Piloting a Novel, Mobile Cognitive Training Tool for Patients With Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Major Depressive Disorder

In brief

To assess the efficacy of a mobile-device-deployed cognitive emotional treatment for depression (Moodify) versus an active control treatment (commercially available computer games).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02922556

Run by

Posit Science Corporation

People needed

28

Starts

2015-09-01

Expected to finish

2019-06-21

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants must 18 to 85 years or older and not pregnant
• Participants must be fluent in English
• Participants must be able to engage with computerized cognitive tasks as required in order to participate in this study.
• Normal vision (or corrected to normal vision)
• Participants must be willing to commit to the time requirements of the study as evidenced by written, informed consent.
• Participants must meet diagnostic criteria for MDD

You may not qualify if…

• Participants report or present a hand tremor that prevents the use of a computer mouse or keyboard
• Participants unable to perform neuropsychological evaluations
• Participants cannot comprehend or follow instructions
• Participants not capable of giving informed consent
• Participants who appear to be intoxicated or under the influence of a controlled substance
• Participants with a history of significant medical diseases or multiple neurological events of the head
• Participants with serious or unstable medical illness (e.g. cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, endocrine, neurologic disease)
• Participants with a history or current diagnosis to specific Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-IV psychiatric illness such as (but not limited to): organic mental disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, psychotic disorder Not Otherwise Specific, bipolar disorder, substance dependence and substance abuse
• Participants with a history of seizure disorder

Where it is running

• Posit Science Corporation — San Francisco, California, United States

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