Functional MRI of Relaxation Response Training in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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Conditions studied: ADHD

In brief

This research study is being done to examine how meditation and the relaxation response (RR) may change brain activity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01404273

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

12

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-07-31

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 49. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or female adults (ages 18 - 49).
• Patients with the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), by the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), as manifested in clinical evaluation and confirmed by structured interview.

You may not qualify if…

• Any current, non-ADHD Axis I psychiatric conditions
• Baseline Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) > 19.
• Any clinically significant chronic medical condition.
• Mental retardation
• Organic brain disorders
• Seizures or tics.
• Pregnant or nursing females.
• Clinically unstable psychiatric conditions (suicidal behaviors, psychosis).
• Current or recent (within the past 2 years) substance abuse or dependence.
• Patients currently or recently (within past 1 month) on psychotropic medication.
• Subjects with current or prior adequate psychopharmacologic treatment for ADHD.
• Regular practice of an Relaxation Response-inducing technique within the past year
• History of claustrophobia or any of the standard contraindications to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning(metal objects within body).

Where it is running

• Benson-Henry Institute, 151 Merrimac St, 4th Floor — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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