Psychiatry CRO
Extensive Experience and Comprehensive Services for Psychiatric Clinical Development
Developing medical therapeutics for psychiatric diseases requires a specialized CRO partner. Lotus brings extensive experience, scientific acumen, comprehensive services including rater training and Placebo Response Mitigation, and access to investigational sites with exceptional psychiatric expertise. From early phase through phase IV, Lotus can help accelerate your psychiatric clinical development.
Psychiatry Studies
Schizophrenia and Depression Studies
Portfolio Sites with Psychiatric Expertise
Note: Statistics combine experience from both Lotus Clinical Research and Evolution Research Group’s network of clinical research sites
Demonstrated Expertise in Key Indications
- ADHD
- Anxiety Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Eating Disorders
- Depressive Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Opioid Use Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep Disorders as a secondary endpoint
Independent ratings and independent quality reviews can mitigate the risks of bias, variability, and human error.
Improve data quality
Maximize signal detection
Reduce variability
Ensure consistency
Specialized Services and Training to Support Psychiatric Clinical Research
Clinical Rating Scales and Screening Tools
Global Rater Training & Certification
Placebo Response Mitigation (PRM)
Adjudication and Surveillance Services
Our team provides adjudication and surveillance services, ensuring the integrity and quality of your clinical trial data. We maintain a vigilant approach to uphold the highest standards throughout the research process.
Ensuring Data Quality in Psychiatric Clinical Studies
Rater Qualification
Analysis of rater education and experience to ensure qualified raters train on scales.
Rater Training
Conceptual knowledge via didactic training.
Rater Certification
Raters are calibrated via gold-star standard scoring criterion for all key inclusion and efficacy scales.
Adjudication
Surveillance
Centralized review of rater data throughout study to prevent rater inflation and enhance quality of ratings.
Recalibration

The Lotus-ERG Advantage in Psychiatric Studies
For US-based studies, Lotus is able to leverage its affiliation with ERG, providing access to experienced sites and Principal Investigators in psychiatric clinical development. At ERG, raters average 20 years of clinical experience and are certified by industry-recognized psychiatric rating experts while back-up raters provide consistency across studies. Critically, both raters and site staff receive extensive training on mitigating placebo response which augments sponsor-provided instruction.
Specialized Equipment and Staff Expertise for Psychiatric Research Studies
ERG sites have access to a full suite of neuroimaging for psychiatric studies as well as other testing, services, and expertise including:
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scans
- On-site Polysomnogram (PSG) equipment, enabling overnight sleep studies without needing to disrupt patients.
- Electroencephalography/quantitative electroencephalography (EEG EEG/qEEG) experience
- Other specialized testing such as ophthalmologic exams, gynecological procedures, and surgical implants
- On-site staff prepare investigational products for all routes of administration, including compounding, encapsulation, and IV infusion. Sites engage in regular mock dosing to ensure that all time points are met, including pharmacokinetics (PK)
- Rigorous quality reviews are conducted by full-time quality assurance and quality control staff to ensure optimal outcomes for your study—and ample inpatient beds to accommodate complex study designs and provide the flexibility to separate populations
Targeted Patient Recruitment
