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Authors Goto N, Yoshimura R , Kakeda S, Nishimura J, Moriya J, Hayashi K, Katsuki A, Hori H, Nakano W, Sugita A, Korigi Y, Nakamura J

Received 27 August 2011

Accepted for publication 24 September 2011

Published 3 April 2012 Volume 2012:8 Pages 119—122

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S25582

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 4

Naoki Goto1, Reiji Yoshimura1, Shingo Kakeda2, Joji Nishimura2, Junji Moriya2, Kenji Hayashi1, Asuka Katsuki1, Hikaru Hori1, Wakako Umene-Nakano1, Atsuko Ikenouchi-Sugita1, Yukunori Korogi2, Jun Nakamura1

1Department of Psychiatry, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

Objective: To study the effects of treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs on brain levels of glutamate plus glutamine in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia.
Participants: Sixteen patients (eight males, eight females; aged 30 ± 11 years) completed the study.
Methods: We used administered 6 months of atypical antipsychotic drugs and used proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to evaluate the results.
Results: We found that the administration of atypical antipsychotic drugs for 6 months decreased the glutamate plus glutamine/creatine ratio in the frontal lobe. These results suggest that the administration of atypical antipsychotic drugs for at least 6 months decreased glutamatergic neurotransmissions in the frontal lobe in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia, but there was no difference in frontal-lobe levels between patients and control subjects before administration.
Conclusion: Taking these findings into account, the glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons are implicated in early-stage first-episode schizophrenia, but in complex ways.

Keywords: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, creatine, frontal lobe, parieto-occipital node, left basal ganglia

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