Cellular Aging and Neurobiology of Depression Study
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
0000-00-00
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
We are conducting an eight week longitudinal study to learn if blood levels of certain
naturally occurring compounds and genetic markers differ between patients with depression
and healthy adults who are not depressed, and if any such differences relate to memory
performance, mood, and neurobiology.
We will do this by comparing the unmedicated depressed patients with matched healthy
controls at baseline and then following the depressed patients over the course of eight
weeks of standardized antidepressant treatment to gauge which baseline abnormalities
normalize over the course of treatment.
Phase:
Phase 4
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, San Francisco
Collaborators:
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Institutes of Health (NIH)