Children: Depression
A Family Study, What Impacts Mood, Sleep, and Energy?
Enrolling locally from the Washington, D.C. metro region
This research study is enrolling people to help us understand how physical activity, daily rhythms, and light affect mental health.
Finding Causes and Treating Depression in Teenagers
Enrolling locally from the Washington, D.C. metro region
This research study seeks to find causes and treatments of depression in teenagers. The study goals are to increase our knowledge of treatments for depression and understand how the brain changes when teenagers have depression. The study will also compare teenagers with depression to those without mental health diagnoses.
Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Research
Enrolling locally from the Washington, D.C. metro region
This pediatric research study seeks to learn how the brain functions in children and adolescents with anxiety and/or depression. This study seeks boys and girls ages 8-17 to participate in research at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Research participation includes brain imaging and computer-based problem solving and memory tasks. Treatment is available over 12-weeks of outpatient visits. Parent and child must consent to participate.
TMS for Youth with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
Enrolling locally from the Washington, D.C. metro region
This research study seeks to learn more about a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) device to treat depression in youth.