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ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2016

Cycloid psychoses in the psychosis spectrum: evidence for biochemical differences with schizophrenia.

Nora Wa van de Kerkhof, Durk Fekkes, Frank Mma van der Heijden, Witte Jg Hoogendijk, Gerald Stöber, Jos Im Egger, Willem Ma Verhoeven

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Article in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nora Wa van de KerkhofVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence for Neuropsychiatry, Venray; Department of Psychiatry.
Durk FekkesDepartment of Psychiatry; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Frank Mma van der HeijdenVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence for Neuropsychiatry, Venray.
Witte Jg HoogendijkDepartment of Psychiatry.
Gerald StöberDepartment of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Jos Im EggerVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence for Neuropsychiatry, Venray; Behavioural Science Institute; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Willem Ma VerhoevenVincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Centre of Excellence for Neuropsychiatry, Venray; Department of Psychiatry.
University of Würzburg · DEVincent Van Gogh Voor Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cycloid psychoses (CP) differ from schizophrenia regarding symptom profile, course, and prognosis and over many decades they were thought to be a separate entity within the psychosis spectrum. As to schizophrenia, research into the pathophysiology has focused on dopamine, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and glutamate signaling in which, concerning the latter, the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor plays a crucial role. The present study aims to determine whether CP can biochemically be delineated from schizophrenia. Eighty patients referred for psychotic disorders were assessed with the Comprehensive Assessment of Symptoms and History, and (both at inclusion and after 6 weeks of antipsychotic treatment) with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and Clinical Global Impression. From 58 completers, 33 patients were diagnosed with schizophrenia and ten with CP according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, and Leonhard criteria, respectively. Fifteen patients were diagnosed with other disorders within the psychosis spectrum. At both time points, blood levels of the dopamine metabolite homovanillic acid, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and amino acids related to glutamate neurotransmission were measured and compared with a matched control sample. Patients with CP showed a significantly better response to antipsychotic treatment as compared to patients with schizophrenia. In CP, glycine levels were elevated and tryptophan levels were lowered as compared to schizophrenia. Glutamate levels were increased in both patient groups as compared to controls. These results, showing marked differences in both treatment outcome and glutamate-related variable parameters, may point at better neuroplasticity in CP, necessitating demarcation of this subgroup within the psychosis spectrum.

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cycloid psychosesglutamateglycineneuroplasticityschizophreniatryptophan

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PMCPMC4977096
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