Schizophrenia clinical trials, in English

Some people who have what doctors currently call schizophrenia or bipolar disease may actually have a brain disease caused by auto-antibodies. Auto-antibodies are produced when the normal defense mechanism of the body goes wrong and begins to attack the body, similar to "friendly fire." Auto-antibodies attack brain receptors and then the person who has this problem begins to have hallucinations and other manifestations of schizophrenia, like feeling that people can see what they are thinking and also feeling that other people do not like them.

NCT03971487 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

Previous studies found that some NMDA-enhancing agents were able to improve clinical symptoms of patients with schizophrenia. In addition, several drugs with antioxidant properties have been tested in clinical trials for the treatment of schizophrenia too.

NCT04959201 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · China Medical University Hospital

This is a single-site, sham-controlled, randomly assigned trial in a total of 40 subjects between ages 18 and 60 years with schizophrenia. This study will investigate the effects of 4-week rTMS treatment on brain and cognitive functions in patients.

NCT05389787 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Northwell Health

Psychotic disorders are associated with high levels of distress, limitations in quality of life, and a high risk of chronification for those affected. The treatment guidelines recommend combining the pharmacological treatment with psychotherapeutic methods, starting already in the acute phase.

NCT05911529 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich

Cognitive impairment, the core psychopathology of schizophrenia, usually persists in schizophrenia patients even during symptomatic remission. While cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS) is an important therapeutic target, hypofunction of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) is a key factor of CIAS.

NCT06021197 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · China Medical University Hospital

This study aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of a brief behavioral intervention that combines two treatments, Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), that have been shown to work in prior research studies. The format of the intervention will be a combination of in-person sessions and remote elements delivered via mobile phone (together called MI-CBTech).

NCT06138054 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · VA Office of Research and Development

This is a multicenter, global, 26-week, open-label study to assess the whether it is safe and how hard side effects are to live with of lumateperone in pediatric patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or autism spectrum disorder.

NCT06229210 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.

Hallucinations or delusions that occur for the first time in older people with no acute medical problems or mood symptoms may be related to impending dementia. This study aims to confirm this hypothesis using novel blood biomarkers and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging tracers, as well as non-invasive testing.

NCT06336382 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Jeremy Koppel

This is a multicenter, randomly assigned, neither you nor the study doctors know who gets the real treatment, compared with a dummy treatment study in pediatric patients who are experiencing major depressive episodes (MDEs) associated with a primary diagnosis of bipolar I or bipolar II disorder as confirmed by Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL), according to criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM 5).

NCT06372964 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.

This trial aims to assess the clinical effects and tolerability of Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia (RS).

NCT06672588 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

This study wants to measure the how well it works and safety of KarXT in acutely psychotic Japanese adult participants with schizophrenia

NCT06882785 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Bristol-Myers Squibb

This study wants to understand how different types of community-based mental health care affect thinking abilities, daily functioning, and brain activity in adults with schizophrenia and related conditions. The investigators are especially interested in learning whether the Clubhouse Model-a structured, supportive community for individuals with mental illness-has unique benefits compared to standard outpatient mental health services.

NCT07006935 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Case Western Reserve University

Psychotic disorders impact 4.6 people per 1000 globally, with approximately 1.5 million Canadians affected. The age of onset for psychotic disorders often begin during the critical years of youth and early adulthood, resulting in significant challenges for individuals and their families, including difficulties with thinking, relationships, and overall well-being.

NCT07056894 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Nova Scotia Health Authority

The study will investigate how a history of emotional childhood maltreatment (CM) is associated with different aspects of psychological (social behaviour, empathy) and biological (brain function and structure, inflammation) health. In fact, CM is a risk factor for many mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and autism.

NCT07101107 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Medical University Innsbruck

This study wants to characterize the effect of KarXT on voiding dynamics and urological safety in participants with DSM-5 schizophrenia.

NCT07221877 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Bristol-Myers Squibb

This study wants to describe real-world treatment patterns, effectiveness and side effects of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia that have initiated xanomeline and trospium chloride (KarXT) treatment in the United States

NCT07379827 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Bristol-Myers Squibb

The aim of this clinical trial is to investigate the effects of a three-week virtual reality-based cognitive remediation training (VR-CRT) programme in combination with daily intake of a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) sodium butyrate on cognition in symptomatically stable patients with mood (depression or bipolar disorder; MD) or schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The investigators hypothesize that the VR-based cognitive remediation training (VR-CRT) combined with HDACi butyrate vs.

NCT07404085 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Mental Health Centre Copenhagen, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital

This study wants to measure the long-term whether it is safe and how hard side effects are to live with of Xanomeline and Trospium Chloride for the treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents

NCT07424404 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Karuna Therapeutics, Inc., a Bristol Myers Squibb company

This study is a confirmatory, neither you nor the study doctors know who gets the real treatment, compared with a dummy treatment randomly assigned clinical trial (RCT) testing whether gamma EEG neurofeedback (EEG-NFB) improves working memory in adults with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either active gamma EEG-NFB (real-time feedback of frontal gamma brain activity) or sham EEG-NFB (false pre-recorded feedback), twice weekly for 12 weeks.

NCT07592169 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · University of California, San Diego

This study wants to see how feasible it is to enroll participants with schizophrenia and for them to complete the study/assessments. It will also assess how safe and tolerable aticaprant is when compared with dummy treatment (placebo) in participants with schizophrenia.

NCT07615426 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Janssen Research & Development, LLC

The main objective of this Phase 2 study is to assess the how well it works of ublituximab as measured by Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total score in participants with schizophrenia.

NCT07680946 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · TG Therapeutics, Inc.

The purpose of the study is to measure the relapse prevention of KarXT in the treatment of participants with Schizophrenia

NCT07686263 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Karuna Therapeutics, Inc., a Bristol Myers Squibb company

This study is a randomly assigned, you will not be told which treatment you get, sham-controlled crossover trial enrolling 30 schizophrenia patients, each receiving one active and one sham tACS session (7-day washout), targeting P3/P4 at individual alpha frequency (2mA, 30min) during a working memory task, with accuracy and reaction time as primary outcomes, alongside EEG and neurophysiological measures, to test the how well it works and mechanisms of individualized alpha-tACS on working memory.

NCT07701343 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Central South University

This study wants to compare the effect of a brief family-based psychosocial intervention that addresses modifiable SSD risk factors on persistent and distressing psychotic-like experiences in children and young adults with a family history of SSD and high versus low baseline SSD-like brain patterns

NCT07743645 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

Antipsychotic-induced metabolic disturbances, especially weight gain, are common in patients with schizophrenia. There are no hitherto effective treatments for reducing antipsychotic-induced weight gain.

NCT07795554 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

Antipsychotic-induced metabolic disturbances, especially weight gain, are common in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, it is reported significant changes in food intake happened in patients with weight gain after intaking antipsychotics.

NCT07805980 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

In Study 1, investigators will test the ability of each of the seven paradigms to differentiate between schizophrenia (SZ)/schizoaffective disorder (SZA) and matched healthy control subjects (HC) and to predict individual differences in clinical measures of hallucinations and delusions (as well as measures of function). Investigators will also directly compare the tasks in terms of predictive ability and psychometric properties and determine whether the tasks share variance or explain unique variance.

NCT07853807 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Washington University School of Medicine

The goal of this watch-and-measure (no experimental treatment required) study is to measure the quality of life, drug safety and therapy compliance of schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder patients during the treatment with quetiapine this drug alone or in combination with another antipsychotic/antipsychotics. The main outcome measures are: * quality of life using the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL) * safety through the monitoring of the incidence of possible adverse drug events by the researcher, with the assessment of the association between the administration of the drug and the occurrence of an adverse reaction * therapy adherence using the Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS).

NCT07858565 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Bosnalijek D.D

The goal of this study is to learn whether people living with severe psychiatric disorders can be grouped into more homogeneous subgroups, across usual diagnostic categories, based on two key dimensions: social withdrawal and anhedonia (reduced ability to feel pleasure). The study includes adolescents and adults aged 15 to 60 with schizophrenia, a first psychotic episode, bipolar disorder, recurrent or treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, or autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability, as well as healthy volunteers aged 18 to 60.

NCT07881016 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Fondation FondaMental

In Study 3, all tasks and models from Aim 1 will be evaluated in a large community sample of online participants recruited through Prolific. Aim 3 will establish 1) requirements for testing computational algorithms in population-based samples, 2) whether task length is optimal, and 3) whether computational parameters help predict psychopathology (hallucinations and delusions in particular) in the general population, and how these predictors may be impacted by demographic variables, such as race, ethnicity, gender, age and other social determinants of health.

NCT07900893 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Washington University School of Medicine

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, can help reduce persistent auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices) in adults with psychotic disorders who have not responded adequately to antipsychotic medications. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does theta-burst stimulation reduce the severity of auditory verbal hallucinations?

NCT07902518 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal

This study is designed to assess the whether it is safe and how hard side effects are to live with of the effects of XEP527, with particular emphasis on disease status and its compatibility with the standard of care in patients with stable schizophrenia.

NCT07908680 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Novartis Pharmaceuticals

The goal of this study is to optimize treatment strategies for Chinese patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS). It will compare two types of treatment: 1.

NCT07918222 · Official ClinicalTrials.gov record · Shanghai Mental Health Center