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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 21 May 2018
Main ID:  ISRCTN75872983
Date of registration: 04/08/2011
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier (France)
Public title: Evaluation of the effect of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotions and motivation in healthy male and female volunteers
Scientific title: Evaluation of the effect of agomelatine and escitalopram on emotions and motivation in healthy male and female volunteers
Date of first enrolment: 01/10/2011
Target sample size: 128
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN75872983
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled multicentric study (Treatment)  
Phase:  Not Applicable
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
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Name: Guy    Goodwin
Address:  University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry Warneford Hospital Headington OX3 7JX Oxford United Kingdom
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Healthy male and female volunteers aged between 18 and 45 years (both inclusive)
2. A Body index (BMI) between 18.0 and 30.0 (both inclusive)
3. Ability and/or willingness to undergo psychological test battery, motivation test battery and self-rating questionnaires or clinician-rated questionnaires including sexual activity questionnaire
4. Speaks fluent English
5. Negative urine pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential at inclusion
6. Using consistently and correctly method of birth control such as implants, injectables, oral contraceptives, some intra-uterine device or surgical sterilization
7. Negative drug abuse and breath ethanol test

Exclusion criteria: 1. Any surgical procedure since the selection visit
2. Intake of any medication (except paracetamol at the dose of 1.5g/day and oral contraceptives) since the selection visit
3. Previous experience of Emotional Test Battery


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Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Major Depressive Disorder
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
Intervention(s)
1. A randomised, double-blind study with parallel group of therapeutic oral doses of agomelatine and escitalopram
2. 9 weeks treatment period and 1 week of follow-up period
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Emotional blunting will be assessed by using the Oxford Depression Questionnaire (ODQ) at week 0/ week 2/ week 8 and end of study
2. Emotional processing: Facial expression recognition task/Emotional categorisation task/the faces dot-probe task/Emotional memory free recall task/Emotional memory forced recognition task at week 1 and week 8
3. Motivation: Sensitivity to reward and punishment task/Motivation and effort duration task/ Gait speed task/Motivation score at week 0/ week 1/ week 2 and week 8
Secondary Outcome(s)
No secondary outcome measures
Secondary ID(s)
CL1-20098-081
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier (France)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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Ethics approval was obtained before recruitment of the first participants
Results
Results available: Yes
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Date Completed: 31/05/2013
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