Status:

UNKNOWN

Bright Light Therapy in the Treatment of Non-seasonal Bipolar Depression

Lead Sponsor:

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Conditions:

Bipolar Depression

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE1

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe brain disorder characterized by the recurrence of mood episodes. Depressive episodes in BD are frequently refractory and clinicians have few treatment options. Bright...

Detailed Description

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe brain disorder characterized by the recurrence of mood episodes. Patients presenting with BD spend more time with depressive symptoms than with manic ones, which have...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients must be aged from 18 to 55 year-old.
  • Patients must read and understand French language, and must provide written informed consent.
  • Patients must be inpatients or outpatients followed in psychiatry for a major depressive episodes.
  • Patients must have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, type I or II, according to the DSM-5 and determined by a SCID.
  • Patients must have a major depressive episode, at least of moderate intensity, according to the DSM-5, with a MADRS total score ≥20 and determined by a SCID.
  • Patients must have a mood stabilizer since at least 4 weeks at standard dosage (lithium, or sodium valproate, or second generation antipsychotics such as quetiapine, aripiprazole, olanzapine).
  • Female patients must be using a medically accepted means of contraception.
  • Patients must be affiliated to the social security scheme.

Exclusion

  • Patients under guardianship or deprivation of liberty by administrative or judicial decision
  • Seasonal pattern of major depressive episode according to DSM-5 criteria.
  • Psychotic, mixed, or catatonic characteristics according to DSM-5 criteria
  • High suicidal risk assessed by the Columbia Scale of Suicide Risk Severity (C-SSRS)
  • Not stabilized comorbidities (addictive disorders according to the DSM-5 criteria or other decompensated general medical cause).
  • Ophthalmic pathology (cataract, macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa) and diseases affecting the retina (retinopathy, diabetes, herpes, etc.).
  • Photosensitive treatment, including the following treatments:
  • Cyclins (Vibramycin®, Doxycycline®)
  • Amiodarone (Cordarone®, Amiodarone®)
  • Phenothiazines (Largactil®, Modecate®, Nozinan®, Melleril®, Trilafon®)
  • Methotrexate (Methotrexate®)
  • Sulfamides (antibiotics, diuretics or hypoglycemic agents)
  • Chloroquine (Nivaquine®)
  • Some anti-inflammatories (Apranax®, Indocid®)
  • Psoralens used in puvatherapy
  • Isotretinoin (Roaccutane® and generics)
  • Verteporfin (Visudyne®).
  • Lactating or pregnant women (pregnancy urine positive test).
  • Subjects who have already used light therapy in the last 6 months.
  • Therapeutic resistance of the current major depressive episode (≥2 traditional antidepressants such as SSRI, IRSNA, MAOI or tricyclic, at effective therapeutic dosage for more than 6 weeks)
  • Use of another antidepressant strategy than the mood stabilizer, including antidepressants of all classes (which will have to be stopped before the initiation of light therapy) and psychotherapy with onset \<1 month.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 30 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

January 1 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

45 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03396744

Start Date

September 30 2019

End Date

January 1 2021

Last Update

February 10 2020

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Fenand Widal hospital

Paris, France, 75010