Cognitive Recovery After Electroconvulsive Therapy and General Anesthesia

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Depression, Delirium, Seizures, Cognitive Disorders

In brief

This study is geared toward characterizing the recovery of brain activity and cognitive function following treatments of electroconvulsive therapy and ketamine general anesthesia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02761330

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

17

Starts

2016-04-01

Expected to finish

2019-09-11

Last updated by the study team

2021-06-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Treatment resistant depression requiring outpatient ECT
• Planned right unilateral ECT stimulation
• English speaking
• Able to provide written informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Known brain lesion or neurological illness that causes cognitive impairment
• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective disorder
• Blindness or deafness or motor impediments that may impair performance for cognitive testing battery
• Inadequate ECT seizure duration with etomidate

Where it is running

• Washington University School of Medicine — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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