Korean J Psychopharmacol.
2001 Sep;12(3):187-200.
Relationship between First-Episode Schizophrenic Psychopathology and 99m-Tc-ECD SPECT Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Plasma Homovanillic Acid
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Kwandong University School of Medicine, Kangnung, Korea. drkooms@hanmail.net
- 2Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei Unversity School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 3Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yonsei Unversity School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 4Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei Unversity School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to examine the relative blood flow differences of brain regions between first-episode schizophrenic patients and normal controls and the relationships between these regions and the changes of psychopathology scores, the treatment response, after serotonin dopamine antagonist (SDA) risperidone treatment. Another purpose of this study was to investigate SPECT relative blood flow index as the treatment response predictor of SDA treatment under control of the influences of homovanillic acid (HVA). We hypothesize that there is differences in the brain blood flows examined by SPECT between first-episode schizophrenic patients and normal controls. Relative blood flow index examined by SPECT will be the response predictors of SDA treatment of schizophrenia under control of influences of metabolites.
METHODS
The relative blood flows of seventeen first-episode schizophrenic patients and ten normal controls were examined by 99m-Tc ECD SPECT before drug treatment. The patients group was treated for 6 weeks with SDA. The psychopathology was assessed at baseline just before SDA trial and then at 2 weeks and 6 weeks after SDA treatment. At the same time plasma HVA was evaluated by HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography).
RESULTS
The cerebral blood flow of first-episode schizophrenic patients was decreased in thalamus and left basal ganglia and the relative blood flow index of schizophrenic patient's left thalamus was significant therapeutic predictor of SDA treatment of positive symptoms under control of the HVA influnences.
CONCLUSION
These results suggest that the relative blood flow examined by SPECT will be a therapeutic index of SDA treatment in schizophrenia.
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