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https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00202306
Registration number
NCT00202306
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Date submitted
14/09/2005
Date registered
20/09/2005
Date last updated
30/05/2013
Titles & IDs
Public title
Indicated Prevention of Psychotic Disorders With Low-dose Lithium
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An Open-labeled, Parallel-group, Single-blinded (Rater) Pilot Study to Investigate the Neuroprotective Effects of of Low-dose Lithium in Young Subjects at Ultra High Risk (UHR) of Developing a First-episode Psychotic Disorder
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E/01/028
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SMRI 01-038
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Psychosis and personality disorders
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Intervention/exposure
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Interventional
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Symptomatic improvement
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Cognitive improvement
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Transition rate to Psychosis
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Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Attenuated psychotic symptoms
* Self-limited brief psychotic episode
* Family History of psychosis and decrease in functioning over last year
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Both males and females
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Can healthy volunteers participate?
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Key exclusion criteria
* Organic causes of subthreshold psychotic symptoms (eg. epilepsy)
* More than one week of neuroleptic treatment
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Treatment
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Non-randomised trial
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Open (masking not used)
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Parallel
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Phase 4
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Recruitment
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Completed
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1/11/2001
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Recruitment in Australia
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VIC
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ORYGEN Youth Health, PACE Clinic - Parkville
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Melbourne Health
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Summary
Brief summary
This study investigates the neuroprotective properties of low-dose lithium in young individuals at ultra-high risk of developping a first psychotic episode. Fourty individuals having some symptoms of an emerging psychotic disorders (without meeting the threshold for a full-blown mental illness) will be treated with a low dose of lithium (about a third of the dose that is usually used to treat acute mania). We will assess the progression of the conditions of these individuals on a montly bases for a year. We will do behavioural, cognitive and imaging assessments prior start of the treatment, after three months and one year. We hope to demonstrate that low dose lithium will stop or even reverse the progression of disease. We expect that behavioral, cognitive and in vivo brain imaging parameters in those individuals treated with low dose lithium improve, compared to the monitoring group.
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Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00202306
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Trial related presentations / publications
Berger GE, Wood S, McGorry PD. Incipient neurovulnerability and neuroprotection in early psychosis. Psychopharmacol Bull. 2003 Spring;37(2):79-101.
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Gregor E Berger, MD
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University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry, ORYGEN Research Centre
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