Current medical therapies for depression take weeks to achieve full efficacy, and are ineffective in many patients or cause intolerable side effects, emphasizing the need for a deeper understanding of depression and its treatment. Identifying early brain biomarkers of treatments responses seems necessary to improve antidepressant treatment outcome. In this study we aim to detect early brain responses to a fast acting antidepressant-like treatment administered intravenously during a Real-Time Neurofeedback functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Task to predict antidepressant treatment outcome in depression. At completion of the neuroimaging task, participants will enter a placebo-controlled clinical trial with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
Name: Placebo
Type: DrugPlacebo and Citalopram
Name: Citalopram
Type: DrugPlacebo and Citalopram
Name: Fast acting antidepressant-like treatment. administered i.v. during the fMRI scanning session
Description: Fast acting antidepressant-like treatment administered intravenously for 35 min. during the fMRI scanning session.Type: DrugPlacebo and Citalopram
Description: Affect processing: Emotional Words Task and Facial Emotion Perception test. Attention and Inhibitory Control: Parametric Go/NoGo, Trail Making test and the Stroop Color Word test . Inferential Reasoning (including cost-benefit analysis): Delayed Discounting of Money Rewards, Iowa Gambling Task, Common Difference effect gambling task and the WCST.
Measure: Neuropsychological functioning of patients with depression Time: At baselineDescription: 5ml of blood drawn per participants will be used for genotyping
Measure: BDNF Val66Met single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)genotyping Time: At baselineSingle Group Assignment
There is one SNP
Inferential Reasoning (including cost-benefit analysis): Delayed Discounting of Money Rewards, Iowa Gambling Task, Common Difference effect gambling task and the WCST.. BDNF Val66Met single nucleotide polymorphism(SNP)genotyping. --- Val66Met ---