Olfactory and Visual Perception in Depressed Patients (PERODEP)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: image visualization; Behavioral: psychophysiological assessment; Behavioral: olfactory assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02857088

P/2011/126

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to determine the emotional reactivity of depressed patients to visual and olfactory stimuli in comparison with healthy volunteers.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• no cognitive impairment that could prevent instruction comprehension
• no more than 10 cigarettes/day
• signed informed consent
• group 1: current major depressive disorder
• group 2: no current major depressive disorder

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• visual impairment
• olfactory impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 2 patient groups

depressed patients

Experimental group

Description:

patient with a current unipolar major depressive disorder intervention: olfactory assessment, image visualization and psychophysiological assessment

Treatment:

Behavioral: image visualization

Behavioral: psychophysiological assessment

Behavioral: olfactory assessment

non depressed subject

Experimental group

Description:

subject without a current unipolar major depressive disorder intervention: olfactory assessment, image visualization and psychophysiological assessment

Treatment:

Behavioral: image visualization

Behavioral: psychophysiological assessment

Behavioral: olfactory assessment