Clinical trial • Phase II • Psychiatry
DRY EXTRACT FROM PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS (15-25:1), EXTRACTION SOLVENT: METHANOL for Anorexia nervosa
Phase II trial of DRY EXTRACT FROM PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS (15-25:1), EXTRACTION SOLVENT: METHANOL for Anorexia nervosa.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Psychiatry
- Trial Disease
- Anorexia nervosa
- Trial Stage
- Phase II
- Drug Modality
- Other
- Paediatric Trial
- Yes
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 21-03-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 18-06-2025
Trial design
Standard Treatment as Usual (TAU)-controlled Phase II trial across 1 site in Sweden.
- Comparator
- Standard Treatment as Usual (TAU)
- Real World Control
- Yes
- Target Sample Size
- 40
Eligibility
Recruits 40 paediatric patients.
- Pregnancy Exclusion
- Refusal of birth control during until primary endpoint.
- Vulnerable Population
- Participants include minors aged 16-17. The registry does not mark a vulnerable population (isVulnerablePopulationSelected:false) but parental/guardian consent materials are provided (document titles include 'Samtycke psiAN - foralder' and other parent consent forms), and participant information and consent forms for participants are present. Specific assent/consent age-handling is indicated by the presence of parent/guardian consent documents.
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Anorexia Nervosa as defined by DSM-5."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Age 16-35"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Ongoing stable contact with an outpatient psychiatric unit."}
- {"criterion_text":"- BMI >16."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Have experienced at least one period of remission (minimum BMI 17) followed by a relapse."}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Psychosis, bipolar disorder or substance use disorder"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Blood or needle phobia."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Unable to follow study protocol."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Presence of metal pieces in the body (contraindicated by fMRI)."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Cardiovascular conditions, epilepsy, diabetes mellitus"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Refusal of birth control during until primary endpoint."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Previous use of classical psychedelics"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Ongoing medications that would interfere negatively with the study drug."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Family history of psychosis or bipolar disorder."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Positive drug tests"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Suicidal intent."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Allergy or intolerance to drug content."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Any other clinically significant medical condition that, in the investigator’s opinion, may pose a risk to the participant or interfere with study results."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Incidence of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs) during the trial period.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Secondary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- General Anxiety (GAD-2)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Experiences in Close Relationships – (ECR–RS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Life Satisfaction (LS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Positive & Neg Affect (PANAS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Harmony in Life (HILS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Self-compassion (Short SCS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Ten Item Pers Inv (TIPI)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- AN symptom severity (EDE)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Response: A clinically significant improvement in weight and psychological symptoms during the treatment period.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Remission: The achievement and maintenance of weight restoration and psychological well-being, with no significant symptoms of anorexia nervosa.","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
- {"endpoint_text":"- Relapse: Defined as a composite outcome during the 6-month follow-up period","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 40
- Recruitment Window Months
- 20
- Consent Approach
- Participant informed consent is documented; there are dedicated participant information and consent forms and separate parental consent forms (document titles: 'Forskningspersonsinformation', 'Samtycke psiAN - foralder', 'Samtycke_psiAN_deltagare'). For minors (age 16-17) parent/guardian consent materials are provided. Languages of the documents are not explicitly stated in the available metadata.
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 1
- Total Number Of Participants
- 40
Sweden
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 01-06-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 17-04-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 320
- Number Of Sites
- 1
- Number Of Participants
- 40
Sites
- Site Name
- Region Skane Skanes Universitetssjukhus
- Department Name
- Clinical Sciences
- Principal Investigator Name
- Pouya Movahed Rad
- Principal Investigator Email
- pouya.movahed_rad@med.lu.se
- Contact Person Name
- Pouya Movahed Rad
- Contact Person Email
- pouya.movahed_rad@med.lu.se
- Number Of Participants
- 40
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Region Skane
- Organisation Type
- Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
- Country Of Registered Address
- Sweden
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- PEX010 (PRD12057625)
- Active Substance
- DRY EXTRACT FROM PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS (15-25:1), EXTRACTION SOLVENT: METHANOL
- Modality
- Other
- Routes Of Administration
- Oral
- Route
- Oral
- Starting Dose
- 25 mg
- Dose Levels
- 25 mg
- Frequency
- Two doses: 25 mg given once, repeated one month later
- Maximum Dose
- 50 mg
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