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Ir J Psychol Med ; : 1-14, 2021 Aug 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34353408

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OBJECTIVES: As Ireland confronts the many challenges of broadening the introduction of early intervention services (EIS) for first episode psychosis (FEP) as national policy, this article describes Carepath for Overcoming Psychosis Early (COPE), the EIS of Cavan-Monaghan Mental Health Service, and presents prospective research findings during its first 5 years of operation. METHODS: COPE was launched as a rural EIS with an embedded research protocol in early 2012, following an education programme for general practitioners (GPs). Here, operational activities are documented and research findings presented through to late 2016. RESULTS: During this period, 115 instances of FEP were incepted into COPE, 70.4% via their GP and 29.6% via the Emergency Department. The annual rate of inception was 24.8/100,000 of population aged > 15 years and was 2.1-fold more common among men than women. Mean duration of untreated psychosis was 5.7 months and median time from first psychotic presentation to initiation of antipsychotic treatment was zero days. Assessments of psychopathology, neuropsychology, neurology, premorbid functioning, quality of life, insight, and functionality compared across 10 DSM-IV psychotic diagnoses made at six months following presentation indicated minimal differences between them, other than more prominent negative symptoms in schizophrenia and more prominent mania in bipolar disorder. CONCLUSIONS: COPE illustrates the actuality of introducing and the challenges of operating a rural EIS for FEP. Prospective follow-up studies of the 5-year COPE cohort should inform on the effectiveness of this EIS model in relation to long-term outcome in psychotic illness across what appear to be arbitrary diagnostic boundaries at FEP.

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Ir J Psychol Med ; 36(4): 317-322, 2019 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31747986

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Embedding psychosis research within community mental services is highly desirable from several perspectives but can be difficult to establish and sustain, especially when the clinical service has a rural location at a distance from academic settings with established research expertise. In this article, we share the experience of a successful partnership in psychosis research between a rural Irish mental health service and the academic department of a Dublin medical school that has lasted over 30 years. We describe the origins and evolution of this relationship, the benefits that accrued and the challenges encountered, from the overlapping perspectives of the academic department, the mental health service and psychiatric training. We discuss the potential learning that arose from the initiative, particularly for national programme planning for early intervention in psychosis, and we explore the opportunities for enhanced training, career development and professional reward that can emerge from this type of partnership.


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Centros Comunitários de Saúde Mental/normas , Prática Associada/organização & administração , Psiquiatria/educação , Transtornos Psicóticos/epidemiologia , Pesquisa/organização & administração , Centros Médicos Acadêmicos/normas , Centros Médicos Acadêmicos/tendências , Intervenção Educacional Precoce/métodos , Intervenção Médica Precoce , Cuidado Periódico , Humanos , Irlanda/epidemiologia , Prática Associada/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Psicóticos/psicologia , Transtornos Psicóticos/terapia , Pesquisa/tendências , Serviços de Saúde Rural/organização & administração , Serviços de Saúde Rural/estatística & dados numéricos , Faculdades de Medicina/estatística & dados numéricos , Apoio ao Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos/métodos , Apoio ao Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos/estatística & dados numéricos
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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 3727, 2019 03 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30842569

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The potential of high severity wildfires to increase global terrestrial carbon emissions and exacerbate future climatic warming is of international concern. Nowhere is this more prevalent than within high latitude regions where peatlands have, over millennia, accumulated legacy carbon stocks comparable to all human CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Drying increases rates of peat decomposition and associated atmospheric and aquatic carbon emissions. The degree to which severe wildfires enhance drying under future climates and induce instability in peatland ecological communities and carbon stocks is unknown. Here we show that high burn severities increased post-fire evapotranspiration by 410% within a feather moss peatland by burning through the protective capping layer that restricts evaporative drying in response to low severity burns. High burn severities projected under future climates will therefore leave peatlands that dominate dry sub-humid regions across the boreal, on the edge of their climatic envelopes, more vulnerable to intense post-fire drying, inducing high rates of carbon loss to the atmosphere that amplify the direct combustion emissions.

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Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol ; 14(3): 261-274, 2018 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29460640

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INTRODUCTION: Type IV drug hypersensitivity remains an important clinical problem and an obstacle to the development of new drugs. Several forms of drug hypersensitivity are associated with expression of specific HLA alleles. Furthermore, drug-specific T-lymphocytes have been isolated from patients with reactions. Despite this, controversy remains as to how drugs interact with immune receptors to stimulate a T-cell response. Areas covered: This article reviews the pathways of T-cell activation by drugs and how the ever increasing number of associations between expression of HLA alleles and susceptibility to hypersensitivity is impacting on our research effort to understanding this form of iatrogenic disease. Expert opinion: For a drug to activate a T-cell, a complex is formed between HLA molecules, an HLA binding peptide, the drug and the T-cell receptor. T-cell responses can involve drugs and stable or reactive metabolites bound covalently or non-covalently to any component of this complex. Recent research has linked the HLA associations to the disease through the characterization of drug-specific T-cell responses restricted to specific alleles. However, there is now a need to identify the additional genetic or environment factors that determine susceptibility and use our increased knowledge to develop predictive immunogenicity tests that offer benefit to Pharma developing new drugs.


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Hipersensibilidade a Drogas/imunologia , Antígenos HLA/imunologia , Hipersensibilidade Tardia/induzido quimicamente , Alelos , Hipersensibilidade a Drogas/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Hipersensibilidade Tardia/genética , Hipersensibilidade Tardia/imunologia , Ativação Linfocitária/efeitos dos fármacos , Ativação Linfocitária/imunologia , Linfócitos T/imunologia
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Transl Psychiatry ; 6: e712, 2016 Jan 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26756905

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Major neuropsychiatric disorders are genetically complex but share overlapping etiology. Mice mutant for rare, highly penetrant risk variants can be useful in dissecting the molecular mechanisms involved. The gene disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) has been associated with increased risk for neuropsychiatric conditions. Mice mutant for Disc1 display morphological, functional and behavioral deficits that are consistent with impairments observed across these disorders. Here we report that Disc1 L100P mutants are less able to reorganize cortical circuitry in response to stimulation in vivo. Molecular analysis reveals that the mutants have a reduced expression of PSD95 and pCREB in visual cortex and fail to adjust expression of such markers in response to altered stimulation. In vitro analysis shows that mutants have impaired functional reorganization of cortical neurons in response to selected forms of neuronal stimulation, but there is no altered basal expression of synaptic markers. These findings suggest that DISC1 has a critical role in the reorganization of cortical plasticity and that this phenotype becomes evident only under challenge, even at early postnatal stages. This result may represent an important etiological mechanism in the emergence of neuropsychiatric disorders.


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Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Plasticidade Neuronal/genética , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Animais , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Técnicas In Vitro , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Mutação/genética , Plasticidade Neuronal/fisiologia , Esquizofrenia/genética
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Sci Rep ; 5: 8063, 2015 Jan 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25623290

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Northern and tropical peatlands represent a globally significant carbon reserve accumulated over thousands of years of waterlogged conditions. It is unclear whether moderate drying predicted for northern peatlands will stimulate burning and carbon losses as has occurred in their smaller tropical counterparts where the carbon legacy has been destabilized due to severe drainage and deep peat fires. Capitalizing on a unique long-term experiment, we quantify the post-wildfire recovery of a northern peatland subjected to decadal drainage. We show that the moderate drop in water table position predicted for most northern regions triggers a shift in vegetation composition previously observed within only severely disturbed tropical peatlands. The combined impact of moderate drainage followed by wildfire converted the low productivity, moss-dominated peatland to a non-carbon accumulating shrub-grass ecosystem. This new ecosystem is likely to experience a low intensity, high frequency wildfire regime, which will further deplete the legacy of stored peat carbon.

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Neuroscience ; 277: 294-305, 2014 Sep 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24969132

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Risk of schizophrenia is likely to involve gene × environment (G × E) interactions. Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) is a schizophrenia risk gene, hence any interaction with environmental adversity, such as maternal infection, may provide further insights into the basis of the disease. This study examined the individual and combined effects of prenatal immune activation with polyriboinosinic-polyribocytidilic acid (Poly I:C) and disruption of the schizophrenia risk gene NRG1 on the expression of behavioral phenotypes related to schizophrenia. NRG1 heterozygous (NRG1 HET) mutant breeding pairs were time-mated. Pregnant dams received a single injection (5mg/kg i.p.) of Poly I:C or vehicle on gestation day 9 (GD9). Offspring were then cross-fostered to vehicle-treated or Poly I:C-treated dams. Expression of schizophrenia-related behavioral endophenotypes was assessed at adolescence and in adulthood. Combining NRG1 disruption and prenatal environmental insult (Poly I:C) caused developmental stage-specific deficits in social behavior, spatial working memory and prepulse inhibition (PPI). However, combining Poly I:C and cross-fostering produced a number of behavioral deficits in the open field, social behavior and PPI. This became more complex by combining NRG1 deletion with both Poly I:C exposure and cross-fostering, which had a robust effect on PPI. These findings suggest that concepts of G × E interaction in risk of schizophrenia should be elaborated to multiple interactions that involve individual genes interacting with diverse biological and psychosocial environmental factors over early life, to differentially influence particular domains of psychopathology, sometimes over specific stages of development.


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Comportamento Animal , Endofenótipos , Interação Gene-Ambiente , Neuregulina-1/metabolismo , Complicações Infecciosas na Gravidez , Esquizofrenia/etiologia , Animais , Citocinas/sangue , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Masculino , Comportamento Materno , Transtornos da Memória/fisiopatologia , Memória de Curto Prazo/fisiologia , Camundongos Knockout , Neuregulina-1/genética , Poli I-C/imunologia , Gravidez , Inibição Pré-Pulso/fisiologia , Esquizofrenia/genética , Comportamento Social , Memória Espacial/fisiologia
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Glob Chang Biol ; 20(7): 2183-97, 2014 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24777536

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Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane. Here, we assess controls on methane flux using a database of approximately 19 000 instantaneous measurements from 71 wetland sites located across subtropical, temperate, and northern high latitude regions. Our analyses confirm general controls on wetland methane emissions from soil temperature, water table, and vegetation, but also show that these relationships are modified depending on wetland type (bog, fen, or swamp), region (subarctic to temperate), and disturbance. Fen methane flux was more sensitive to vegetation and less sensitive to temperature than bog or swamp fluxes. The optimal water table for methane flux was consistently below the peat surface in bogs, close to the peat surface in poor fens, and above the peat surface in rich fens. However, the largest flux in bogs occurred when dry 30-day averaged antecedent conditions were followed by wet conditions, while in fens and swamps, the largest flux occurred when both 30-day averaged antecedent and current conditions were wet. Drained wetlands exhibited distinct characteristics, e.g. the absence of large flux following wet and warm conditions, suggesting that the same functional relationships between methane flux and environmental conditions cannot be used across pristine and disturbed wetlands. Together, our results suggest that water table and temperature are dominant controls on methane flux in pristine bogs and swamps, while other processes, such as vascular transport in pristine fens, have the potential to partially override the effect of these controls in other wetland types. Because wetland types vary in methane emissions and have distinct controls, these ecosystems need to be considered separately to yield reliable estimates of global wetland methane release.


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Água Subterrânea/análise , Metano/metabolismo , Solo/química , Áreas Alagadas , Meio Ambiente , Geografia , Metano/análise , Temperatura
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Transl Psychiatry ; 3: e329, 2013 Dec 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24301647

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Neurodevelopmental disorders such as intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia lack precise boundaries in their clinical definitions, epidemiology, genetics and protein-protein interactomes. This calls into question the appropriateness of current categorical disease concepts. Recently, there has been a rising tide to reformulate neurodevelopmental nosological entities from biology upward. To facilitate this developing trend, we propose that identification of unique proteomic signatures that can be strongly associated with patient's risk alleles and proteome-interactome-guided exploration of patient genomes could define biological mechanisms necessary to reformulate disorder definitions.


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Transtornos Globais do Desenvolvimento Infantil/metabolismo , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/metabolismo , Genoma/genética , Proteoma/metabolismo , Esquizofrenia/metabolismo , Transtornos Globais do Desenvolvimento Infantil/classificação , Transtornos Globais do Desenvolvimento Infantil/genética , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/classificação , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/genética , Humanos , Deficiência Intelectual , Esquizofrenia/classificação , Esquizofrenia/genética
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Neuroscience ; 250: 743-54, 2013 Oct 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23892010

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To investigate the role of glutamate receptor subtypes and GABA in orofacial function, six individual topographies of orofacial movement, both spontaneous and induced by the dopamine D1-like receptor agonist [R/S]-3-methyl-6-chloro-7,8-dihydroxy-1-[3-methyl-phenyl]-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-3-benzazepine (SKF 83959), were quantified in mutant mice with deletion of (a) GluN2A, B or D receptors, and (b) the GABA synthesizing enzyme, 65-kD isoform of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD65). In GluN2A mutants, habituation of head movements was disrupted and vibrissae movements were reduced, with an overall increase in locomotion; responsivity to SKF 83959 was unaltered. In GluN2B mutants, vertical and horizontal jaw movements and incisor chattering were increased, with an overall decrease in locomotion; under challenge with SKF 83959, head and vibrissae movements were reduced. In GluN2D mutants, horizontal jaw movements, incisor chattering and vibrissae movements were increased, with reduced tongue protrusions and no overall change in locomotion; under challenge with SKF 83959, horizontal jaw movements were increased. In GAD65 mutants, vertical jaw movements were increased, with disruption to habituation of locomotion; under challenge with SKF 83959, vertical and horizontal jaw movements and incisor chattering were decreased. Effects on orofacial movements differed from their effects on regulation of overall locomotor behavior. These findings (a) indicate novel, differential roles for GluN2A, B and D receptors and for GAD65-mediated GABA in the regulation of individual topographies of orofacial movement and (b) reveal how these roles differ from and/or interact with the established role of D1-like receptors in pattern generators and effectors for such movements.


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Aminoácidos/fisiologia , Músculos Faciais/fisiologia , Glutamato Descarboxilase/genética , Boca/fisiologia , Movimento/fisiologia , Mutação/fisiologia , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/genética , 2,3,4,5-Tetra-Hidro-7,8-Di-Hidroxi-1-Fenil-1H-3-Benzazepina/análogos & derivados , 2,3,4,5-Tetra-Hidro-7,8-Di-Hidroxi-1-Fenil-1H-3-Benzazepina/farmacologia , Animais , Agonistas de Dopamina/farmacologia , Feminino , Genótipo , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Atividade Motora/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores de Dopamina D1/agonistas , Caracteres Sexuais , Transmissão Sináptica/fisiologia
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Psychol Med ; 43(12): 2523-33, 2013 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23480983

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BACKGROUND: The boundaries of psychotic illness and the extent to which operational diagnostic categories are distinct in the long term remain poorly understood. Clarification of these issues requires prospective evaluation of diagnostic trajectory, interplay and convergence/divergence across psychotic illness, without a priori diagnostic or other restrictions. METHOD: The Cavan-Monaghan First Episode Psychosis Study (CAMFEPS), conducted using methods to attain the closest approximation to epidemiological completeness, incepts all 12 DSM-IV psychotic diagnoses. In this study we applied methodologies to achieve diagnostic reassessments on follow-up, at a mean of 6.4 years after first presentation, for 196 (97%) of the first 202 cases, with quantification of prospective and retrospective consistency. RESULTS: Over 6 years, the 12 initial psychotic diagnoses were characterized by numerous transitions but only limited convergence towards a smaller number of more stable diagnostic nodes. In particular, for initial brief psychotic disorder (BrP), in 85% of cases this was the harbinger of long-term evolution to serious psychotic illness of diagnostic diversity; for initial major depressive disorder with psychotic features (MDDP), in 18% of cases this was associated with mortality of diverse causality; and for initial psychotic disorder not otherwise specified (PNOS), 31% of cases continued to defy DSM-IV criteria. CONCLUSIONS: CAMFEPS methodology revealed, on an individual case basis, a diversity of stabilities in, and transitions between, all 12 DSM-IV psychotic diagnoses over 6 years; thus, psychotic illness showed longitudinal disrespect to current nosology and may be better accommodated by a dimensional model. In particular, a first episode of BrP or MDDP may benefit from more vigorous, sustained interventions.


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Transtornos Psicóticos/classificação , Adulto , Depressão/diagnóstico , Depressão/epidemiologia , Depressão/mortalidade , Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais , Progressão da Doença , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Irlanda/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Prospectivos , Transtornos Psicóticos/epidemiologia , Transtornos Psicóticos/mortalidade
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Neuropsychopharmacology ; 38(8): 1512-20, 2013 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23422792

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Drugs that induce psychosis, such as D-amphetamine (AMP), and those that alleviate it, such as antipsychotics, are suggested to exert behavioral effects via dopamine receptor D2 (D2). All antipsychotic drugs are D2 antagonists, but D2 antagonism underlies the severe and debilitating side effects of these drugs; it is therefore important to know whether D2 is necessary for their behavioral effects. Using D2-null mice (Drd2-/-), we first investigated whether D2 is required for AMP disruption of latent inhibition (LI). LI is a process of learning to ignore irrelevant stimuli. Disruption of LI by AMP models impaired attention and abnormal salience allocation consequent to dysregulated dopamine relevant to schizophrenia. AMP disruption of LI was seen in both wild-type (WT) and Drd2-/-. This was in contrast to AMP-induced locomotor hyperactivity, which was reduced in Drd2-/-. AMP disruption of LI was attenuated in mice lacking dopamine receptor D1 (Drd1-/-), suggesting that D1 may play a role in AMP disruption of LI. Further supporting this possibility, we found that D1 antagonist SKF83566 attenuated AMP disruption of LI in WT. Remarkably, both haloperidol and clozapine attenuated AMP disruption of LI in Drd2-/-. This demonstrates that antipsychotic drugs can attenuate AMP disruption of learning to ignore irrelevant stimuli in the absence of D2 receptors. Data suggest that D2 is not essential either for AMP to disrupt or for antipsychotic drugs to reverse AMP disruption of learning to ignore irrelevant stimuli and further that D1 merits investigation in the mediation of AMP disruption of these processes.


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Antipsicóticos/farmacologia , Dextroanfetamina/farmacologia , Inibição Psicológica , Aprendizagem/efeitos dos fármacos , Aprendizagem/fisiologia , Receptores de Dopamina D2/deficiência , Animais , Feminino , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Fatores de Tempo
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Neurosci Lett ; 532: 33-8, 2013 Jan 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22982201

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OBJECTIVE: The Schizophrenia Psychiatric Genome-wide Association (GWAS) Consortium recently reported on five novel schizophrenia susceptibility loci. The most significant finding mapped to a micro-RNA, MIR-137, which may be involved in regulating the function of other schizophrenia and bipolar disorder susceptibility genes. METHOD: We genotyped 821 patients with confirmed DSM-IV diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder I and schizoaffective disorder for the risk SNP (rs1625579) and investigated the clinical profiles of risk allele carriers using a within-case design. We also assessed neurocognitive performance in a subset of cases (n=399) and controls (n=171). RESULTS: Carriers of the risk allele had lower scores for an OPCRIT-derived positive symptom factor (p=0.04) and lower scores on a lifetime measure of psychosis incongruity (p=0.017). Risk allele carriers also had more cognitive deficits involving episodic memory and attentional control. CONCLUSION: This is the first evidence that the MIR-137 risk variant may be associated with a specific subgroup of psychosis patients. Although the effect of this single SNP was not clinically relevant, investigation of the impact of carrying multiple risk SNPs in the MIR-137 regulatory network on diagnosis and illness profile may be warranted.


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Transtornos Cognitivos/genética , MicroRNAs/genética , Esquizofrenia/genética , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Adolescente , Adulto , Transtorno Bipolar/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Estudos de Associação Genética , Genótipo , Heterozigoto , Humanos , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Transtornos Psicóticos/genética , Adulto Jovem
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J Neurosci Res ; 90(7): 1445-53, 2012 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22388794

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Disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) is a gene that has been functionally linked with neurodevelopmental processes and structural plasticity in the brain. Clinical genetic investigations have implicated DISC1 as a genetic risk factor for schizophrenia and related psychoses. Studies using mutant mouse models of DISC1 gene function have demonstrated schizophrenia-related anatomical and behavioral endophenotypes. In the present study, ethologically based assessment of exploratory and habituation behavior in the open field was conducted in DISC1 (L100P), wild-type (WT), heterozygous (HET), and homozygous (HOM) mutant mice of both sexes. Ethological assessment was conducted in an open-field environment to explore specific topographies of murine exploratory behavior across the extended course of interaction from initial exploration through subsequent habituation (the ethogram). During initial exploration, HET and HOM DISC1 mutants evidenced increased levels of locomotion and rearing to wall compared with WT. A HOM-specific increase in total rearing and a HET-specific increase in sifting behavior and reduction in rearing seated were also observed. Over subsequent habituation, locomotion, sniffing, total rearing, rearing to wall, rearing free, and rearing seated were increased in HET and HOM mutants vs. WT. Overall, grooming was increased in HOM relative to other genotypes. HET mice displayed a selective decrease in habituation of sifting behavior. These data demonstrate impairment in both initial exploratory and habituation of exploration in a novel environment in mice with mutation of DISC1. This is discussed in the context of the functional role of the gene vis à vis a schizophrenia phenotype as well as the value of ethologically based approaches to behavioral phenotyping.


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Etologia/métodos , Comportamento Exploratório/fisiologia , Habituação Psicofisiológica/genética , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Animais , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Triagem de Portadores Genéticos , Habituação Psicofisiológica/fisiologia , Homozigoto , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Mutantes , Atividade Motora/genética , Atividade Motora/fisiologia , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/fisiologia , Fenótipo , Esquizofrenia/genética , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia
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Eur J Appl Physiol ; 112(5): 1839-48, 2012 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21922261

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We describe the effects of multi-day relay trail running on muscle soreness and damage, and systemic immune, inflammatory, and oxidative responses. 16 male and 4 female athletes ran 894 km in 47 stages over 95 h, with mean (SD) 6.4 (1.0) stages per athlete and 19.0 (1.7) km per stage. We observed post-pre run increases in serum creatine kinase (qualified effect size extremely large, p = 0.002), IL-6 (extremely large, p < 0.001), urinary 8-isoprostane/creatinine (extremely large, p = 0.04), TNF-α (large, p = 0.002), leukocyte count (very large, p < 0.0001) and neutrophil fraction (very large, p < 0.001); and reductions in hemoglobin (moderate, p < 0.001), hematocrit (moderate, p < 0.001), and lymphocyte fraction (trivial, p < 0.001). An increase in ORAC total antioxidant capacity (TAC, small, p = 0.3) and decrease in urinary 8-OHdG/creatinine (small, p = 0.1) were not statistically significant. During the run, muscle soreness was most frequent in the quadriceps. The threshold for muscle pain (pain-pressure algometry) in the vastus lateralis and gastrocnemius was lower post-run (small, p = 0.04 and 0.03). Average running speed was correlated with algometer pain and leukocyte count (large, r = 0.52), and TAC was correlated with IL-6 (very large, r = 0.76) and 8-isoprostane/creatinine (very large, r = -0.72). Multi-day stage-racing increases inflammation, lipid peroxidation, muscle damage and soreness without oxidative DNA damage. High TAC is associated with reduced exercise-induced lipid peroxidation, but is not related to immune response or muscle damage.


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Antioxidantes/metabolismo , Exercício Físico/fisiologia , Inflamação/metabolismo , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Estresse Oxidativo/fisiologia , Dor/metabolismo , Corrida/fisiologia , Adulto , Creatina Quinase/sangue , Dinoprosta/análogos & derivados , Dinoprosta/urina , Feminino , Humanos , Interleucina-6/sangue , Peroxidação de Lipídeos , Masculino
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Eur Psychiatry ; 27(3): 200-5, 2012 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21392944

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PURPOSE: Impaired insight is commonly seen in psychosis and some studies have proposed that is a biologically based deficit. Support for this view comes from the excess of neurological soft signs (NSS) observed in patients with psychoses and their neural correlates which demonstrate a degree of overlap with the regions of interest implicated in neuroimaging studies of insight. The aim was to examine the relationship between NSS and insight in a sample of 241 first-episode psychosis patients. METHOD: Total scores and subscale scores from three insight measures and two NSS scales were correlated in addition to factors representing overall insight and NSS which we created using principal component analysis. RESULTS: There were only four significant associations when we controlled for symptoms. "Softer" condensed neurological evaluation (CNE) signs were associated with our overall insight factor (r = 0.19, P = 0.02), with total Birchwood (r = -0.24, P < 0.01), and the Birchwood subscales; recognition of mental illness (r = -0.24, P < 0.01) and need for treatment (r = -0.18, P = 0.02). Total neurological evaluation scale (NES) and recognition of the achieved effects of medication were also weakly correlated (r = 0.14, P = 0.04). CONCLUSION: This study does not support a direct link between neurological dysfunction and insight in psychosis. Our understanding of insight as a concept remains in its infancy.


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Conscientização , Exame Neurológico , Transtornos Psicóticos/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Transtornos Psicóticos/diagnóstico , Transtornos Psicóticos/fisiopatologia
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Brain Res ; 1348: 114-9, 2010 Aug 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20561508

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Abnormalities in pain perception, especially altered warmth and heat pain sensitivity, have been reported in schizophrenia. Therefore, genes associated with schizophrenia, including neuregulin-1 (NRG1), catechol-O-methyltranferase (COMT) and disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1), may play a role in modulating the physiological and psychological effects of pain stimuli in such patients. Thermal pain sensitivity was assessed in NRG1, COMT and DISC1 mutant mice, and the anti-nociceptive effects of acute Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were compared in NRG1 and COMT mutants. At baseline, deletion of NRG1 and DISC1 each reduced thermal pain sensitivity, while deletion of COMT increased pain sensitivity. Neither NRG1 nor COMT deletion altered the anti-nociceptive effects of acute systemic THC (8.0mg/kg). These results indicate a differential contribution of NRG1 and DISC1 vis-à-vis COMT to the processing of thermal nociceptive stimuli and extend their phenotypic relationship to psychotic illness.


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Catecol O-Metiltransferase/genética , Hiperalgesia/genética , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Neuregulina-1/genética , Limiar da Dor/efeitos dos fármacos , Analgésicos não Narcóticos/uso terapêutico , Análise de Variância , Animais , Comportamento Animal/efeitos dos fármacos , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Catecol O-Metiltransferase/deficiência , Dronabinol/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Hiperalgesia/tratamento farmacológico , Hiperalgesia/fisiopatologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Knockout , Mutagênese/genética , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/deficiência , Neuregulina-1/deficiência , Medição da Dor , Tempo de Reação/efeitos dos fármacos , Fatores Sexuais
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Eur J Neurosci ; 31(2): 349-58, 2010 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20074216

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Neuregulin-1 (NRG1) has been shown to play a role in glutamatergic neurotransmission and is a risk gene for schizophrenia, in which there is evidence for hypoglutamatergic function. Sensitivity to the behavioural effects of the psychotomimetic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists MK-801 and phencyclidine (PCP) was examined in mutant mice with heterozygous deletion of NRG1. Social behaviour (sociability, social novelty preference and dyadic interaction), together with exploratory activity, was assessed following acute or subchronic administration of MK-801 (0.1 and 0.2 mg/kg) or PCP (5 mg/kg). In untreated NRG1 mutants, levels of glutamate, N-acetylaspartate and GABA were determined using high-performance liquid chromatography and regional brain volumes were assessed using magnetic resonance imaging at 7T. NRG1 mutants, particularly males, displayed decreased responsivity to the locomotor-activating effects of acute PCP. Subchronic MK-801 and PCP disrupted sociability and social novelty preference in mutants and wildtypes and reversed the increase in both exploratory activity and social dominance-related behaviours observed in vehicle-treated mutants. No phenotypic differences were demonstrated in N-acetylaspartate, glutamate or GABA levels. The total ventricular and olfactory bulb volume was decreased in mutants. These data indicate a subtle role for NRG1 in modulating several schizophrenia-relevant processes including the effects of psychotomimetic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists.


Assuntos
Comportamento Animal/efeitos dos fármacos , Neuregulina-1/metabolismo , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Comportamento Social , Animais , Ácido Aspártico/análogos & derivados , Ácido Aspártico/análise , Encéfalo/anatomia & histologia , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Maleato de Dizocilpina/farmacologia , Antagonistas de Aminoácidos Excitatórios/farmacologia , Feminino , Ácido Glutâmico/análise , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Neuregulina-1/genética , Fenciclidina/farmacologia , Fenótipo , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/antagonistas & inibidores , Fatores Sexuais , Ácido gama-Aminobutírico/análise
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Neuroscience ; 155(4): 1021-9, 2008 Sep 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18674597

RESUMO

Catechol-O-methyltransferase is an important enzyme in the metabolism of dopamine and an important regulator of aspects of dopamine-dependent working memory in prefrontal cortex that are disturbed in schizophrenia. This study investigated the phenotype of mice with heterozygous deletion vs. homozygous knockout of the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene across paradigms that access processes relevant for psychotic illness. Homozygotes evidenced improved performance in spontaneous alternation, an index of immediate spatial working memory; this effect appeared more substantive in males and was reflected in performance in aspects of the Barnes maze, an index of spatial learning/memory. Heterozygotes evidenced impaired performance in object recognition, an index of recognition memory; this effect was evident for both sexes at a retention interval of 5 min but appeared more enduring in males. There were no material effects for either genotype in relation to sociability or social novelty preference. While homozygous catechol-O-methyltransferase deletion results in improvement in spatial learning/working memory with little effect on social behavior, heterozygous deletion results in impairment of recognition memory. We have reported recently, using similar methods, that mice with deletion of the schizophrenia risk gene neuregulin-1 evidence disruption to social behavior, with little effect on spatial learning/working memory. The data suggest that catechol-O-methyltransferase and neuregulin-1 may influence, respectively, primarily cognitive and social endophenotypes of the overall schizophrenia syndrome.


Assuntos
Catecol O-Metiltransferase/deficiência , Cognição/fisiologia , Heterozigoto , Homozigoto , Fenótipo , Comportamento Social , Análise de Variância , Animais , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Comportamento Exploratório/fisiologia , Feminino , Masculino , Aprendizagem em Labirinto/fisiologia , Memória/fisiologia , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Knockout , Atividade Motora/genética , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Fatores Sexuais
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