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Daumit GL, Evins AE, Cather C, Dalcin AT, Dickerson FB, Miller ER, Appel LJ, Jerome GJ, McCann U, Ford DE, Charleston JB, Young DR, Gennusa JV, Goldsholl S, Cook C, Fink T, Wang NY. Effect of a Tobacco Cessation Intervention Incorporating Weight Management for Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry 2023; 80:895-904. [PMID: 37378972 PMCID: PMC10308301 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.1691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
Abstract
Importance Tobacco smoking drives markedly elevated cardiovascular disease risk and preventable death in persons with serious mental illness, and these risks are compounded by the high prevalence of overweight/obesity that smoking cessation can exacerbate. Guideline-concordant combined pharmacotherapy and behavioral smoking cessation treatment improves abstinence but is not routinely offered in community settings, particularly to those not seeking to quit smoking immediately. Objective To determine the effectiveness of an 18-month pharmacotherapy and behavioral smoking cessation intervention incorporating weight management and support for physical activity in adults with serious mental illness interested in quitting smoking within 1 or 6 months. Design, Setting, and Participants This was a randomized clinical trial conducted from July 25, 2016, to March 20, 2020, at 4 community health programs. Adults with serious mental illness who smoked tobacco daily were included in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to intervention or control, stratified by willingness to try to quit immediately (within 1 month) or within 6 months. Assessors were masked to group assignment. Interventions Pharmacotherapy, primarily varenicline, dual-form nicotine replacement, or their combination; tailored individual and group counseling for motivational enhancement; smoking cessation and relapse prevention; weight management counseling; and support for physical activity. Controls received quitline referrals. Main Outcome and Measures The primary outcome was biochemically validated, 7-day point-prevalence tobacco abstinence at 18 months. Results Of the 298 individuals screened for study inclusion, 192 enrolled (mean [SD] age, 49.6 [11.7] years; 97 women [50.5%]) and were randomly assigned to intervention (97 [50.5%]) or control (95 [49.5%]) groups. Participants self-identified with the following race and ethnicity categories: 93 Black or African American (48.4%), 6 Hispanic or Latino (3.1%), 90 White (46.9%), and 9 other (4.7%). A total of 82 participants (42.7%) had a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, 62 (32.3%) had bipolar disorder, and 48 (25.0%) had major depressive disorder; 119 participants (62%) reported interest in quitting immediately (within 1 month). Primary outcome data were collected in 183 participants (95.3%). At 18 months, 26.4% of participants (observed count, 27 of 97 [27.8%]) in the intervention group and 5.7% of participants (observed count, 6 of 95 [6.3%]) in the control group achieved abstinence (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 5.9; 95% CI, 2.3-15.4; P < .001). Readiness to quit within 1 month did not statistically significantly modify the intervention's effect on abstinence. The intervention group did not have significantly greater weight gain than the control group (mean weight change difference, 1.6 kg; 95% CI, -1.5 to 4.7 kg). Conclusions and Relevance Findings of this randomized clinical trial showed that in persons with serious mental illness who are interested in quitting smoking within 6 months, an 18-month intervention with first-line pharmacotherapy and tailored behavioral support for smoking cessation and weight management increased tobacco abstinence without significant weight gain. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02424188.
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- Gail L. Daumit
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- College of Health Professions, Towson University, Towson, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
- Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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Van Wert M, McVey K, Donohue T, Wasserstein T, Curry J, Goldstick Rosner N, Kimchi E, McCann U. Foam Rubber Pica and Cautopyreiophagia in a Highly Educated Woman: A Clinical Case Study. Clin Case Stud 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/15346501211014284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Pica, the developmentally and culturally-inappropriate eating of non-nutritive and non-food substances, is most often documented in people with developmental disabilities and children, frequently in institutional and residential settings. To date, there are no randomized clinical trials on pica-specific treatments, and very little literature is available regarding the characteristics or treatment of pica in adults with no intellectual or social deficits, and co-morbid disorders. This case study addresses this gap, and involves a highly educated 30 year-old American woman with foam rubber pica and burned match consumption (cautopyreiophagia) behaviors, along with co-morbid depressive, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, who received treatment in a general intensive outpatient program for adults in a large urban community psychiatry setting. The case study describes how the Biosocial Theory and Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change were used to conceptualize this woman’s symptoms and guide a treatment team of clinicians who did not specialize in pica. Providers in non-specialty clinic settings would benefit from reflecting on ways to adapt evidence-based techniques to the treatment of uncommon symptoms.
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- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Williams MS, Yanek L, Ziegelstein RC, McCann U, Faraday N. Racial differences in platelet serotonin polymorphisms in acute coronary syndrome. Thromb Res 2021; 200:115-120. [PMID: 33582601 DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2021.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Genetic differences between races have been hypothesized to contribute to differences in outcome from acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Our objective was to assess racial differences in genetic variations in the platelet serotonin transporter (5HTT) and receptor in patients with ACS. MATERIALS AND METHODS 127 consecutive patients, African Americans (AA) = 27; Caucasian (C) =100, admitted with ACS were evaluated for platelet function by serotonin (5HT) induced platelet activation. All patients were genotyped for two polymorphisms in the serotonin-transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) S/L and LG/LA and one polymorphism of the serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2A, T102C) gene. All patients were followed for major and minor adverse cardiac events at 12 months. RESULTS AA when compared to C had a lower prevalence of the HTTLPR S allele (21% vs 45%, p = 0.0003) and a higher prevalence of the LG allele (24% vs 4.5%, p = 0.0001). Allelic frequency of the 5-HT2A T102C allele was not significantly different between the races. Platelet activation was lower in AA compared to C, median EC50 5HT was 12.08 μg vs 2.14 μg (p = 0.001). The 5-HTTLPR and the 5-HT2A polymorphisms were not associated with platelet functional responses to serotonin. There were no significant differences in major or minor adverse cardiac events in patients with serotonin transporter or receptor polymorphisms. CONCLUSION We found a lower prevalence of the S allele and a higher prevalence of the G allele in AA with ACS. We also found decreased platelet activation in AA which did not correlate with serotonin-related platelet polymorphisms. It is unclear if other contributing factors may explain these platelet functional differences.
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- Marlene S Williams
- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States of America.
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesia, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States of America
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Daumit G, Evins AE, Cather C, Dalcin A, Dickerson F, Miller ER, Appel LJ, Jerome GJ, McCann U, Charleston J, Young D, Gennusa J, Goldsholl S, COOK COURTNEY, Fink T, Wang NY. Abstract 16363: An 18-month Smoking Cessation Intervention Incorporating Pharmacotherapy and Behavioral Counseling Improves Tobacco Abstinence Rates in Adult Smokers With Serious Mental Illness (smi) in Community Mental Health Settings: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Circulation 2020. [DOI: 10.1161/circ.142.suppl_3.16363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Introduction:
Tobacco smoking is the largest contributor to markedly elevated CVD and preventable death in persons with SMI. Trials of combined pharmacologic and behavioral treatments improve abstinence rates, but have targeted those ready to quit right away, and evidence-based treatments are rarely used in the community. Weight gain often accompanies abstinence. Our objective was to determine the effectiveness of an 18m smoking cessation pharmacotherapy and behavioral counseling intervention incorporating weight management and physical activity in persons with SMI.
Hypothesis:
The active intervention is more effective than control in achieving biochemically validated, 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence at 18m.
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We conducted an RCT in 4 community mental health settings in 192 smokers with SMI, stratified by readiness to quit within 30d or in 1 to 6m. The active intervention group was offered 18m of 1
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Mean(SD) age was 49.6(11.7); cigarettes/day 12.1(9.5); BMI 32.0(7.6) kg/m
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Conclusions:
Offering 18m of evidence-based cessation treatment in the community substantially increased smoking abstinence without significant weight gain in SMI. Implementing best practice guidelines to treat all smokers regardless of readiness to quit should improve CVD health in this high-risk population.
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- Dept of Rsch and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA
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Rao V, Bechtold K, McCann U, Roy D, Peters M, Vaishnavi S, Yousem D, Mori S, Yan H, Leoutsakos J, Tibbs M, Reti I. Low-Frequency Right Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Pilot Study. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2020; 31:306-318. [PMID: 31018810 DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.17110338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Major depression is the most common psychiatric sequela of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but effective treatment continues to be a challenge, with few studies providing guidance. METHODS In a pilot study, the authors evaluated the effect size of low-frequency right-sided (LFR) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), compared with sham treatment, over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in patients (N=30) with TBI depression and co-occurring neuropsychiatric symptoms, including suicidal thoughts, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, sleep disturbance, behavioral problems, and cognitive dysfunction. Exploratory analyses of diffusion tensor imaging pre- and postintervention were performed to determine the effect size of LFR rTMS on white matter integrity. RESULTS Small (Hedge's g=0.19) and highly variable effects of LRF rTMS over right DLPFC in TBI depression were observed. Similarly, the effect of LFR rTMS for treatment of comorbid neuropsychiatric symptoms varied from small to moderate. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that the observed effects of LFR rTMS over the right DLPFC in TBI depression and co-occurring neuropsychiatric symptoms are small, at best, and, preliminarily, that low-frequency right DLPFC stimulation has limited potential in this patient population. However, studies employing different rTMS parameters (e.g., type, location, frequency, duration) or other participant characteristics (e.g., TBI severity, chronicity, comorbidity, concurrent treatment) may potentially yield different responses.
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- Vani Rao
- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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- From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Rao, McCann, Roy, Peters, Yan, Leoutsakos, Tibbs, Reti); the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Bechtold); the Neuropsychiatric Clinic at Carolina Partners and Departments of Community and Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. (Vaishnavi); and the Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (Mori, Yousem)
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There are limited data regarding the incidence of pathological laughter and crying (PLC) after traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study aimed to identify the occurrence of PLC in the first year after TBI and to determine whether there is a relationship between PLC and other clinical features or demographics. Subjects who sustained a first-time TBI were recruited from acute trauma units and were assessed at 3, 6, and 12 months after TBI. Rates of PLC at 3, 6, and 12 months after TBI were 21.4%, 17.5%, and 15.5%, respectively. Patients with PLC had higher percentages of psychiatric diagnoses, including personality changes, depressive disorders, and mood disorders secondary to a general medical condition, as well as higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder. Univariate logistic and linear regression analyses indicated a significant association between PLC and scores on the Clinical Anxiety Scale 3 months after TBI and on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 12 months after TBI. Individuals who have PLC during the first year after TBI are more likely to have any psychiatric diagnosis as well as higher rates of mood and anxiety symptoms. In addition, PLC in the early TBI period may serve as a predictor of depression and anxiety symptoms at 12 months after TBI.
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- Durga Roy
- From the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- From the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To determine whether sleep disturbance in the acute post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) period predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety or apathy measured 6 and 12 months after TBI. RESEARCH DESIGN Longitudinal, observational study. METHODS AND PROCEDURES First time closed-head injury patients (n = 101) were recruited and evaluated within 3 months of injury and followed longitudinally, with psychiatric evaluations at 6 and 12 months post-injury. Pre- and post-injury sleep disturbances were measured via the Medical Outcome Scale (MOS) for Sleep. Subjects were also assessed for anxiety, depression, apathy, medical comorbidity and severity of TBI. MAIN OUTCOMES AND RESULTS Sleep disturbance in the acute TBI period was associated with increased symptoms of depression, anxiety and apathy 12 months post-injury. CONCLUSIONS Sleep disturbances experienced soon after trauma (i.e. <3 months after injury) predicted neuropsychiatric symptoms 1 year after injury, raising two important clinical questions: (1) Is sleep disturbance soon after trauma a prognostic marker of subsequent neuropsychiatric symptoms? and (2) Can early treatment of sleep disturbance during the post-TBI period reduce subsequent development of neuropsychiatric symptoms? Future studies with larger sample sizes and appropriate control groups could help to answer these questions, using evidence-based methods for evaluating and treating sleep disturbances.
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- Vani Rao
- Division of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry and
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Rao V, McCann U, Bergey A, Han D, Brandt J, Schretlen DJ. Correlates of Apathy During the First Year After Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychosomatics 2013; 54:403-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2012] [Accepted: 12/31/2012] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Griffiths RR, Johnson MW, Richards WA, Richards BD, McCann U, Jesse R. Psilocybin occasioned mystical-type experiences: immediate and persisting dose-related effects. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2011; 218:649-65. [PMID: 21674151 PMCID: PMC3308357 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2358-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 439] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2011] [Accepted: 05/13/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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RATIONALE This dose-effect study extends previous observations showing that psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having persisting positive effects on attitudes, mood, and behavior. OBJECTIVES This double-blind study evaluated psilocybin (0, 5, 10, 20, 30 mg/70 kg, p.o.) administered under supportive conditions. METHODS Participants were 18 adults (17 hallucinogen-naïve). Five 8-h sessions were conducted individually for each participant at 1-month intervals. Participants were randomized to receive the four active doses in either ascending or descending order (nine participants each). Placebo was scheduled quasi-randomly. During sessions, volunteers used eyeshades and were instructed to direct their attention inward. Volunteers completed questionnaires assessing effects immediately after and 1 month after each session, and at 14 months follow-up. RESULTS Psilocybin produced acute perceptual and subjective effects including, at 20 and/or 30 mg/70 kg, extreme anxiety/fear (39% of volunteers) and/or mystical-type experience (72% of volunteers). One month after sessions at the two highest doses, volunteers rated the psilocybin experience as having substantial personal and spiritual significance, and attributed to the experience sustained positive changes in attitudes, mood, and behavior, with the ascending dose sequence showing greater positive effects. At 14 months, ratings were undiminished and were consistent with changes rated by community observers. Both the acute and persisting effects of psilocybin were generally a monotonically increasing function of dose, with the lowest dose showing significant effects. CONCLUSIONS Under supportive conditions, 20 and 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin occasioned mystical-type experiences having persisting positive effects on attitudes, mood, and behavior. Implications for therapeutic trials are discussed.
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- Roland R Griffiths
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224-6823, USA.
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a complex entity with no known objective diagnostic markers. To test the hypothesis that sleep disturbances in the acute mTBI period can serve as an indicator of brain injury, the authors compared sleep polysomnograms (PSG) and sleep EEG power spectra (PS) data in seven mTBI subjects with seven age- and race-matched healthy-control subjects. The two groups differed significantly on PS measures, suggesting that mTBI can result in a disruption of sleep microarchitecture and, in theory, could be of use as a marker for brain injury. These pilot findings need to be replicated on larger samples.
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- Vani Rao
- Division of Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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McLane MW, McCann U, Ricaurte G. Identifying the serotonin transporter signal in Western blot studies of the neurotoxic potential of MDMA and related drugs. Synapse 2011; 65:1368-72. [PMID: 21633976 DOI: 10.1002/syn.20958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A number of published studies have questioned the serotonin neurotoxic potential of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") and related drugs (fenfluramine, p-chloroamphetamine) based upon results from Western blot studies using a custom synthesized serotonin transporter (SERT) antibody that found no reduction in the abundance of a 50kDa protein after substituted amphetamine treatment. The purpose of this study was to collect Western blot data using the same SERT antibody used in those studies, but with positive and negative controls to identify the SERT protein signal. A 63-68 kDa band that had the regional distribution expected of rat brain SERT, was decreased by 5,7-DHT, and was absent in SERT KO animals was identified as the SERT protein. Significant, lasting decreases in the abundance of the 63-68 kDa band were evident in the rat brain after treatment with MDMA and related drugs (FEN, PCA). Thus, when the band corresponding to the SERT protein is identified in Western blots through the use of positive and negative controls, reduced abundance of the SERT protein can be readily demonstrated after substituted amphetamine treatment. These data provide further evidence of lasting loss of the SERT protein after exposure to MDMA and other substituted amphetamines.
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- Michael W McLane
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Neudörffer A, Mueller M, Martinez CM, Mechan A, McCann U, Ricaurte GA, Largeron M. Synthesis and neurotoxicity profile of 2,4,5-trihydroxymethamphetamine and its 6-(N-acetylcystein-S-yl) conjugate. Chem Res Toxicol 2011; 24:968-78. [PMID: 21557581 DOI: 10.1021/tx2001459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The purpose of the present study was to determine if trihydroxymethamphetamine (THMA), a metabolite of methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy"), or its thioether conjugate, 6-(N-acetylcystein-S-yl)-2,4,5-trihydroxymethamphetamine (6-NAC-THMA), play a role in the lasting effects of MDMA on brain serotonin (5-HT) neurons. To this end, novel high-yield syntheses of THMA and 6-NAC-THMA were developed. Lasting effects of both compounds on brain serotonin (5-HT) neuronal markers were then examined. A single intraventricular injection of THMA produced a significant lasting depletion of regional rat brain 5-HT and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), consistent with previous reports that THMA harbors 5-HT neurotoxic potential. The lasting effect of THMA on brain 5-HT markers was blocked by the 5-HT uptake inhibitor fluoxetine, indicating that persistent effects of THMA on 5-HT markers, like those of MDMA, are dependent on intact 5-HT transporter function. Efforts to identify THMA in the brains of animals treated with a high, neurotoxic dose (80 mg/kg) of MDMA were unsuccessful. Inability to identify THMA in the brains of these animals was not related to the unstable nature of the THMA molecule because exogenous THMA administered intracerebroventricularly could be readily detected in the rat brain for several hours. The thioether conjugate of THMA, 6-NAC-THMA, led to no detectable lasting alterations of cortical 5-HT or 5-HIAA levels, indicating that it lacks significant 5-HT neurotoxic activity. The present results cast doubt on the role of either THMA or 6-NAC-THMA in the lasting serotonergic effects of MDMA. The possibility remains that different conjugated forms of THMA or oxidized cyclic forms (e.g., the indole of THMA) play a role in MDMA-induced 5-HT neurotoxicity in vivo.
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- Anne Neudörffer
- UMR 8638 CNRS-Université Paris Descartes, Synthèse et Structure de Molécules d'Intérêt Pharmacologique, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, 4 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75270 Paris cedex 06, France
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Fauerbach JA, Lawrence JW, Fogel J, Richter L, Magyar-Russell G, McKibben JBA, McCann U. Approach-avoidance coping conflict in a sample of burn patients at risk for posttraumatic stress disorder. Depress Anxiety 2009; 26:838-50. [PMID: 19170120 DOI: 10.1002/da.20439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Following an acute burn injury, higher distress is consistently observed among individuals exhibiting a conflict between approach coping (e.g., processing) and avoidance coping (e.g., suppression) relative to those individuals who use only one of these methods. Study objectives were to determine if contradictory coping messages would lead to such approach-avoidance coping conflict and to determine if experiment-induced coping conflict is also associated with higher distress. METHODS Participants (n=59 adults hospitalized with acute burn injuries) were assigned randomly to experimental conditions differing in the order in which training was provided in two ways of coping with posttrauma re-experiencing symptoms (i.e., process-then-suppress versus suppress-then-process). The primary dependent variable was coping behavior during the 24-hr posttraining period. Coping behavior was categorized as approach coping (processing), avoidance coping (suppressing), or approach-avoidance coping conflict (both) on the basis of median splits on subscales assessing these behaviors. Secondary analyses examined the relationship between this experiment-induced coping conflict and re-experiencing symptoms. RESULTS Results indicated that participants in the process-then-suppress condition, relative to the suppress-then-process condition, were significantly more likely to exhibit approach-avoidance coping conflict (i.e., above median split on both processing and suppressing) during the next 24 hr. Furthermore, approach-avoidance coping conflict was associated with greater re-experiencing symptoms assessed via self-report and by blinded coding of recorded speech. CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that the order of coping skill training can influence treatment outcome, success of coping methods, and overall levels of distress. therefore, training in stabilizing and calming methods should precede training in active processing following stressful life events.
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- James A Fauerbach
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Osuch EA, Benson BE, Luckenbaugh DA, Geraci M, Post RM, McCann U. Repetitive TMS combined with exposure therapy for PTSD: a preliminary study. J Anxiety Disord 2009; 23:54-9. [PMID: 18455908 PMCID: PMC2693184 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2007] [Revised: 03/18/2008] [Accepted: 03/19/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Treatment for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) includes exposure therapy and medications, but some patients are refractory. Few studies of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for anxiety or PTSD exist. In this preliminary report, rTMS was combined with exposure therapy for PTSD. Nine subjects with chronic, treatment-refractory PTSD were studied in a placebo-controlled, crossover design of imaginal exposure therapy with rTMS (1Hz) versus sham. PTSD symptoms, serum and 24h urine were obtained and analyzed. Effect sizes for PTSD symptoms were determined using Cohen's d. Active rTMS showed a larger effect size of improvement for hyperarousal symptoms compared to sham; 24-h urinary norepinephrine and serum T4 increased; serum prolactin decreased. Active rTMS with exposure may have symptomatic and physiological effects. Larger studies are needed to confirm these preliminary findings and verify whether rTMS plus exposure therapy has a role in the treatment of PTSD.
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- Elizabeth A. Osuch
- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland,Address Correspondence and Reprint requests to: Elizabeth A. Osuch, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, 339 Windermere Road, London, ON N6A 4G5, Canada, Phone#: 519-685-8500 ext. 32165, Fax#: 519-663-3935, e-mail:
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- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Clinical Center Nursing Department; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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McLane MW, Hatzidimitriou G, Yuan J, McCann U, Ricaurte G. Heating induces aggregation and decreases detection of serotonin transporter protein on western blots. Synapse 2007; 61:875-6. [PMID: 17623834 DOI: 10.1002/syn.20438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of Western blot analysis to monitor changes in the abundance of the serotonin transporter (SERT) protein. In the Western blot procedure, heat denaturation is a common, early step. We now report that heating samples to 90 degrees C decreases the abundance of the SERT protein band and causes dispersion of a majority of the SERT signal to a high molecular weight smear. These observations are in keeping with the fact that heating can influence the electrophoretic behavior of some proteins. By omitting the heat denaturation step in the Western blot procedure, better detection of the SERT protein is achieved.
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- Michael W McLane
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Xie T, Tong L, McLane MW, Hatzidimitriou G, Yuan J, McCann U, Ricaurte G. Loss of serotonin transporter protein after MDMA and other ring-substituted amphetamines. Neuropsychopharmacology 2006; 31:2639-51. [PMID: 16452989 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We studied in vivo expression of the serotonin transporter (SERT) protein after 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), p-chloroamphetamine (PCA), or fenfluramine (FEN) treatments, and compared the effects of substituted amphetamines to those of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT), an established serotonin (5-HT) neurotoxin. All drug treatments produced lasting reductions in 5-HT, 5-HIAA, and [(3)H]paroxetine binding, but no significant change in the density of a 70 kDa band initially thought to correspond to the SERT protein. Additional Western blot studies, however, showed that the 70 kDa band did not correspond to the SERT protein, and that a diffuse band at 63-68 kDa, one that had the anticipated regional brain distribution of SERT protein (midbrain>striatum>neocortex>cerebellum), was reduced after 5,7-DHT and was absent in SERT-null animals, was decreased after MDMA, PCA, or FEN treatments. In situ immunocytochemical (ICC) studies with the same two SERT antisera used in Western blot studies showed loss of SERT-immunoreactive (IR) axons after 5,7-DHT and MDMA treatments. In the same animals, tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH)-IR axon density was comparably reduced, indicating that serotonergic deficits after substituted amphetamines differ from those in SERT-null animals, which have normal TPH levels but, in the absence of SERT, develop apparent neuroadaptive changes in 5-HT metabolism. Together, these results suggest that lasting serotonergic deficits after MDMA and related drugs are unlikely to represent neuroadaptive metabolic responses to changes in SERT trafficking, and favor the view that substituted amphetamines have the potential to produce a distal axotomy of brain 5-HT neurons.
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- Tao Xie
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Griffiths RR, Richards WA, McCann U, Jesse R. Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2006; 187:268-83; discussion 284-92. [PMID: 16826400 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 668] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2006] [Accepted: 05/27/2006] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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RATIONALE Although psilocybin has been used for centuries for religious purposes, little is known scientifically about its acute and persisting effects. OBJECTIVES This double-blind study evaluated the acute and longer-term psychological effects of a high dose of psilocybin relative to a comparison compound administered under comfortable, supportive conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS The participants were hallucinogen-naïve adults reporting regular participation in religious or spiritual activities. Two or three sessions were conducted at 2-month intervals. Thirty volunteers received orally administered psilocybin (30 mg/70 kg) and methylphenidate hydrochloride (40 mg/70 kg) in counterbalanced order. To obscure the study design, six additional volunteers received methylphenidate in the first two sessions and unblinded psilocybin in a third session. The 8-h sessions were conducted individually. Volunteers were encouraged to close their eyes and direct their attention inward. Study monitors rated volunteers' behavior during sessions. Volunteers completed questionnaires assessing drug effects and mystical experience immediately after and 2 months after sessions. Community observers rated changes in the volunteer's attitudes and behavior. RESULTS Psilocybin produced a range of acute perceptual changes, subjective experiences, and labile moods including anxiety. Psilocybin also increased measures of mystical experience. At 2 months, the volunteers rated the psilocybin experience as having substantial personal meaning and spiritual significance and attributed to the experience sustained positive changes in attitudes and behavior consistent with changes rated by community observers. CONCLUSIONS When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences similar to spontaneously occurring mystical experiences. The ability to occasion such experiences prospectively will allow rigorous scientific investigations of their causes and consequences.
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- R R Griffiths
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510, Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224-6823, USA.
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Hiroto K, Kumar A, Brasic J, Alexander M, Ye W, McCaul M, Wand G, Earley C, Richard A, McCann U, Ricaurte G, Wong D. Dopamin receptors, transporters, and amphetamine-induced release in late middle life. Neuroimage 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Yuan J, Hatzidimitriou G, Suthar P, Mueller M, McCann U, Ricaurte G. Relationship between temperature, dopaminergic neurotoxicity, and plasma drug concentrations in methamphetamine-treated squirrel monkeys. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2005; 316:1210-8. [PMID: 16293712 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.105.096503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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To examine the relationship between temperature (ambient and core), dopaminergic neurotoxicity, and plasma drug [methamphetamine (METH)] and metabolite [amphetamine (AMPH)] concentrations, two separate groups of squirrel monkeys (n = 4-5 per group) were treated with METH (1.25 mg/kg, given twice, 4 h apart) or vehicle (same schedule) at two different ambient temperatures (26 and 33 degrees C). Core temperatures and plasma drug concentrations were measured during the period of drug exposure; striatal monoaminergic neuronal markers in the same monkeys were determined 1 week later. At the temperature range examined, the higher ambient temperature did not significantly enhance METH-induced hyperthermia or METH-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity, although there were trends toward increases. Acute METH-induced increases in core temperature correlated highly and directly with subsequent decreases in striatal dopaminergic markers. Squirrel monkeys with the greatest increases in core temperature (and largest dopaminergic deficits) had the highest plasma drug metabolite (AMPH) concentrations. There was substantial interanimal variability, both with regard to elevations in core temperature and plasma drug concentrations. Pharmacokinetic studies in six additional squirrel monkeys revealed comparable individual differences in METH metabolism. These results, which provide the first available data on the within-subject relationship between temperature (ambient and core), plasma concentrations of METH (and AMPH), and subsequent dopaminergic neurotoxic changes, suggest that, as in rodents, core temperature can influence METH neurotoxicity in primates. In addition, they suggest that interanimal differences presently observed in thermal and neurotoxic responses to METH may be related to individual differences in drug metabolism.
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- Jie Yuan
- Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Ziegelstein RC, Kim SY, Kao D, Fauerbach JA, Thombs BD, McCann U, Colburn J, Bush DE. Can doctors and nurses recognize depression in patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction in the absence of formal screening? Psychosom Med 2005; 67:393-7. [PMID: 15911901 DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000160475.38930.8d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the ability of cardiovascular healthcare workers to assess the presence or absence of symptoms of depression in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the absence of formal screening. METHODS Patients admitted with AMI underwent screening using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) administered by a research assistant. The cardiovascular nurse, medicine resident or intern, and attending cardiologist caring for the patient were then approached (blinded to the BDI results) and asked to assess, using a visual analog scale, whether the patient had symptoms that would warrant further evaluation for depression. RESULTS BDI screening and at least one provider assessment were completed for 60 patients with AMI. A total of 18 of 60 patients (30.0%) had a BDI score of > or =10. Symptoms of depression were considered not present in 24 of 32 patient assessments when the BDI was > or =10 (75% false-negatives). The mean BDI score of patients assessed as depressed by at least one provider (6.7 +/- 6.3) was no different from the mean BDI score of patients assessed as not depressed (7.5 +/- 7.2, p = .67). Overall, there was little correlation between BDI scores and provider assessments, and this was not influenced by provider type or provider gender. CONCLUSIONS Cardiovascular nurses and medicine residents and interns underrecognize depression in patients with AMI in the absence of formal screening. Formal screening for symptoms of depression should be considered part of routine AMI care.
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- Roy C Ziegelstein
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Smith MT, Perlis ML, Chengazi VU, Soeffing J, McCann U. NREM sleep cerebral blood flow before and after behavior therapy for chronic primary insomnia: preliminary single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) data. Sleep Med 2005; 6:93-4. [PMID: 15680307 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2004.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2004] [Revised: 10/12/2004] [Accepted: 10/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kerenyi L, Ricaurte GA, Schretlen DJ, McCann U, Varga J, Mathews WB, Ravert HT, Dannals RF, Hilton J, Wong DF, Szabo Z. Positron emission tomography of striatal serotonin transporters in Parkinson disease. Arch Neurol 2003; 60:1223-9. [PMID: 12975287 DOI: 10.1001/archneur.60.9.1223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about serotonin neurons in Parkinson disease (PD). OBJECTIVE To study the serotonin system in PD with positron emission tomography, using the serotonin transporter radioligand [11C](+)McN5652. DESIGN AND PATIENTS We measured the density of the serotonin transporter and the density of [11C]WIN35,428-labeled dopamine transporters in the striatum of 13 adults with PD and 13 age- and sex-matched controls. To assess the effects of possible differences in blood flow or brain atrophy, we also measured regional cerebral blood flow and the size of the regions of interest for the caudate nucleus and putamen. RESULTS Patients with PD showed reductions in the specific distribution volumes of [11C](+)McN5652 in the caudate (P<.01) and putamen (P<.01), along with the expected reductions in striatal [11C]WIN35,428 binding (P<.01). There were no reductions in regional cerebral blood flow or the sizes of the regions of interest, mitigating against potential confounding effects of blood flow, brain atrophy, or partial volume effects. Reductions in serotonin transporter binding correlated with ratings of disease staging. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the density of serotonin transporters, like that of dopamine transporters, is reduced in the striatum of patients with PD and that these changes are related to disease stage.
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McCann U, Stotland N. Toward optimal health: the experts provide a current perspective on anxiety in women. Interview by Jodi Godfrey Meisler. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2003; 12:443-7. [PMID: 12869291 DOI: 10.1089/154099903766651568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nieman G, Searles B, Carney D, McCann U, Schiller H, Lutz C, Finck C, Gatto LA, Hodell M, Picone A. Systemic inflammation induced by cardiopulmonary bypass: a review of pathogenesis and treatment. J Extra Corpor Technol 1999; 31:202-10. [PMID: 10915478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe alteration in lung structure and function that develops secondary to a traumatic stimulus. When ARDS develops following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) it is know as postpump syndrome (PPS). ARDS can be caused by a single massive insult ("hit"); however, sequential minor insults ("hits") are more common clinically. The concept of multiple sequential insults causing ARDS has been termed the "two-hit" model of ARDS. The purpose of this article is to summarize our studies testing the hypothesis that PPS is caused by multiple sequential insults. To confirm our hypothesis, we developed a porcine model of "two-hit" PPS. Our model was composed of sequential benign insults, with CPB as the "first hit" and low dose of endotoxin as the "second-hit." It is our hypothesis that the mechanism of PPS is CPB-induced priming of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) ("first-hit") with subsequent PMN activation by a second insult ("second-hit") such as endotoxin. Our model confirms this clinically relevant postulate, and we provide strategies to disrupt the inflammatory cascade leading to PPS.
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- G Nieman
- SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, Department of Surgery 13210, USA
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Benjamin J, Geraci M, McCann U, Greenberg BD, Murphy DL. Attenuated response to m-CPP and to pentagastrin after repeated m-CPP in panic disorder. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1999; 143:215-6. [PMID: 10326785 DOI: 10.1007/s002130050938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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To further evaluate the dopamine (DA) neurotoxic potential of the widely prescribed psychostimulant, methylphenidate, mice were treated with various doses (range: 10-120 mg/kg) and treatment schedules of methylphenidate (every 2 h x 4 or twice daily x 4). Higher doses of methylphenidate produced intense stereotypy, as well as short- (5-day), but not long- (2-week), term depletions of striatal DA axonal markers. By contrast, amphetamine caused not only intense stereotypy, but also profound, long-lasting, dose-related DA deficits. These findings indicate that results of studies of amphetamine neurotoxicity using short (5-day) post-drug survival periods are potentially misleading. Further, the present findings confirm and extend previous results indicating that methylphenidate, unlike amphetamine, lacks DA neurotoxic potential, and strongly suggest that DA efflux, although perhaps necessary, is not sufficient for the expression of amphetamine-induced DA neurotoxicity.
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- J Yuan
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Post RM, Weiss SR, Smith M, Li H, McCann U. Kindling versus quenching. Implications for the evolution and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 821:285-95. [PMID: 9238212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48287.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- R M Post
- Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1272, USA
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Post RM, Kimbrell TA, McCann U, Dunn RT, George MS, Weiss SR. [Are convulsions necessary for the antidepressive effect of electroconvulsive therapy: outcome of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation]. Encephale 1997; 23 Spec No 3:27-35. [PMID: 9333558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Sismotherapy (ST) brings about numerous neurobiological changes, particularly changes in neuromediators and their receptors, second messengers, neuropeptides and neurotropic factors, a number of which are hypothesized to play a role in the pathophysiology or therapeutics of affective disorders (M. Fink). What is not yet known is which of these mechanisms is crucial for the psychotropic and anticonvulsant effects of ST. However, it is clear that the effects of ST tend to be relatively acute, and do not attack the deep-seated abnormalities that are the underlying causes of recurrences of affective disorders. This is corroborated by the fact that in animals, most of the effects of ECS on catecholamines and their receptors (and on receptors for benzodiazepines or neuropeptides such as TRH) tend to be relatively transient, and in most cases have been found to represent compensatory adaptations to the induced motor convulsions. However, recent preclinical data using attenuation, and clinical findings using reiterated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), suggest that it may not be necessary to provoke a clonic convulsion in order to achieve the beneficial psychotropic and anticonvulsant effects of ST. In rodents receiving stimulation to the cerebellar tonsil, seven daily subacute low-frequency sessions (stimulation at 1 Hz for 15 minutes) produced clear improvement in clonic convulsions and in post-discharge thresholds, together with durable inhibition of convulsions when stimulation was resumed (Weiss et al., 1995). Stimulation at 1 Hz for 15 minutes was more effective than stimulation at 10 or 20 Hz in attenuating convulsions. Although reiterated ECS also induced an anti-triggering effect, this dissipated rapidly over five days (Post et al., 1984). It is of great interest that recent publications have shown that rTMS at 10 or 20 Hz to the left frontal cortex, administered to patients suffering from refractory depression (George et al., 1995) or to patients (hospitalised or not) with milder degrees of depression (Pasquale-Leon et al., 1996), had a moderate or marked antidepressant effect. In these studies, rTMS showed few unwanted effects (other than mild pain in some patients, due to contraction of the temporal muscles); it did not induce motor convulsions, and did not, as such, appear to be associated with the memory loss described in subjective accounts or in preliminary neuropsychological tests (Little and Kimbrell et al., 1996). The optimal frequencies, durations and positions for rTMS to maximise its antidepressant effect still remain to be determined. However, the first controlled and open studies have tended to show that (because of the capacity of rapid magnetic fluxes to produce sub-convulsant electrical discharges that are relatively localised in the brain), rTMS may be found to be a clinically useful antidepressant model. This would suggest the possibility that some of the neurochemical changes induced by the clonic convulsions of ECS could be directly induced by stimulation at the very edge of the threshold (but still below it); this would open up the hope that one day these endogenous neurochemical processes could be identified and exploited in an optimal way for therapeutic purposes.
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- R M Post
- NIMH, Bethesda MD 20892-1272, USA
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McCann U, Hatzidimitriou G, Ridenour A, Fischer C, Yuan J, Katz J, Ricaurte G. Dexfenfluramine and serotonin neurotoxicity: further preclinical evidence that clinical caution is indicated. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1994; 269:792-8. [PMID: 7514223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Dexfenfluramine, a drug used as an appetite suppressant in Europe, is currently under evaluation for approval in the United States. Studies in animals indicate that dexfenfluramine damages brain serotonin neurons, but have been challenged by some because of questions regarding their relevance to humans. The present studies were designed to address the three most salient questions regarding the applicability of preclinical dexfenfluramine neurotoxicity data to humans. Specifically, the present studies sought to determine: 1) whether dexfenfluramine's effects on brain serotonin neurons are transient and related to its therapeutic actions; 2) whether the p.o. route of administration affords protection against dexfenfluramine neurotoxicity; and 3) whether the mouse, an animal thought to best approximate the human with regard to dexfenfluramine metabolism, is sensitive to dexfenfluramine's neurotoxic action. Results from the present study indicate that monkeys continue to show large serotonergic deficits as long as 12 to 17 months after dexfenfluramine treatment, suggesting that dexfenfluramine's effects in nonhuman primates are persistent and unlikely to be related to its therapeutic actions. Furthermore, the present results indicate that the p.o. route of administration affords little or no protection against dexfenfluramine neurotoxicity. Finally, mice, like all other animals tested to date, were found to be susceptible to dexfenfluramine neurotoxicity. Taken together, these findings indicate that concern over possible dexfenfluramine neurotoxicity in humans is warranted, and that physicians and patients alike need to be aware of dexfenfluramine's toxic potential toward brain serotonin neurons.
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- U McCann
- Section on Anxiety and Affective Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Kamimori GH, Penetar DM, Thorne DA, McCann U. 1198 EFFECT OF CAFFEINE ON COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE, HOOD, & CATECHOLAMINE RESPONSE IN SLEEP DEPRIVED MALES. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1994. [DOI: 10.1249/00005768-199405001-01200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Penetar D, McCann U, Thorne D, Kamimori G, Galinski C, Sing H, Thomas M, Belenky G. Caffeine reversal of sleep deprivation effects on alertness and mood. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1993; 112:359-65. [PMID: 7871042 DOI: 10.1007/bf02244933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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This study assessed the ability of high doses of caffeine to reverse changes in alertness and mood produced by prolonged sleep deprivation. Fifty healthy, nonsmoking males between the ages of 18 and 32 served as volunteers. Following 49 h without sleep, caffeine (0, 150, 300, or 600 mg/70 kg, PO) was administered in a double-blind fashion. Measures of alertness were obtained with sleep onset tests, the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS), and Visual Analog Scales (VAS). Sleep deprivation decreased onset to sleep from a rested average of 19.9 min to 7 min. Following the highest dose of caffeine tested, sleep onset averaged just over 10 min; sleep onset for the placebo group averaged 5 min. Scores on the SSS increased from a rested mean of 1.6-4.8 after sleep deprivation. Caffeine reduced this score to near rested values. Caffeine reversed sleep deprivation-induced changes in three subscales of the POMS (vigor, fatigue, and confusion) and produced values close to fully rested conditions on several VAS. Serum caffeine concentrations peaked 90 min after ingestion and remained elevated for 12 h. This study showed that caffeine was able to produce significant alerting and long-lasting beneficial mood effects in individuals deprived of sleep for 48 h.
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- D Penetar
- Department of Behavioral Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100
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Fifty healthy male subjects were administered zolpidem (5, 10, or 20 mg), triazolam (0.5 mg) or placebo, then attempted to sleep in a non-sleep-conducive environment. Subjects were awakened at 90 min post-drug (near peak blood concentration for both drugs) and tested on several cognitive tasks, including Two Column Addition, Logical Reasoning, and a Simulated Escape Task. This was followed by a second, 3.5-h sleep period. Hypnotic efficacy of the 20 mg zolpidem (Z-20) dose was similar to that of the 0.5 mg triazolam (TRIAZ) dose, as indicated by comparably shortened sleep latencies and lengthened total sleep times. Though accuracy on most performance measures was not affected by either drug, a reduction in speed of responding on logical reasoning and addition tasks was evident for the TRIAZ group at 90 min post-drug (Ps less than 0.05). On the simulated escape task, only triazolam significantly increased the mean number of errors, and interfered with subsequent memory of the task. Thus, zolpidem had milder effects on performance than triazolam. However, 60% of the Z-20 subjects experienced mild, adverse physical reactions. Performance differences between somnogenically comparable doses of zolpidem and triazolam may be due to their differential affinities for the BZ1 and BZ2 receptor subtypes.
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- T J Balkin
- Department of Behavioral Biology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100
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McCann U, Landes E. [Norwegian scabies]. Z Hautkr 1975; 50:473-6. [PMID: 1229226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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