Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22036036›Full record

Trial reportBiological psychiatry2012

Glutamatergic modulation of auditory information processing in the human brain.

Handan Gunduz-Bruce, Robert M G Reinhart, Brian J Roach, Ralitza Gueorguieva, Stephen Oliver, Deepak C D'Souza, Judith M Ford, John H Krystal, Daniel H Mathalon

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Biological psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Neurophysiologic measures of target engagement predict response to auditory-based cognitive training in treatment refractory schizophrenia.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019
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  5. Neurophysiological Effects of Bitopertin in Schizophrenia.Journal of clinical psychopharmacology · 2017
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  10. Neighborhood social fragmentation in relation to impaired mismatch negativity among youth at clinical high risk for psychosis and healthy comparisons.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  11. P300 in schizophrenia: Then and now.Biological psychology · 2024
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  17. Neurochemistry of Visual Attention.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Handan Gunduz-BruceDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. handan.gunduz-bruce@yale.edu
Robert M G Reinhart
Brian J Roach
Ralitza Gueorguieva
Stephen Oliver
Deepak C D'Souza
Judith M Ford
John H Krystal
Daniel H Mathalon
Yale University · USSan Francisco VA Medical Center · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USVA Connecticut Healthcare System · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

Translational Technologies CoreP50AA012870 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Matthew J Girgenti · 2001 to 2026
$43.7M
Predictive Coding Abnormalities in Psychosis: EEG and fMRIR01MH058262 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FORD, JUDITH M · 1998 to 2018
$6.4M
Functional Brain Abnormalities in the Schizophrenia ProdromeR01MH076989 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MATHALON, DANIEL H · 2007 to 2014
$2.3M
Neurobiology of response monitoring failure in schizophreniaK02MH067967 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FORD, JUDITH M · 2003 to 2010
$1.1M
AMINO ACID NEUROTRANSMITTER DYSREGULATION IN ALCOHOLISMK05AA014906 · NIAAA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRYSTAL, JOHN H. · 2004 to 2008
$918k
AUTOMATIC ELICITATION OF COGNITIVE ERP COMPONENTSR01MH040052 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI FORD, JUDITH M · 1985 to 2001
$520k
NIAAA NIH HHS K05 AA014906NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA012870NIMH NIH HHS K02 MH067967NIMH NIH HHS MH067967NIMH NIH HHS MH40052NIMH NIH HHS MH58262NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH040052NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH058262NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076989
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAuditory mismatch negativity (MMN) and P300 event-related potentials (ERPs) are reduced in schizophrenia patients and healthy volunteers administered the N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor antagonist, ketamine. In rodents, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a stimulator of the cystine-glutamate exchanger, attenuates the cognitive and behavioral effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. On the basis of these findings, we tested whether NAC would reduce ketamine effects on behavior, MMN, and P300 in healthy humans.

methodsThis randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study consisted of 2 test days during which subjects (n = 16) were administered oral NAC (3000 mg in divided doses) or matching placebo 165 min before the infusion of saline and then ketamine (as a bolus of .23 mg/kg over 1 min followed by .58 mg/kg for 30 min, and then .29 mg/kg for 40 min) in a fixed order. Behavioral and ERP data including auditory MMN and P300 were collected during each test day.

resultsKetamine produced psychotic-like positive symptoms, reductions in working memory and sustained attention performance, and amplitude reductions for the frequency- and intensity-deviant MMNs and P300. NAC pretreatment did not reduce the behavioral or ERP effects of ketamine. In addition, NAC reduced frequency-deviant MMN amplitude and increased target and novelty P3 amplitudes. The decrements in frequency-deviant MMN amplitude produced by ketamine and NAC were not additive.

conclusionsNAC did not attenuate the effects of ketamine in humans, in contrast to previous studies in animals. NAC merits further investigation as a cognitive enhancing agent due to its ability to increase the P300 amplitude.

Indexed as

AcetylcysteineAdultBehaviorCognitionElectroencephalographyEvent-Related Potentials, P300Evoked Potentials, AuditoryExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsFemaleFree Radical ScavengersHumansKetamineMaleMemoryPsychomotor PerformanceReaction TimeAcetylcysteineExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsFree Radical ScavengersKetamineReceptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate

Identifiers

PMID22036036
PMCPMC3290754
OpenAlexW2017825692

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