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The Efficacy and Safety of Escitalopram for Depression in Multiple Sclerosis

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Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status and phase

Terminated
Phase 4

Conditions

Multiple Sclerosis
Depression

Treatments

Drug: escitalopram oxalate antidepressant

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
Industry

Identifiers

NCT00151294
LXP-MD 45
0410007546

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emotionally labile, depressed participants with multiple sclerosis treated with escitalopram will have a greater reduction in emotional lability scores and in their psychological distress scores than those who are randomized to receive placebo.

Full description

Patients with multiple sclerosis who are experiencing mood lability and symptoms of depression will be randomized to receive either escitalopram 10mg/day or placebo tablets for a period of 6 weeks. It is hypothesized that patients receiving medication will experience a greater normalization of their emotional instability and a greater reduction in their depressive symptoms at the end of the six-week trial than those who are not receiving medication.

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Clinical diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
  • Having mild to moderate depressive symptoms, with or without emotional lability
  • Experiencing psychological distress

Exclusion criteria

  • Meeting DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for Major Depressive Disorder or another Axis 1 diagnosis
  • Cognitive impairment
  • The presence of an unstable medical illness that might preclude completion of the study -

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

Trial contacts and locations

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