High-dose glycine added to olanzapine and risperidone for the treatment of schizophrenia
| Autor: | Gali Bar, Daniel C. Javitt, Pesah Lichtenberg, Uriel Heresco-Levy, Marina Ermilov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male Olanzapine Psychosis Time Factors medicine.medical_treatment Glycine Behavioral Symptoms Pharmacology Benzodiazepines Double-Blind Method Serine medicine Humans Antipsychotic Biological Psychiatry Clozapine Cross-Over Studies Risperidone Dose-Response Relationship Drug business.industry Dopamine antagonist Pirenzepine Middle Aged medicine.disease Crossover study Treatment Outcome Schizophrenia Multivariate Analysis Drug Therapy Combination Female business Antipsychotic Agents medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Biological Psychiatry. 55:165-171 |
| ISSN: | 0006-3223 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0006-3223(03)00707-8 |
| Popis: | Clinical trials indicate that glycine site agonists of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may reduce negative and cognitive symptoms in treatment-resistant schizophrenia when used as adjuvants to conventional antipsychotics but possibly not to clozapine. In this study, we assessed whether high-dose glycine may also be therapeutically beneficial when added to olanzapine and risperidone treatment.Seventeen olanzapine- or risperidone-treated schizophrenia patients participated in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, 6-week crossover treatment trial with.8 g/kg/day glycine added to their ongoing antipsychotic medication. Clinical assessments were performed biweekly throughout the study. Clinical laboratory parameters and amino acid serum levels were monitored.Glycine treatment was well tolerated and resulted in a significant (p.0001) 23% +/- 8% reduction in negative symptoms. Significant improvements were also registered in cognitive and positive symptoms. The negative symptoms improvement remained significant even following covariation for changes in other symptom clusters and extrapyramidal side effects. High posttreatment glycine serum levels significantly predicted (r =.60) clinical response.These findings indicate that the efficacy of olanzapine and risperidone may be augmented using high-dose adjuvant glycine treatment and suggest that these atypical antipsychotics may affect NMDA receptor-mediated neurotransmission differently than clozapine. |
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