Bipolar Research And Innovation Network - BRAIN

NCT ID: NCT00201526

Last Updated: 2025-12-12

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

3000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-01-31

Study Completion Date

2030-01-31

Brief Summary

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To describe the broad spectrum of Bipolar Disorder patients admitted to out-patient and in-patient psychiatric departments in Norway. Include all admitted Bipolar patients both with and without co-morbid disorders.

Detailed Description

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Norway is both social, genetically and culturally a homogeneous society. The health service is public and has a nearly total responsibility for psychiatric care in given catchment areas. This provides excellent opportunities to describe the frequencies and patterns of the broad spectrum of bipolar illness, including co-morbid substance use disorders, to follow the patients for several years and to do molecular genetic mapping.

Methods: Participating centers consist of outpatient clinics and hospital departments from different parts of Norway and one third-line clinic with referrals from all over Norway. Specifically trained clinicians in each center include bipolar patients systematically and perform the patient evaluation as part of their clinical duties. In addition, CT or MRI scans and EEG are performed and blood samples are collected for clinical chemistry screening and for DNA sampling.

Conditions

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Bipolar Disorder

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Study group

RCT

No interventions assigned to this group

Control group

RCT

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All admitted patients giving written consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients without competence for consent.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Gunnar Morken, PhD MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Locations

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Medical Faculty, Norwegian University of Science And Technology

Trondheim, , Norway

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Norway

Central Contacts

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Arne Vaaler, PhD MD

Role: CONTACT

+47 92090415

Gunnar Morken, PhD MD

Role: CONTACT

+47 72823034

Facility Contacts

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Gunnar Morken, MD PhD

Role: primary

+4772823034

References

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Kessler U, Vaaler AE, Schoyen H, Oedegaard KJ, Bergsholm P, Andreassen OA, Malt UF, Morken G. The study protocol of the Norwegian randomized controlled trial of electroconvulsive therapy in treatment resistant depression in bipolar disorder. BMC Psychiatry. 2010 Feb 23;10:16. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-16.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20178636 (View on PubMed)

Kessler U, Schoeyen HK, Andreassen OA, Eide GE, Hammar A, Malt UF, Oedegaard KJ, Morken G, Sundet K, Vaaler AE. Neurocognitive profiles in treatment-resistant bipolar I and bipolar II disorder depression. BMC Psychiatry. 2013 Apr 4;13:105. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-105.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23557429 (View on PubMed)

Kessler U, Schoeyen HK, Andreassen OA, Eide GE, Malt UF, Oedegaard KJ, Morken G, Sundet K, Vaaler AE. The effect of electroconvulsive therapy on neurocognitive function in treatment-resistant bipolar disorder depression. J Clin Psychiatry. 2014 Nov;75(11):e1306-13. doi: 10.4088/JCP.13m08960.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25470096 (View on PubMed)

Schoeyen HK, Kessler U, Andreassen OA, Auestad BH, Bergsholm P, Malt UF, Morken G, Oedegaard KJ, Vaaler A. Treatment-resistant bipolar depression: a randomized controlled trial of electroconvulsive therapy versus algorithm-based pharmacological treatment. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Jan;172(1):41-51. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.13111517. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25219389 (View on PubMed)

Bjoerke-Bertheussen J, Schoeyen H, Andreassen OA, Malt UF, Oedegaard KJ, Morken G, Sundet K, Vaaler AE, Auestad B, Kessler U. Right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy does not cause more cognitive impairment than pharmacologic treatment in treatment-resistant bipolar depression: A 6-month randomized controlled trial follow-up study. Bipolar Disord. 2018 Sep;20(6):531-538. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12594. Epub 2017 Dec 21.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 29267990 (View on PubMed)

Drange OK, Saether SG, Finseth PI, Morken G, Vaaler AE, Arntsen V, Henning O, Andreassen OA, Elvsashagen T, Malt UF, Boen E. Differences in course of illness between patients with bipolar II disorder with and without epileptiform discharges or other sharp activity on electroencephalograms: a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry. 2020 Dec 7;20(1):582. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-02968-4.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33287748 (View on PubMed)

Drange OK, Vaaler AE, Morken G, Andreassen OA, Malt UF, Finseth PI. Clinical characteristics of patients with bipolar disorder and premorbid traumatic brain injury: a cross-sectional study. Int J Bipolar Disord. 2018 Sep 10;6(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s40345-018-0128-6.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30198055 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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10671

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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