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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 6 May 2013
Main ID:  NCT00065923
Date of registration: 01/08/2003
Primary sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Public title: Treatment of Self-Injurious Behavior in Individuals With Prader-Willi Syndrome
Scientific title: Topiramate Effects on SIB in Prader-Willi Syndrome
Date of first enrolment: July 2002
Target sample size: 10
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00065923
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Nathan A. Shapira, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Florida
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

- PWS due to deletion of 15 q11-13 or uniparental disomy

- Actively engaging skin picking behavior

- Individual with PWS or legal guardian able to provide full informed consent. If
legal guardian gives informed consent, then individual with PWS will give his/her
assent.

- Acceptable methods of contraception

Exclusion Criteria

- Pregnant or breastfeeding

- Clinically significant suicidality or homicidality

- DSM-IV diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence within 6 months of study entry

- Cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, metabolic, endocrine, or
other systemic disease which could interfere with treatment or assessment of PWS

- Treatment with any drug which might interact adversely with topiramate

- Medication or significant behavioral management change within 4 weeks of study entry

- Personal history or a first-degree family history of nephrolithiasis



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 66 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Prader-Willi Syndrome
Self-Injurious Behavior
Intervention(s)
Drug: Topiramate
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
R03HD42818
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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