover anses typisk for at indikere tilstedeværelsen af ​​depressive symptomer. Højere score indikerer større sværhedsgrad.
Baseline

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD)
Tidsramme: Week 8
Our target is depressive symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD). The HRSD is a 24-item questionnaire used as an indication of depression and a guide to evaluate recovery. Total scores range from 0-74, not including atypical symptoms sub-scale. A score of 16 or above is typically considered to indicate the presence of depressive symptoms. Higher scores indicate greater severity.
Week 8
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms (QIDS-SR)
Tidsramme: Baseline
QIDS-SR is a 16 item scale self-report form that was used to measure depression outcomes. This self-report is valuable in this study, because it is less susceptible to clinician and rater bias. The QIDS-SR has been increasingly used in antidepressant studies due to its equivalent weightings for each symptom item, clearly understandable anchor points, and inclusion of all DSM criteria for depression. The scores range from 0-27 with 27 being worse depressive symptoms.
Baseline
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms (QIDS-SR)
Tidsramme: Week 8
QIDS-SR is a 16 item scale self-report form that was used to measure depression outcomes. This self-report is valuable in this study, because it is less susceptible to clinician and rater bias. The QIDS-SR has been increasingly used in antidepressant studies due to its equivalent weightings for each symptom item, clearly understandable anchor points, and inclusion of all DSM criteria for depression. The scores range from 0-27 with 27 being worse depressive symptoms.
Week 8
Credibility and Expectancy Scale-Better (CES)
Tidsramme: Pre-Baseline
CES is an 8 item scale in which subjects rate their impression of the credibility of the treatment and how they estimate their expectation of improvement. The CES is the most widely used measure of expectancy and has demonstrated good psychometric properties in multiple studies. Question 2 ('Better') asks the patient the chances of their depression being completely better at the end of this study, from 1 = very poor to 7 = very good. The higher the number, the higher the expectancy that they will be better.
Pre-Baseline
Credibility and Expectancy Scale-Better (CES)
Tidsramme: Week 0
CES is an 8 item scale in which subjects rate their impression of the credibility of the treatment and how they estimate their expectation of improvement. The CES is the most widely used measure of expectancy and has demonstrated good psychometric properties in multiple studies. Question 2 ('Better') asks the patient the chances of their depression being completely better at the end of this study, from 1 = very poor to 7 = very good. The higher the number, the higher the expectancy that they will be better.
Week 0
Credibility and Expectancy Scale-Depression
Tidsramme: Pre-baseline
CES is an 8 item scale in which subjects rate their impression of the credibility of the treatment and how they estimate their expectation of improvement. The CES is the most widely used measure of expectancy and has demonstrated good psychometric properties in multiple studies. CES question 3 ('Depression') asks how the patient's depression will be at the end of the study, compared with now, from 1 = much worse to 7= much better. The higher the number, the higher the expectancy that their depression will be much better.
Pre-baseline
Credibility and Expectancy Scale-Depression
Tidsramme: Week 0
CES is an 8 item scale in which subjects rate their impression of the credibility of the treatment and how they estimate their expectation of improvement. The CES is the most widely used measure of expectancy and has demonstrated good psychometric properties in multiple studies. CES question 3 ('Depression') asks how the patient's depression will be at the end of the study, compared with now, from 1 = much worse to 7= much better. The higher the number, the higher the expectancy that their depression will be much better.
Week 0
Quick Inventory of Depression Scale (QIDS-SR): Expectancy
Tidsramme: Pre-Baseline
This 16-items assessment is used to rate the 9 criterion symptom domains of a major depressive episode: 4 items are used to rate sleep disturbance (early, middle, and late insomnia plus hypersomnia); 2 items are used to rate psychomotor disturbance (agitation and retardation); 4 items are used to rate appetite/weight disturbance (appetite increase or decrease and weight increase or decrease). Only 1 item is used to rate the remaining 6 domains (depressed mood, decreased interest, decreased energy, worthlessness/guilt, concentration/decision making, and suicidal ideation). Each item is rated 0-3. For symptom domains that require more than 1 item, the highest score of the item relevant for each domain is taken. The total score ranges from 0-27. A lower rating indicates higher expectancy of improvement and lower expectation of depressive symptomatology, and a higher rating indicates lower expectancy of improvement, higher expectation of depression.
Pre-Baseline
Quick Inventory of Depression Scale (QIDS-SR): Expectancy
Tidsramme: Week 0
This 16-items assessment is used to rate the 9 criterion symptom domains of a major depressive episode: 4 items are used to rate sleep disturbance (early, middle, and late insomnia plus hypersomnia); 2 items are used to rate psychomotor disturbance (agitation and retardation); 4 items are used to rate appetite/weight disturbance (appetite increase or decrease and weight increase or decrease). Only 1 item is used to rate the remaining 6 domains (depressed mood, decreased interest, decreased energy, worthlessness/guilt, concentration/decision making, and suicidal ideation). Each item is rated 0-3. For symptom domains that require more than 1 item, the highest score of the item relevant for each domain is taken. The total score ranges from 0-27. A lower rating indicates higher expectancy of improvement and lower expectation of depressive symptomatology, and a higher rating indicates lower expectancy of improvement, higher expectation of depression.
Week 0
Executive Dysfunction: Stroop Color Word
Tidsramme: Pre-Baseline
Stroop Color Word test asks patients to name the color of a word rather than reading the word. Stroop Color Word is how many colors they can name in 45 sec (higher is better, e.g., less executive dysfunction).
Pre-Baseline
Executive Dysfunction: Stroop Interference
Tidsramme: Pre-Baseline
The Stroop is a measure of inhibition under distracting conditions that is sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction. in Stroop Color Word test patients are to name the color of a word rather than reading the word. Stroop Color Word is how many colors they can name in 45 sec (higher is better, e.g., less executive dysfunction). Stroop Interference is this score adjusted for age and education.
Pre-Baseline
White Matter Hyperintensity (WMH) Outcome- Total WMH
Tidsramme: Pre-Baseline
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the Brain was acquired. We rated the severity of WMH on axial T2 FLAIR images using the Fazekas modified Coffey Rating Scale. Deep WMH are scored as 0 (absent), 1 (punctate foci), 2 (beginning confluence of foci), and 3 (large confluent areas); subcortical gray matter HIs (basal ganglia) are scored as 0 (absent), 1 (punctate), 2 (multipunctate), and 3 (diffuse); periventricular HIs are scored as 0 (absent), 1 (caps), 2 (smooth halo), and 3 (irregular and extending into the deep white matter). Our primary measure of WMH burden will be DWMH score, which has been used to establish the only empirically validated diagnostic criteria for vascular depression, where scores of 0-1 were normal, but 2-3 indicated WHM.
Pre-Baseline

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Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Faktiske)

19. februar 2014

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

17. januar 2019

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

17. januar 2020

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

26. august 2013

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

26. august 2013

Først opslået (Skøn)

29. august 2013

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

2. juli 2020

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

30. juni 2020

Sidst verificeret

1. juni 2020

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