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Aziz MNM, Kumar J, Muhammad Nawawi KN, Raja Ali RA, Mokhtar NM. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Depression, and Neurodegeneration: A Bidirectional Communication from Gut to Brain. Nutrients 2021; 13:nu13093061. [PMID: 34578939 PMCID: PMC8468817 DOI: 10.3390/nu13093061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are increasingly presenting with a wide range of neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as deterioration in gastroenteric physiology, including visceral hypersensitivity, altered intestinal membrane permeability, and gastrointestinal motor dysfunction. Functional imaging of IBS patients has revealed several abnormalities in various brain regions, such as significant activation of amygdala, thinning of insular and anterior cingulate cortex, and increase in hypothalamic gray matter, which results in poor psychiatric and cognitive outcomes. Interrelations between the enteric and central events in IBS-related gastrointestinal, neurological, and psychiatric pathologies have compelled researchers to study the gut-brain axis-a bidirectional communication that maintains the homeostasis of the gastrointestinal and central nervous system with gut microbiota as the protagonist. Thus, it can be disrupted by any alteration owing to the gut dysbiosis or loss of diversity in microbial composition. Available evidence indicates that the use of probiotics as a part of a balanced diet is effective in the management of IBS and IBS-associated neurodegenerative and psychiatric comorbidities. In this review, we delineate the pathogenesis and complications of IBS from gastrointestinal and neuropsychiatric standpoints while also discussing the neurodegenerative events in enteric and central nervous systems of IBS patients and the therapeutic potential of gut microbiota-based therapy established on clinical and preclinical data.
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- Muhammad Nazirul Mubin Aziz
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (M.N.M.A.); (J.K.)
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (M.N.M.A.); (J.K.)
- Gut Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (K.N.M.N.); (R.A.R.A.)
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- Gut Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (K.N.M.N.); (R.A.R.A.)
- Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia
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- Gut Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (K.N.M.N.); (R.A.R.A.)
- Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (M.N.M.A.); (J.K.)
- Gut Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia; (K.N.M.N.); (R.A.R.A.)
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Fang J, Li S, Li M, Chan Q, Ma X, Su H, Wang T, Zhan W, Yan J, Xu M, Zhang Y, Zeng L, Tian J, Jiang G. Altered white matter microstructure identified with tract-based spatial statistics in irritable bowel syndrome: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 11:1110-1116. [PMID: 27627891 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-016-9573-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The neural mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) are far from being completely understood. The purpose of the present study was to investigate potential white matter (WM) microstructural changes and underlying causes for WM impairment in IBS using diffusion tensor imaging. The present prospective study involved 19 patients with IBS and 20 healthy controls. Whole-brain voxel-wise analyses of fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) were performed by tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) to localize abnormal WM regions between the 2 groups. We found that IBS patients had significantly reduced FA (P < 0.05) in the splenium of the corpus callosum, the right retrolenticular area of the internal capsule and the right superior corona radiata. We also found increased MD (P < 0.05) in the splenium and body of the corpus callosum, the right retrolenticular area of the internal capsule, the right superior corona radiata and the right posterior limb of the internal capsule. In addition, IBS patients had significantly increased AD (P < 0.05) in the splenium of the corpus callosum, the bilateral retrolenticular area of the internal capsule and the left posterior limb of the internal capsule. We conclude that the WM microstructure is changed in IBS and the underlying pathological basis may be attributed to the axonal injury and loss. These results may lead to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of IBS.
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- Jin Fang
- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong No.2 Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, 510317, People's Republic of China.
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Teixeira AL, Costa EAC, da Silva AA, dos Santos IAM, Gómez RS, Kummer A, Lauterbach EC. Psychiatric comorbidities of chronic migraine in community and tertiary care clinic samples. J Headache Pain 2012; 13:551-5. [PMID: 22940870 PMCID: PMC3444538 DOI: 10.1007/s10194-012-0480-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Accepted: 08/21/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Although the association between episodic migraine and psychiatric comorbidities is well documented, few studies have focused on the comorbidity with chronic migraine (CM) and discrepancies exist between population-based and clinic-based data. The objective of this study is to compare demographic and psychiatric comorbidity correlates between CM samples drawn from the community and tertiary care. All inhabitants from a city borough were interviewed for the presence of headaches occurring 15 or more days per month. CM was diagnosed after subjects had been interviewed and examined by a headache doctor. Participants were also assessed with a structured interview by a psychiatrist, who assigned diagnoses based on the DSM-IV. The same investigators assessed all patients consecutively seen in a university-based outpatient headache center over a 4-month period. The samples consist of 41 individuals from the community and 43 from the headache center. Sociodemographic profiles were similar between groups with the exception of the mean number of years of formal education. Among individuals from the community, psychiatric diagnoses were present in 65.9 % of cases, relative to 83.7 % in those from the headache center (p = 0.06). Phobias (41.9 vs. 29.3 %) and depression (32.6 vs. 29.3 %) were more frequent in patients from the headache center, but this difference did not reach statistical significance. Thus the frequency of psychiatric disorders in patients with CM was elevated in both settings, being higher in the specialty care clinic.
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- Antonio Lucio Teixeira
- Headache Clinic, Neurology Unit, University Hospital, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Av. Alfredo Balena 110, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-100, Brazil,
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Antonaci F, Nappi G, Galli F, Manzoni GC, Calabresi P, Costa A. Migraine and psychiatric comorbidity: a review of clinical findings. J Headache Pain 2011; 12:115-25. [PMID: 21210177 PMCID: PMC3072482 DOI: 10.1007/s10194-010-0282-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2010] [Accepted: 12/16/2010] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Migraine is an extremely common disorder. The underlying mechanisms of this chronic illness interspersed with acute symptoms appear to be increasingly complex. An important aspect of migraine heterogeneity is comorbidity with other neurological diseases, cardiovascular disorders, and psychiatric illnesses. Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of disability worldwide according to WHO estimation. In this review, we have mainly considered the findings from general population studies and studies on clinical samples, in adults and children, focusing on the association between migraine and psychiatric disorders (axis I of the DSM), carried over after the first classification of IHS (1988). Though not easily comparable due to differences in methodology to reach diagnosis, general population studies generally indicate an increased risk of affective and anxiety disorders in patients with migraine, compared to non-migrainous subjects. There would also be a trend towards an association of migraine with bipolar disorder, but not with substance abuse/dependence. With respect to migraine subtypes, comorbidity mainly involves migraine with aura. Patients suffering from migraine, however, show a decreased risk of developing affective and anxiety disorders compared to patients with daily chronic headache. It would also appear that psychiatric disorders prevail in patients with chronic headache and substance use than in patients with simple migraine. The mechanisms underlying migraine psychiatric comorbidity are presently poorly understood, but this topic remains a priority for future research. Psychiatric comorbidity indeed affects migraine evolution, may lead to chronic substance use, and may change treatment strategies, eventually modifying the outcome of this important disorder.
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- Fabio Antonaci
- University Centre for Adaptive Disorders and Head pain (UCADH), Pavia, Italy.
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Li XL, Fang YN, Gao QC, Lin EJ, Hu SH, Ren L, Ding MH, Luo BN. A diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging study of corpus callosum from adult patients with migraine complicated with depressive/anxious disorder. Headache 2010; 51:237-45. [PMID: 20946428 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01774.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the possible microstructural abnormalities of the corpus callosum (CC) in adult patients with migraine without aura complicated with depressive/anxious disorder. BACKGROUND Emotional disorders, especially depression and anxiety, are with relatively higher incidence in migraine population. However, the mechanism of migraine complicated with depressive/anxious disorder remains unclear. METHODS Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging was carried out in 12 adult patients with simple migraine (without aura and without depressive/anxious disorder) (S-M group), 12 adult patients with complicated migraine (without aura but complicated with depressive/anxious disorder) (Co-M group), and 12 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects (Control group). Fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient were measured at genu, body, and splenium of the CC, respectively. RESULTS There were significant differences in FA values at all locations of the CC among the 3 groups. The FA values from both the SM and Co-M groups were significantly lower than the control (P < .05 and P < .01, respectively). The FA values from Co-M group were significantly lower than the SM group (P < .01). The apparent diffusion coefficient values of the above regions had no significant differences among these groups (P > .05). There were negative correlations between FA value of genu of the CC and disease course as well as FA value of genu and body of the CC and headache frequency (P < .05). Negative correlations were also found between FA values at all locations of the CC and Hamilton anxiety and Hamilton depression scores (both P < .05). CONCLUSIONS There might be an integrity change of neurofibrotic microstructures existing as a possible neuroanatomical basis in the CC of migraine patients complicated with depressive/anxious disorder.
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- Xian L Li
- Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Stokes DA, Lappin MS. Neurofeedback and biofeedback with 37 migraineurs: a clinical outcome study. Behav Brain Funct 2010; 6:9. [PMID: 20205867 PMCID: PMC2826281 DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-6-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2009] [Accepted: 02/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Traditional peripheral biofeedback has grade A evidence for effectively treating migraines. Two newer forms of neurobiofeedback, EEG biofeedback and hemoencephalography biofeedback were combined with thermal handwarming biofeedback to treat 37 migraineurs in a clinical outpatient setting. Methods 37 migraine patients underwent an average of 40 neurofeedback sessions combined with thermal biofeedback in an outpatient biofeedback clinic. All patients were on at least one type of medication for migraine; preventive, abortive or rescue. Patients kept daily headache diaries a minimum of two weeks prior to treatment and throughout treatment showing symptom frequency, severity, duration and medications used. Treatments were conducted an average of three times weekly over an average span of 6 months. Headache diaries were examined after treatment and a formal interview was conducted. After an average of 14.5 months following treatment, a formal interview was conducted in order to ascertain duration of treatment effects. Results Of the 37 migraine patients treated, 26 patients or 70% experienced at least a 50% reduction in the frequency of their headaches which was sustained on average 14.5 months after treatments were discontinued. Conclusions All combined neuro and biofeedback interventions were effective in reducing the frequency of migraines with clients using medication resulting in a more favorable outcome (70% experiencing at least a 50% reduction in headaches) than just medications alone (50% experience a 50% reduction) and that the effect size of our study involving three different types of biofeedback for migraine (1.09) was more robust than effect size of combined studies on thermal biofeedback alone for migraine (.5). These non-invasive interventions may show promise for treating treatment-refractory migraine and for preventing the progression from episodic to chronic migraine.
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- Deborah A Stokes
- The Better Brain Center, Inc, 2121 Eisenhower Ave Suite 604 Alexandria, VA 22314, USA.
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Galli F, Canzano L, Scalisi TG, Guidetti V. Psychiatric disorders and headache familial recurrence: a study on 200 children and their parents. J Headache Pain 2009; 10:187-97. [PMID: 19352592 PMCID: PMC3451992 DOI: 10.1007/s10194-009-0105-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2008] [Accepted: 01/31/2009] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The main aim of the study was to examine the relationship between headache and familial recurrence of psychiatric disorders in parents and their children. Headache history and symptomatology have been collected in a clinical sample of 200 patients and their families, using a semi-structured interview (ICHD-II criteria). Psychiatric comorbidity was assessed by DSM-IV criteria. Chi squares and a loglinear analysis were computed in order to evaluate the main effects and interactions between the following factors: frequency and headache subtypes (migraine/not-migraine) in children, headache (migraine/not-migraine-absent/present) in parents, headache (absent/present) in grandparents, and psychiatric comorbidity (absent/present) have been analyzed: 94 mothers (47%) and 51 fathers (25.5%) had at least one psychiatric disorder, mainly mood and anxiety disorders. Considering the significant prevalence of Psi-co in children (P < 0.0001), we compared it with the presence of familiarity to headache: a significant interaction has been found (P < 0.05) showing that migraineurs with high familial recurrence of headache had a higher percentage (74.65%) of psychiatric disorders, than no-migraineurs (52.17%). Absence of headache familial loading seems to be related to psi-co only in no-migraine headache (87.5 vs. 45.5%). The occurrence of psychiatric disorders is high in children with headache, but a very different pattern seems to characterize migraine (familial co-transmission of migraine and Psi-Co?) if compared with non-migraine headache.
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- Federica Galli
- Department of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via dei Sabelli, 108-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via dei Sabelli, 108-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Neurology, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via dei Sabelli, 108-00185 Rome, Italy
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Jette N, Patten S, Williams J, Becker W, Wiebe S. Comorbidity of migraine and psychiatric disorders--a national population-based study. Headache 2007; 48:501-16. [PMID: 18070059 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00993.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Migraine is common, with an estimated lifetime prevalence of 7-17%. Population-based studies have reported an association between various psychiatric conditions and migraine. This is a population-based study exploring the association between migraine and psychiatric disorders in a large cohort and assessing various health-related outcomes. OBJECTIVE (1) Determine the prevalence of various psychiatric conditions in association with migraine; (2) describe the patterns of association of these comorbidities with a variety of health-related outcomes. METHODS Data from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey were used. This is a national health survey which included administration of the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview to a sample of 36,984 subjects. Health-related outcomes included 2-week disability, restriction of activities, quality-of-life, and mental health care utilization. RESULTS The prevalence of physician-diagnosed migraine (n=36,984) was 15.2% for females and 6.1% for males. Migraine was most common in those between ages 25 and 44 years and in those of lower income. Migraine was associated with major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia, all occurring more than twice as often in those with migraines compared with those without. Migraine was not associated with drug, alcohol, or substance dependence. The higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders in migraineurs was not related to sociodemographic variables. Psychiatric disorders were less common in those over 65 years, in those who were in a relationship, and in those of higher income whether migraine was present or not. Health-related outcomes were worst in those with both migraines and a psychiatric disorder and intermediate in those with either condition alone. CONCLUSION Migraine is associated with major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia. Migraine in association with various mental health disorders results in poorer health-related outcomes compared with migraine or a psychiatric condition alone. Understanding the psychiatric correlates of migraine is important in order to adequately manage this patient population and to guide public health policies regarding health services utilization and health-care costs.
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- Nathalie Jette
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Gargus JJ. Ion channel functional candidate genes in multigenic neuropsychiatric disease. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 60:177-85. [PMID: 16497276 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2005] [Revised: 11/15/2005] [Accepted: 12/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Scores of monogenic Mendelian ion channel diseases serve to anchor the pathophysiology of the channelopathies, but there are also now clear examples of environmental, pharmacogenetic, and acquired channelopathy mechanisms. The cardinal feature of heritable ion channel disease is a periodic disturbance of rhythmic function in constitutionally hyperexcitable tissue. While the complexity of neuroanatomy obscures functional analysis of mutations causing monogenic seizure, ataxia, or migraine syndromes, extrapolation from the cardiac (Long QT [LQT]) and muscle (Periodic Paralysis) channelopathy syndromes provides a simplified predictive framework of molecular pathology: electrically stabilizing potassium ion (K(+)) and chloride ion (Cl(-)) channels, likely having lesions that diminish their current, and excitatory Na(+) channels, likely having gain-of-function lesions. The voltage-gated calcium channel gene family that contains CACNA1C, the newest LQT locus, causing Timothy Syndrome with a phenotype including autism, has proven to be particularly informative for its members' ability to tie the various central nervous system (CNS) phenotypes together in an interpretable fashion, now including direct extension to the classically multigenic neuropsychiatric phenotypes. Features of a promising ion channel candidate gene arise from its broad locus, gene family, nature of alleles, physiology and pharmacology, tissue expression profile, and phenotype in model organisms. KCNN3 is explored as a paradigm to consider.
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- J Jay Gargus
- Department of Physiology, Section of Human Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4034, USA.
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Kowacs F, Socal MP, Ziomkowski SC, Borges-Neto VF, Toniolo DP, Francesconi CRM, Chaves MLF. Symptoms of depression and anxiety, and screening for mental disorders in migrainous patients. Cephalalgia 2003; 23:79-89. [PMID: 12603363 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2003.00461.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The purpose of this clinic-based study was the assessment of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and non-specific psychiatric disorders amongst patients with migraine, compared with healthy subjects and with individuals with a non-neurological chronic disease. A cross-sectional study was carried out in which 178 individuals (migraine 51; psoriasis 35; healthy 92) were submitted to three scales: MADRS (depression), STAI-T (anxiety) and SRQ (screening for mental disorders). The subjects with migraine and psoriasis were from the Out-patient Clinics of Headache and of Dermatology, and the healthy volunteers were persons who were accompanying out-patients in the same hospital. Scores were analysed by manova and by association analysis and logistic regression. Scores of all instruments were higher in the migrainous group, but the univariate analysis of association (using cut-offs) showed significance only for suspicion of mental disorders (SRQ). By logistic regression, variables with strongest association to migraine were gender, education, and SRQ in decreasing order.
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- F Kowacs
- Serviço de Neurologia e Pós-Graduação em Medicina, Clínica Médica, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul School of Medicine, Brazil.
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The goal of the present study was to investigate the clinical profile of patients with primary headache syndromes who also suffer from mood disorders. Four-hundred-and-seventy headache outpatients (170M, 300F) and 150 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects were screened using a specific questionnaire that included the Hamilton rating scales for anxiety and depression. The average scores of the Hamilton rating scales for anxiety and depression were significantly higher in headache sufferers (17.4 and 14.2, respectively) than in healthy people (6.8 and 5.7, respectively). The frequency of headache attacks, the history of headaches, and gender (women more than men) were correlated with the score of the Hamilton rating scale for both anxiety and depression. Sixteen headache patients (3.4%) achieved the DSM-IV criteria for major depression or dysthymia versus one among headache-free subjects (0.6%; OR 5.2). Patients suffering from drug-overuse and migraine with aura showed the higher odds ratios (35 and 17, respectively). These results suggest that those headache patients with long history and high frequency of headaches, or patients suffering from migraine with aura and drug-overuse might benefit from psychiatric evaluation.
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- D D Mitsikostas
- Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Department of Neurology, Greece.
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Herrmann C. International experiences with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale--a review of validation data and clinical results. J Psychosom Res 1997; 42:17-41. [PMID: 9055211 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3999(96)00216-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1998] [Impact Index Per Article: 74.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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More than 200 published studies from most medical settings worldwide have reported experiences with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) which was specifically developed by Zigmond and Snaith for use with physically ill patients. Although introduced in 1983, there is still no comprehensive documentation of its psychometric properties. The present review summarizes available data on reliability and validity and gives an overview of clinical studies conducted with this instrument and their most important findings. The HADS gives clinically meaningful results as a psychological screening tool, in clinical group comparisons and in correlational studies with several aspects of disease and quality of life. It is sensitive to changes both during the course of diseases and in response to psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological intervention. Finally, HADS scores predict psychosocial and possibly also physical outcome.
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- C Herrmann
- Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Göttingen, Germany.
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Heit S, Nemeroff CB. Migraine and Affective Disorders. Psychiatr Ann 1996. [DOI: 10.3928/0048-5713-19960702-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Merikangas KR, Stevens DE, Merikangas JR, Katz CB, Glover V, Cooper T, Sandler M. Tyramine conjugation deficit in migraine, tension-type headache, and depression. Biol Psychiatry 1995; 38:730-6. [PMID: 8580225 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00045-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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This study was designed to investigate tyramine sulfate conjugation in patients with migraine or tension-type headache, as defined by the newly introduced International Headache Society (IHS) criteria and to examine whether this relationship is mediated by major depression. A total of 62 subjects completed the study: 38 with migraine (22 with aura and 16 without aura), 12 with tension-type headache, and 12 controls. Patients with migraine had significantly lower urinary tyramine sulfate excretion following oral tyramine challenge than normal control. Tension-type headache was also associated with low tyramine conjugation, but only when comorbid with depression. Although mean tyramine sulfate output was lower among subjects with major depression within each of the subtypes of headache, no significant main effect emerged for depression or major subtype thereof. The lower tyramine sulfate excretion values among patients with both migraine and depression compared to those of migraine alone or depression alone in our data and those of others suggests that comorbid migraine with depression may represent a more severe form of migraine than migraine alone. The findings underscore the importance of comorbidity in clinical and epidemiological studies of migraine.
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- K R Merikangas
- Department of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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Hale AS, Hannah R, Sandler M, Glover V. Detoxified alcoholics, major depressives and tyramine sulphate excretion. J Psychopharmacol 1995; 9:386-9. [PMID: 22298406 DOI: 10.1177/026988119500900415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The excretion of tyramine sulphate after challenge with an oral load of tyramine was assessed in recently detoxified, clinically depressed alcoholics and a matched group of major depressives. Tyramine excretion in the alcohol group (mean 5.95 ± 3.28 mg/3 h SD) was in the range previously observed in controls and was significantly higher than in the matched depressives (mean 3.43 ± 2.37 mg/3 h SD). Tyramine sulphate excretion has been suggested as a genetic vulnerability marker for major depression. This study suggests that depression associated with alcohol withdrawal is not characterised by decreased tyramine sulphate excretion after oral tyramine challenge, such decreased conjugation only being present, perhaps, in those patients with pre- existing endogenous depressive vulnerability. Although a genetic link between alcoholism and depression exists, these results support the absence of such a link to major depression.
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- A S Hale
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Sheffield, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU
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Marazziti D, Bonuccelli U, Nuti A, Toni C, Pedri S, Palego L, Pavese N, Lucetti C, Muratorio A, Cassano GB. Platelet 3H-imipramine binding and sulphotransferase activity in primary headache. Cephalalgia 1994; 14:210-4. [PMID: 7954741 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1994.014003210.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We investigated platelet 3H-imipramine (3H-IMI) binding, a putative peripheral serotonergic marker, and the activity of sulphotransferase (ST), an enzyme involved in the catabolism of catecholamines and phenolic compounds, in 14 patients suffering from migraine without aura (MWoA) and in 10 with tension-type headache (TH), as compared with a group of controls. The possible relationships between the biological parameters and clinical features were also examined. The results showed that the two groups of patients had a lower number of 3H-IMI binding sites and a lower activity of the thermolabile form of ST, which acts preferentially on monoamine substrates, than the healthy controls, with no intergroup differences. Significant correlations between psychopathological rating scales and characteristics of the illness were observed in the patients with TH. The decreased number of platelet 3H-IMI binding sites is suggestive of a presynaptic serotonergic dysfunction and confirms the involvement of 5HT in primary headaches. The reduced ST activity might produce changes in the level of sulphated biogenic amines, including dopamine and tyramine, which might have an additional role in the pathophysiology of some aspects of primary headache.
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- D Marazziti
- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, Italy
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The present study examined the prevalence and severity of anxiety and depression among people with migraine. To obtain a spectrum of migraine experience two potentially different samples were identified: over 600 patients attending migraine clinics and 87 migraine sufferers in the general population. International Headache Society criteria were used to establish the diagnosis of migraine. Anxiety and depression were measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale and studies using this scale in other patient groups were identified for comparison. Approximately 50% of subjects experienced anxiety and 20% experienced depression, rates which were consistent across the two study groups. This prevalence of psychological morbidity is unexpectedly high and comparable to that measured in patients with other diseases. There is no evidence that it is correlated with frequency of migraine attacks. Anxiety and depression are common among people with migraine and remain largely unrecognized. Future studies should identify contributory factors.
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- Jennifer Devlen
- Centre for Primary Care Research, Department of General Practice, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Devlen J. Anxiety and depression in migraine. J R Soc Med 1994; 87:338-41. [PMID: 8046705 PMCID: PMC1294564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The present study examined the prevalence and severity of anxiety and depression among people with migraine. To obtain a spectrum of migraine experience two potentially different samples were identified: over 600 patients attending migraine clinics and 87 migraine sufferers in the general population. International Headache Society criteria were used to establish the diagnosis of migraine. Anxiety and depression were measured using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale and studies using this scale in other patient groups were identified for comparison. Approximately 50% of subjects experienced anxiety and 20% experienced depression, rates which were consistent across the two study groups. This prevalence of psychological morbidity is unexpectedly high and comparable to that measured in patients with other diseases. There is no evidence that it is correlated with frequency of migraine attacks. Anxiety and depression are common among people with migraine and remain largely unrecognized. Future studies should identify contributory factors.
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- J Devlen
- Department of General Practice, University of Manchester, UK
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Weizman A, Fluhr H, Weitz R, Kehat R, Inbar D, Cohen A, Mester R, Rehavi M. Platelet serotonin transporter in drug-naive migrainous children and adolescents. Biol Psychiatry 1994; 35:452-6. [PMID: 8018796 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(94)90043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Platelet [3H]imipramine binding was measured in 17 children and adolescents suffering from common (n = 10) and classical (n = 7) migraine and 10 healthy control subjects. All patients had more than a 1-year history of the disease and suffered at least one attack per month. All subjects had been drug-free for at least 4 weeks prior to the study and had never been treated with drugs active at the serotonergic system. An increased density in [3H]imipramine binding sites was detected in the migraine patients (+51%; p < 0.05). The increase in maximal binding was more prominent in the classical migraine group (+63%) than in the common migraine group (+43%). These results disagree with previous studies that reported decreased platelet imipramine binding in adult migraine patients. The discrepancy may be related to chronicity of drug treatment, long-term duration of disease and comorbidity of depression and anxiety disorders in adult migrainous patients.
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- A Weizman
- Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
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Davis BA, Boulton AA. The trace amines and their acidic metabolites in depression--an overview. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 1994; 18:17-45. [PMID: 8115671 DOI: 10.1016/0278-5846(94)90022-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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1. Investigations of the role of the trace amines (phenylethylamine, tryptamine, m- and p-tyramine) and their acidic metabolites (phenylacetic, indoleacetic, m- and p-hydroxyphenylacetic acids) in depression are reviewed. 2. The evidence for the phenylethylamine hypothesis of depression is mixed. 3. Reduced phenylacetic acid levels in urine, plasma and CSF and changes in those levels during treatment with antidepressants show potential as state markers for depression. 4. Impaired p-tyramine conjugation following a tyramine challenge may be a good trait marker for depression.
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- B A Davis
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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Hannah P, Cody D, Glover V, Adams D, Kumar R, Sandler M. The tyramine test is not a marker for postnatal depression: early postpartum euphoria may be. J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 1993; 14:295-304. [PMID: 8142983 DOI: 10.3109/01674829309084452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Abnormally low tyramine test values are known to be markers for vulnerability to unipolar, but not bipolar, endogenous depression. In the present study, 37 women with recent postnatal depression (25 major, 12 minor) and 22 puerperal controls with no depressive disorder, all assessed by Schedule for Affective Disorder and Schizophrenia (SADS-L) interview, together with 17 other controls, underwent the test. No significant differences in tyramine sulfate output were demonstrated between the different groups. Those subjects with endogenous features according to Newcastle score (n = 7) or Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) (n = 6) also had normal output. Thus, the tyramine test does not appear to be a useful marker for vulnerability to postnatal depression. Over half the subjects recalled that their postnatal depression had started in the first 2 weeks postpartum. Of the total of 62 postpartum subjects interviewed with the SADS-L, ten recalled a period of euphoria in the first postpartum week, which met RDC for hypomania and eight of them went on to become depressed postnatally. An additional patient from the total group was hospitalized with mania.
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- P Hannah
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, London
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Unipolar depression, alcoholism and suicide have become more common over the past decades. Genetic studies have attempted to link (bipolar) affective disorder to the short arm of chromosome 11 (where the loci for insulin, insulin growth factor (IGF), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and h-ras-oncogene are located) but these have failed. Since TH and the insulin receptor require phosphorylation by protein kinases, then a defect of the h-ras-oncogene or its products (p21) could disorder both these systems and compromise catecholaminergic transmission in neurones and energy flow in glial cells. This could lead not only to a predisposition to depression ('trait markers') but to neurotoxic damage, predisposed by inadequate cytosol Mg2+ levels of hypometabolism. Tyrosine, tryptophan and phenylalanine hydroxylases all require tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) which allosterically regulates its own activity as well as that of these enzymes. Anything which impairs this cofactor could lead to overt depression in predisposed individuals, and the heterocyclic amines are being increasingly implicated. These substances are derived from fried and broiled meats, azo food dyes, soft drinks and hard candies, but particularly from cigarette and petroleum fumes. The heterocyclic amines can inhibit aromatic-l-amino-acid-decarboxylase (AADC) as well as the hydroxylases reversibly, but BH4 is inhibited noncompetitively. Thus, susceptible individuals (those with inherited defective protein kinase phosphorylation) might be 'tipped over' by chronic exposure to these neurotoxins. The rising incidence of unipolar depression-associated morbidity could be significantly linked to increasing levels of heterocyclic amines in the developed nations.
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- J C Newman
- Shellharbour Hospital, Illawarra Area Health Service, NSW, Australia
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Aromaa M, Sillanpää M, Rautava P, Helenius H. Prevalence of frequent headache in young Finnish adults starting a family. Cephalalgia 1993; 13:330-7. [PMID: 8242726 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1993.1305330.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A questionnaire study on pre-pregnancy headache and its predictors was carried out in a representative sample of young adults expecting their first baby. The study was part of a major project on the competence of Finnish families. It included 1322 women and 1257 men, either married or cohabiting (in total, 1262 families), followed from their first contact with a maternity health care unit. A questionnaire was given separately to the women and men inquiring about their health and health behaviour, as well as about sociodemographic and psychosocial factors. The prevalence of frequent headache (at least one episode per month) was 34.3% in women, 19.3% in men and 47.1% in families. On multivariate analysis, after age-adjustment, the independent predictors of headache occurrence in women were depression, menstrual pain, responsibilities at work and psychosocial stress. The predictors in men were nervousness, psychosocial stress, lack of or irregular physical exercise and long-term disease, depression, responsibilities at work and insomnia.
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- M Aromaa
- Department of Child Neurology, University of Turku, Finland
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Moldin SO, Scheftner WA, Rice JP, Nelson E, Knesevich MA, Akiskal H. Association between major depressive disorder and physical illness. Psychol Med 1993; 23:755-761. [PMID: 8234581 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700025526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The association between major depressive disorder (MDD) and self-reported histories of specific physical illnesses was investigated in 320 controls and 1968 first-degree relatives and 254 spouses of probands in the NIMH Collaborative Depression study. The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime Version was used to assign Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) diagnoses and a structured self-report instrument was used to assess lifetime medical history. Lifetime MDD was diagnosed in 914 subjects, 402 of whom had been hospitalized or received somatic treatment ('treated' MDD). Strong associations were observed between MDD (either treated or untreated) and both frequent/severe headaches and migraine headaches. There was a marked gender effect such that the relative odds for a woman with treated MDD to report migraine were over 5:1. Other associations were found between MDD and skin infections, respiratory illness, ulcer, hypotension, and diabetes. This is the largest non-patient sample using standardized assessment of mental disorders by direct interview in which associations between specific physical illnesses and MDD have been demonstrated. Implications for clinical practice and neurobiological research in depression are discussed.
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- S O Moldin
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis 63110
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Aghabeigi B, Feinmann C, Glover V, Goodwin B, Hannah P, Harris M, Sandler M, Wasil M. Tyramine conjugation deficit in patients with chronic idiopathic temporomandibular joint and orofacial pain. Pain 1993; 54:159-163. [PMID: 8233529 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(93)90204-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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This study was carried out to explore the value of the tyramine conjugation test, an established trait marker for 'endogenous unipolar depression', in patients with chronic idiopathic temporomandibular joint and orofacial pain. Our results show that the pain patients excrete significantly lower amounts of tyramine sulphate than controls (P < 0.0004). Psychiatric assessment by the structured clinical interview for the diagnosis of mental disorders according to DSM-III-R revealed that 48% of the patients had a history of depression and 10% were currently depressed. However, the never-depressed group of patients had the lowest tyramine sulphate excretion values. These findings suggest that a common biological abnormality underlies the pathogenesis of both chronic idiopathic facial pain and depression.
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- Benham Aghabeigi
- Joint Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine, Eastman Dental and University College Hospitals, London WC1X 8LD UK Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London W6 OXG UK
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There is a considerable overlap in migraine and depression incidence, and both conditions may be associated with low levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). During a migraine attack there is evidence for low levels of platelet 5-HT and possibly also low Vmax for 5-HT uptake; both these findings are also associated with the depressed state. Both conditions can be treated by tricyclic and monoamine oxidase inhibiting antidepressants. However, there are also clear differences: migraine attacks are brief and self limiting. Part of the migraine cascade occurs outside the blood brain barrier, presumably involving blood vessels and, unlike depression, migraine attacks can be ameliorated by drugs which only act peripherally. In addition, migraine patients, especially males, often have permanently low levels of platelet monoamine oxidase activity, whereas patients with unipolar depression tend to have raised levels of this marker. This low enzyme activity may reflect part of the vulnerability to migraine, often associated in the prodromal phase with agitation or hyperactivity. Migraine may form part of a family of brief recurrent self-limiting disorders, which involve disturbances of both mood and monoamines; during the headache phase of the attack, the links with depression are most apparent.
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- V Glover
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, U.K
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1. There are major changes in progesterone, oestrogen, cortisol and beta-endorphin level associated with parturition, and as all these can be psychoactive it is likely that they contribute to the mood changes that can occur at this time. However evidence for their involvement is, at present, indirect. 2. Postnatal depression itself appears to be a heterogeneous condition with different times of onset, and it is probable that various biological and social factors play a role to a differing degree in different individuals. 3. About half of postnatal depression appears to arise in the first two weeks after childbirth. Some cases follow a period of early euphoria. 4. A different subgroup is associated with thyroid dysfunction, which peaks two to five months postpartum. 5. The tyramine test does not predict vulnerability to postnatal depression. 6. It is suggested that in future research the time course of onset of the depression, and the nature of the mood changes that occur in the first postpartum week, are investigated as possibly relevant variables.
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- V Glover
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, UK
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Breslau N, Davis GC. Migraine, major depression and panic disorder: a prospective epidemiologic study of young adults. Cephalalgia 1992; 12:85-90. [PMID: 1576649 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1992.1202085.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We examined prospectively the risk for major depression (MDD) and panic disorder in persons with prior history of migraine. A random sample of 995 young adults was interviewed in 1989 and reinterviewed in 1990. A history of migraine at baseline increased fourfold the risk for MDD during the follow-up interval. A history of any anxiety disorder exacerbated the risk for MDD in persons with migraine. Persons with a history of migraine were twelve times more likely to become cases of panic disorder than those with no history of migraine. The risk for MDD and/or panic disorder was unrelated to whether or not migraine was active during the year preceding the baseline interview or in remission for more than one year. The findings suggest that migraine, major depression and anxiety disorders might share common predispositions.
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- N Breslau
- Department of Psychiatry, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202-2689
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Jarman J. The tyramine conjugation test as a trait marker for endogenous unipolar depression and a predictor of treatment response. Mol Aspects Med 1992; 13:249-61. [PMID: 1435105 DOI: 10.1016/0098-2997(92)90012-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- J Jarman
- School of Life Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, U.K
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Hannah P, Jarman J, Glover V, Sandler M, Davies PT, Clifford Rose F. Kinetics of platelet 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake in headache patients. Cephalalgia 1991; 11:141-5. [PMID: 1889070 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1991.1103141.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Platelet 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) uptake was measured in asymptomatic headache patients attending a specialist migraine clinic, and in hospital staff who did not suffer from regular or severe headache. Current levels of anxiety and depression were assessed in all subjects using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale and their possible influence on the uptake kinetics taken into account during the analysis of results. The Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) was significantly raised in common migraine and tension headache compared with controls (p less than 0.001 and p less than 0.01, respectively), but not in classical migraine or cluster headache. The increase remained significant after adjusting for differences in age, sex, presence of anxiety or depression (HAD sub-scale score greater than or equal to 8), drug intake during the week before testing, time elapsed since last attack and time of assay (am or pm). No differences were observed between patients and controls in the maximal rate of uptake (Vmax) or platelet count, and previous reports of a reduction in Vmax in patients experiencing attack within 5 days prior to testing could not be confirmed. The cause and significance of an increased Km are not clear, but plasma factors acting as competitive inhibitors for the uptake site or an alteration in the configuration of the uptake site are possible explanations. If confirmed, the shared biochemical abnormality may suggest that common migraine and tension headache have a common pathogenesis.
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- P Hannah
- Bernhard Baron Memorial Research Laboratories, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London
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Jarman J, Davies PT, Fernandez M, Glover V, Steiner TJ, Rose FC, Sandler M. Platelet [3H]imipramine binding in migraine and tension headache in relation to depression. J Psychiatr Res 1991; 25:205-11. [PMID: 1663998 DOI: 10.1016/0022-3956(91)90025-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Platelet [3H]imipramine binding was measured in 40 migrainous (7 classical and 33 common) and 17 tension headache patients and in 28 normal controls. A significant reduction in Bmax was found in migraine compared with controls (p less than 0.05) but not in tension headache. In migraine, there was no significant relationship between Bmax and depression or anxiety score on the self-rating Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) Scale, suggesting that the reduction in Bmax is a concomitant of migraine itself rather than a manifestation of associated depression. Preliminary evaluation using the Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime Version (SADS-L) tended to confirm this conclusion.
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- J Jarman
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, U.K
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