NCT04218539CompletedPhase 1
Repeat Dosing of Psilocybin in Migraine Headache
Repeat Dosing of Psilocybin in Headache Disorders
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Feb 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
In seeking to understand the capacity for psilocybin to reduce migraine headache burden, this study will investigate single and repeated dosing of psilocybin up to two doses. In seeking to identify an underlying mechanism in psilocybin's effects, neuroinflammatory markers for migraine headache will be measured.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 18 (actual)
- First submitted
- 20 Dec 2019
- Start date
- Aug 2021
- Primary completion date
- Nov 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Yale University
- Diseases
- Migraine
- NCT number
- NCT04218539
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1
- Participants enrolled: 18
- From Aug 2021 to the primary completion date, Nov 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Drug abuse within the past 3 months (excluding tobacco)
- Urine toxicology positive to drugs of abuse
- Use of alcohol in the week prior to the first test day
- Use of vasoconstrictive medications (i.e., sumatriptan, pseudoephedrine, midodrine) within 5 half-lives of test days
- Use of antidepressant medication (i.e., TCA, MAOI, SSRI) in the past 6 weeks
- Use of steroids or certain other immunomodulatory agents (i.e., azathioprine) in the past 2 weeks
- Use of migraine onabotulinum toxin (i.e., Botox) or monoclonal antibodies against CGRP or its receptor (i.e., erenumab) in the past month or while therapeutic effects are still present
Other illness
- Axis I psychotic or manic disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar I, depression with psychosis)
- Axis I psychotic or manic disorder in first degree relative
- Unstable medical condition; severe renal, cardiac, or hepatic disease; pacemaker; or serious central nervous system pathology
- History of intolerance to psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), or related compounds
Other
- Pregnant, breastfeeding, lack of adequate birth control
- Alcohol use of \>21 drinks per week (males); \>14 drinks per week (females; NIAAA guidelines)
- Use of serotonergic antiemetics (i.e., ondansetron) in the past 2 weeks
Who the study is looking for
- Diagnosis of migraine headache per ICHD-3 criteria
- Typical pattern of migraine attacks with approximately two migraines or more weekly
- Attacks are managed by means involving no more than twice weekly triptan use
Age in the registry: 21 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA Connecticut Healthcare System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | West Haven | United States | Unknown status |
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