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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT01134731
Date of registration: 20/05/2010
Primary sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Public title: Paliperidone and Lithium in the Treatment of Suicidality - Treatment Indication and Epigenetic Regulation AFSP
Scientific title: Paliperidone and Lithium in the Treatment of Suicidality - Treatment Indication and Epigenetic Regulation
Date of first enrolment: May 2010
Target sample size: 69
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01134731
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Roberta S May, MA
Address: 
Telephone: 205-934-2605
Email: bmay@uab.edu
Affiliation: 
Name:   Roberta S May, MA
Address: 
Telephone: 205-934-2605
Email: bmay@uab.edu
Affiliation: 
Name:   Richard C Shelton, M.D.
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  University of Alabama at Birmingham
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. 19-65 years of age

2. Diagnosis of major depressive disorder

3. Currently experiencing suicidal thoughts

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Depressed patients without suicidality

2. Patients with severe psychotic features or with primary diagnoses of bipolar
disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, substance abuse/dependence or
generalized anxiety

3. Subjects who have taken lithium or an antipsychotic in the last 2 weeks

4. pregnant women.



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Major Depressive Disorder
Suicidality
Intervention(s)
Drug: lithium
Drug: paliperidone
Drug: placebo
Primary Outcome(s)
Paliperidone and Lithium in the treatment of suicidality - treatment indication and epigenetic regulation [Time Frame: 12 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Paliperidone and Lithium in the treatment of suicidality - treatment indication and epigenetic regulation [Time Frame: 12 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
F100329001
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC
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