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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2017

Presynaptic Dopamine Capacity in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Taking Clozapine: An [

Euitae Kim, Oliver D Howes, Mattia Veronese, Katherine Beck, Seongho Seo, Jin Woo Park, Jae Sung Lee, Yun-Sang Lee, Jun Soo Kwon

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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78citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

78 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Euitae KimDepartment of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
Oliver D HowesPsychiatric Imaging, Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, UK.
Mattia VeroneseInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Katherine BeckInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Seongho SeoDepartment of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Jin Woo ParkDepartment of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Jae Sung LeeDepartment of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Yun-Sang LeeDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1640-2090
Jun Soo KwonDepartment of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Seoul National University · KRKing's College London · GBSeoul National University Bundang Hospital · KR

Funding

Medical Research Council G0700995Medical Research Council G1100809Medical Research Council MC_U120085814Medical Research Council MC_U120097115Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some patients with schizophrenia show poor response to first-line antipsychotic treatments and this is termed treatment-resistant schizophrenia. The differential response to first-line antipsychotic drugs may reflect a different underlying neurobiology. Indeed, a previous study found dopamine synthesis capacity was significantly lower in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. However, in this study, the treatment-resistant patients were highly symptomatic, whereas the responsive patients showed no or minimal symptoms. The study could not distinguish whether this was a trait effect or reflected the difference in symptom levels. Thus, we aimed to test whether dopaminergic function is altered in patients with a history of treatment resistance to first-line drugs relative to treatment responders when both groups are matched for symptom severity levels by recruiting treatment-resistant patients currently showed low symptom severity with the clozapine treatment. Healthy controls (n=12), patients treated with clozapine (n=12) who had not responded to first-line antipsychotics, and patients who had responded to first-line antipsychotics (n=12) were recruited. Participants were matched for age and sex and symptomatic severity level in patient groups. Participants' dopamine synthesis capacity was measured by using [

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Antipsychotic AgentsBiomarkersClozapineDihydroxyphenylalanineDopamineFemaleHumansMalePositron-Emission TomographySchizophreniaYoung AdultAntipsychotic AgentsBiomarkersClozapineDihydroxyphenylalanineDopaminefluorodopa F 18

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PMCPMC5312074
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