Trial reportThe American journal of psychiatry2016
Baseline Striatal Functional Connectivity as a Predictor of Response to Antipsychotic Drug Treatment.
Trial report in The American journal of psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04671836 (Lorazepam Effects on Neuroimaging Measures), which is not on this map. Cited by 125 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Lorazepam Effects on Neuroimaging Measures: A Pilot Study
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125 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Early Non-Response to Antipsychotic Treatment in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Evidence-Based Management Options.CNS drugs · 2023Pooled it
- fMRI connectivity as a biomarker of antipsychotic treatment response: A systematic review.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2023Pooled it
- Heterogeneity and efficacy of antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia with or without treatment resistance: a meta-analysis.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Pooled it
- Is treatment-resistant schizophrenia categorically distinct from treatment-responsive schizophrenia? a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2017Pooled it
- Functional Connectivity Predicting Transdiagnostic Treatment Outcomes in Internalizing Psychopathologies.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Symptom Remission and Brain Cortical Networks at First Clinical Presentation of Psychosis: The OPTiMiSE Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Trial
- Frontal lobe functioning during a simple response conflict task in first-episode psychosis and its relationship to treatment response.Brain imaging and behavior · 2019Trial
- Response to initial antipsychotic treatment in first episode psychosis is related to anterior cingulate glutamate levels: a multicentreMolecular psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Relationship of Cognition to Clinical Response in First-Episode Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2015Trial
- Connectomic signatures advance the understandings of transdiagnostic heterogeneity in psychosis.Communications medicine · 2026Review
- Transdiagnostic Neurobiology of Social Cognition and Individual Variability as Measured by Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation in Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Clozapine treatment in the early stages of schizophrenia.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Distinct and common subcortical functional connectivity revealed across three major psychiatric disorders.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Intrinsic connectivity patterns of striatal subfields predict individual dimensions of psychopathology and are associated with cholinergic and serotonergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Clinical deep phenotyping of treatment response in schizophrenia (CDP-STAR): design and methodology of a prospective multimodal observational study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Observational
- Abnormal connectivity in the fronto-striatal network in adolescent depression with psychotic symptoms.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Prognostic Biomarkers and Precision Psychiatry: A Review of the Available Evidence.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Functional Coupling and Longitudinal Outcome Prediction in First-Episode Psychosis.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Molecular Underpinning of Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia: A Putative Different Neurobiology from Treatment-Responsive Schizophrenia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Longitudinal changes in striatocortical connectivity in first-episode psychosis associated with the emergence of treatment resistance.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveClinical response to antipsychotic drug treatment is highly variable, yet prognostic biomarkers are lacking. The authors recently demonstrated that successful antipsychotic drug treatment alters resting-state functional connectivity of the striatum. The goal of the present study was to test whether intrinsic striatal connectivity patterns provide prognostic information and can serve as a potential biomarker of treatment response to antipsychotic drugs.
methodThe authors used resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) to develop a prognostic index in a discovery cohort of 41 first-episode schizophrenia patients, then tested this index in an independent cohort of 40 newly hospitalized chronic patients with acute psychosis. In the discovery cohort, patients underwent resting-state fMRI scanning at the initiation of randomized controlled treatment with a second-generation antipsychotic. Whole-brain functional connectivity maps were generated for each subject from striatal seed regions. A stringent measure of clinical response was calculated that required sustained improvement over two consecutive study visits. Clinical response was entered into a survival analysis, and Cox regression was applied to the functional connectivity data. A striatal connectivity index was created, comprising functional connections of the striatum that predicted treatment response. This striatal connectivity index was tested on a generalizability cohort of patients with psychotic disorders who were hospitalized for an acute psychotic episode.
resultsA total of 91 regions functionally connected with the striatum provided significant prognostic information. Connectivity in these regions was used to create a baseline striatal connectivity index that predicted response to antipsychotic treatment with high sensitivity and specificity in both the discovery and generalizability cohorts.
conclusionsThese results provide evidence that individual differences in striatal functional connectivity predict response to antipsychotic drug treatment in acutely psychotic patients. With further development, this has the potential to serve as a prognostic biomarker with clinical utility and to reduce the overall burden associated with psychotic illnesses.
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