LivaNova, Verily Enroll for Depression Study

 

LivaNova PLC (NASDAQ:LIVN), a market-leading medical technology and innovation company, and Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet focused on life sciences and healthcare, today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in their collaborative UNCOVER study or "The RECOVER Sub-Study, Which Leverages Quantitative and Credible Research Tools from Verily, Will Provide Assessment Measures for Depressive Episodes."

UNCOVER is an opt-in research study for patients taking part in the ongoing LivaNova clinical study RECOVER or "A Prospective, Multi-center, Randomized Controlled Blinded Trial Demonstrating the Safety and Effectiveness of VNS Therapy® as Adjunctive Therapy Versus a No Stimulation Control in Subjects with Treatment-Resistant Depression." The UNCOVER sub-study deploys technology-enabled research tools from Verily to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of VNS Therapy as an adjunctive treatment for difficult-to-treat depression (DTD). The first UNCOVER patient was enrolled by Dr. David L. Dunner, FACPsych, Director of the Center for Anxiety and Depression in Mercer Island, Wash., and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Participants in the UNCOVER sub-study will use two Verily-developed digital tools – a wearable, multi-sensor device (Verily Study Watch) along with an Android smartphone application (Verily Mood App). The Verily tools measure passive and active data, such as the participant’s pulse rate, activity levels and sleep quality. The Mood App also allows participants to record voice diaries to more accurately assess depressive episodes and their effect on daily living.

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