Study of Brain Response to Emotional Pictures Using a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) While on Escitalopram

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Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2008
The purpose of this study is to find out what parts of the brain have increased or decreased activity when people are depressed and how antidepressant medicine changes this activity in depressed patients. The genetic samples collected are to look at variation in a gene (serotonin transporter gene), which affects the functioning of the chemical serotonin in the brain
Epistemonikos ID: 5c21aba95eb7ae52f35f2661d5295194ccc8acf9
First added on: May 05, 2024