TY - JOUR
T1 - Brain imaging predictors and the international study to predict optimized treatment for depression
T2 - Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
AU - Grieve, Stuart M.
AU - Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S.
AU - Etkin, Amit
AU - Harris, Anthony
AU - Koslow, Stephen H.
AU - Wisniewski, Stephen
AU - Schatzberg, Alan F.
AU - Nemeroff, Charles B.
AU - Gordon, Evian
AU - Williams, Leanne M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge Brain Resource as the sponsor for the iSPOT-D study (NCT00693849). Claire Day (Global Study Co-ordinator) is thanked for her pivotal role in making this study happen, and for her boundless enthusiasm and energy. We thank the iSPOT-D Executive Committee for their valuable input into this manuscript and into the study overall (Members: A John Rush (Chair), Lea Williams (Academic PI), Steve Koslow, AmitEtkin, Evian Gordon, Steve Koslow, Stephen R Wisniewski. We also thank those responsible for designing the iSPOT-D protocol (A. John Rush, Lea M Williams, Evian Gordon, Charles B Nemeroff, Alan F Schatzberg). We gratefully acknowledge the editorial support of Jon Kilner, MS, MA (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). SMG acknowledges the support of the Sydney University Medical Foundation. Dr Lavier Gomes, Ms Sheryl Foster and the Department of Radiology at Westmead are thanked for their substantial contributions to MRI data acquisition.
PY - 2013/7/18
Y1 - 2013/7/18
N2 - Background: Approximately 50% of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not respond optimally to antidepressant treatments. Given this is a large proportion of the patient population, pretreatment tests that predict which patients will respond to which types of treatment could save time, money and patient burden. Brain imaging offers a means to identify treatment predictors that are grounded in the neurobiology of the treatment and the pathophysiology of MDD.Methods/Design: The international Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression is a multi-center, parallel model, randomized clinical trial with an embedded imaging sub-study to identify such predictors. We focus on brain circuits implicated in major depressive disorder and its treatment. In the full trial, depressed participants are randomized to receive escitalopram, sertraline or venlafaxine-XR (open-label). They are assessed using standardized multiple clinical, cognitive-emotional behavioral, electroencephalographic and genetic measures at baseline and at eight weeks post-treatment. Overall, 2,016 depressed participants (18 to 65 years old) will enter the study, of whom a target of 10% will be recruited into the brain imaging sub-study (approximately 67 participants in each treatment arm) and 67 controls. The imaging sub-study is conducted at the University of Sydney and at Stanford University. Structural studies include high-resolution three-dimensional T1-weighted, diffusion tensor and T2/Proton Density scans. Functional studies include standardized functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with three cognitive tasks (auditory oddball, a continuous performance task, and Go-NoGo) and two emotion tasks (unmasked conscious and masked non-conscious emotion processing tasks). After eight weeks of treatment, the functional MRI is repeated with the above tasks. We will establish the methods in the first 30 patients. Then we will identify predictors in the first half (n = 102), test the findings in the second half, and then extend the analyses to the total sample.Trial registration: International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment - in Depression (iSPOT-D). ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00693849.
AB - Background: Approximately 50% of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not respond optimally to antidepressant treatments. Given this is a large proportion of the patient population, pretreatment tests that predict which patients will respond to which types of treatment could save time, money and patient burden. Brain imaging offers a means to identify treatment predictors that are grounded in the neurobiology of the treatment and the pathophysiology of MDD.Methods/Design: The international Study to Predict Optimized Treatment in Depression is a multi-center, parallel model, randomized clinical trial with an embedded imaging sub-study to identify such predictors. We focus on brain circuits implicated in major depressive disorder and its treatment. In the full trial, depressed participants are randomized to receive escitalopram, sertraline or venlafaxine-XR (open-label). They are assessed using standardized multiple clinical, cognitive-emotional behavioral, electroencephalographic and genetic measures at baseline and at eight weeks post-treatment. Overall, 2,016 depressed participants (18 to 65 years old) will enter the study, of whom a target of 10% will be recruited into the brain imaging sub-study (approximately 67 participants in each treatment arm) and 67 controls. The imaging sub-study is conducted at the University of Sydney and at Stanford University. Structural studies include high-resolution three-dimensional T1-weighted, diffusion tensor and T2/Proton Density scans. Functional studies include standardized functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with three cognitive tasks (auditory oddball, a continuous performance task, and Go-NoGo) and two emotion tasks (unmasked conscious and masked non-conscious emotion processing tasks). After eight weeks of treatment, the functional MRI is repeated with the above tasks. We will establish the methods in the first 30 patients. Then we will identify predictors in the first half (n = 102), test the findings in the second half, and then extend the analyses to the total sample.Trial registration: International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment - in Depression (iSPOT-D). ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00693849.
KW - Antidepressant treatments
KW - Biomarker
KW - Imaging
KW - iSPOT-D
KW - Major depressive disorder
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U2 - 10.1186/1745-6215-14-224
DO - 10.1186/1745-6215-14-224
M3 - Article
C2 - 23866851
AN - SCOPUS:84880182326
VL - 14
JO - Trials
JF - Trials
SN - 1745-6215
IS - 1
M1 - 224
ER -