Protocol Number: 01-M-0192

Title:

Fluoxetine's Effects on Attention and Emotional Memory in Anxious and Depressed Youth and Adults

Number:

01-M-0192

Summary:

This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to learn how the brain functions in adolescents receiving fluoxetine (Prozac) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or interpersonal therapy (IPT) for anxiety or depression in children/adolescents.

All participants will receive interviews to assess how they are doing in general, including general mood, degree of nervousness and behavior. Each participant and one of his or her parents will be interviewed separately and together. Those electing the medication study will also receive a physical examination. Participants are asked to complete tasks involving problem-solving and memory that involve looking at pictures, remembering things, testing reaction times, and making simple choices.

Participants with anxiety or depression will first meet with a psychiatrist or psychologist for two weekly sessions of talk therapy. Those who remain anxious or depressed after these 2 weeks will have the 3 options based on their choice: 1) treatment with fluoxetine daily for 8 weeks 2) cognitive-behavioral therapy or interpersonal therapy (two kinds of talk therapy) once a week for 8 weeks 3) a random assignment (50% chance) to either placebo or fluoxetine for 8 weeks. During and after the 8 weeks of treatment, each participant will complete verbal and written symptom ratings. Blood samples will be drawn for laboratory tests before drug treatment and after it ends.

Those who have not improved by the end of the study will be offered other treatment for 1 to 3 months, and the clinicians will help with finding subsequent aftercare. Those who improve with treatment will continue therapy at NIH until an outside physician is able to assume responsibility for monitoring medication.

FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THIS STUDY CALL THE CORE PHONE NUMBER: 301-496-5645

Sponsoring Institute:

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Recruitment Detail

Type: Participants currently recruited/enrolled

Gender: Male & Female

Referral Letter Required: No

Population Exclusion(s): None

Eligibility Criteria:

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

ALL JUVENILE SUBJECTS:

Age: 8 - 17

Consent: can give consent/assent (Parents will provide consent; minors will provide assent)

IQ: all subjects will have IQ greater than 70 (Assessment relies on WASI)

SUBJECTS WITH AN ANXIETY DISORDER:

Diagnosis: Current Diagnosis of Social Phobia, Separation Anxiety, or Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Based on K-SADS)

Symptom Severity: Score greater than 9 on PARS (This score was used to enroll subjects in previous trial demonstrating efficacy of an SSRI in pediatric anxiety)

Clinical Impairment: CGAS less than 60

SUBJECTS WITH A MOOD DISORDER:

Diagnosis: Current Diagnosis of Major Depression (Based on K-SADS (juveniles) or SCID (adults))

Clinical Impairment: CGAS less than 60 (juveniles) GAS less than 70 (adults)

Symptom Severity: CDRS Score greater than 39 (juveniles) (This score was used to enroll subjects in previous trials demonstrating efficacy of an SSRI in pediatric depression)

ALL ADULT SUBJECTS:

Age: 20-40

Consent: can give consent/assent

IQ: all subjects will have IQ greater than 70. Assessment relies on WASI.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

ALL SUBJECTS:

Any serious medical condition or condition that interferes with fMRI scanning, and for patients electing medication, any condition that increases risk of SSRI treatment. All patients will have complete physical examination. Healthy volunteer participants will be medication-free and have no current serious medical conditions, based on a review of their medical history.

Pregnancy

Current use of any psychoactive substance; current suicidal ideation; current diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) of sufficient severity to require pharmacotherapy. These factors could complicate treatment with an SSRI. No subject on medication will be accepted into the trial. Subjects will not be taken off of medications to enter the trial.

Current diagnoses Tourette's Disorder, OCD, post-traumatic distress disorder, conduct disorder. These factors may be effected by SSRI treatment, influencing ability to detect effects on anxiety/depression

Past or current history of mania, psychosis, or pervasive developmental disorder. These factors may be effected by SSRI treatment, influencing ability to detect effects on anxiety/depression

Recent use of an SSRI; all subjects must have been free of any SSRI-use for at least one month (fluoxetine six months) and must not have been treated with an SSRI for their current depressive episode. This is designed to exclude subjects who have failed a trial of an SSRI for their current episode of major depression.

ALL ADULT SUBJECTS:

Any current psychiatric diagnosis. Assessment relies on SCID.

SUBJECTS WITH AN ANXIETY DISORDER:

Current Major Depressive Disorder

Special Instructions:

Call the CORE phone number for more information: 301-496-5645

Keywords:

fMRI

SSRI

Neuropsychological

Evaluative Learning

Adolescent

Normal Volunteers

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

CBT

IPT

Anxiety

Recruitment Keyword(s):

Adolescent

Anxiety Disorder

Mood Disorder

Depression

Healthy Volunteer

Normal Control

Condition(s):

Depression

Mood Disorder

Anxiety Disorder

Healthy

Investigational Drug(s):

None

Investigational Device(s):

None

Intervention(s):

None

Supporting Site:

National Institute of Mental Health

Contact(s):

Allison M. Detloff
National Institutes of Health
Building 9
Room B1E04
9 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Phone: (301) 451-6817
Fax: Not Listed
Electronic Address: detloffa@mail.nih.gov

Citation(s):

Vulnerability factors among children at risk for anxiety disorders

Behavioral inhibition in childood: a risk factor for anxiety disorders

The risk for early-adulthood anxiety and depressive disorders in adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders

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