Electrical brain activity and response to olanzapine in schizophrenia: A study with LORETA images of P300
Autor: | Hirofumi Arai, Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Yuko Higuchi, Kanade Kato, Masayoshi Kurachi, Mie Matsui, Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Hiromi Yuuki |
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Rok vydání: | 2006 |
Předmět: |
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Male Olanzapine medicine.medical_specialty Psychosis Audiology Verbal learning Statistics Nonparametric Temporal lobe Benzodiazepines Event-related potential Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale medicine Humans Biological Psychiatry Pharmacology Brain Mapping Brain Electroencephalography Middle Aged medicine.disease Event-Related Potentials P300 Schizophrenia Case-Control Studies Female Verbal memory Psychology Neuroscience Antipsychotic Agents medicine.drug |
Zdroj: | Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. 30:1299-1303 |
ISSN: | 0278-5846 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2006.04.028 |
Popis: | The aim of this study was to evaluate the change in the distribution for the P300 generator, as demonstrated by Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) images, in patients with schizophrenia during treatment with olanzapine. Data were obtained from five right-handed patients treated with olanzapine for 6 months. Five right-handed normal volunteers also participated in the study. LORETA images of P300 in response to the odd-ball auditory discrimination task revealed a left dominant lateralized high current source density in the temporal lobes in all control subjects. Although this pattern of brain activation was not evident in patients at baseline, 6-month treatment with olanzapine recovered the left dominant pattern of the electrical density in the temporal regions, such as the Heschl gyrus, and improved performance on a test of verbal learning and memory. Scores of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale also improved during treatment. These results provide the first suggestion that enhancement of verbal memory and the functional status by treatment with some antipsychotic drugs may be associated with modulations of the anatomical configuration of electrical brain activity in patients with schizophrenia. |
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