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Objective To investigate auditory sensory gating potential in the siblings of schizophrenic, to discover the neuroimaging features of sensory gating associated with schizophrenia as intermediate phenotypes. Methods Twelve siblings of schizophrenia patients in the first episodic, and 12 healthy controls matched in gender, age, education under?went MRI scan when performing a auditory sensory gating fMRI task (repeated clicks and single click auditory stimuli). The measure of sensory gating was the contrast of repeated clicks minus single click. The analysis of result was imple?mented in SPM2. Results Compared with healthy controls, schizophrenia patients showed significant overactivation in the right inter cingulate gyrus (x=4,y=8,z=32) and left anterior cingulate gyrus (x=-8,y=4,z=28) during the fMRI senso?ry gating task. Conclusion Sensory gating is overactivated in the cingulate gyrus in siblings of schizophrenic. This pat?tern may be a potential endophenotype of schizophrenia.
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Objective To compare the effects of atypical antipsyehoties treatment on PS0 sensory gating in first-episode schizophrenics. Methods The P50 auditory evoked potential was recorded by using conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm and stimulus train paradigm in 36 normal controls and 53 first-episode schizophrenics be-fore and after treatment,and compare the difference of P50 sensory gating after treatment. Results Before treat-ment, compared with control group, the atypical groups both had statistic difference of T-P50 amplitude ((1.01±0.88)μV, (0.68±0.64)μV, (0.58±0.47)μV), P50 suppression ((0.61±0.27), (0.54±0.22, (0. 59± 0.19)) in conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm and P50 amplitude,P50 suppression evoked by high frequency stimuli in stimulus train paradigm(P < 0.05), but no difference among the atypical groups (P > 0.05). After treat-ment,compared with control group, there was no statistic difference in olanzapine and elozapine groups of T-P50 amplitude and P50 suppression in conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm, but the difference in risperidone and que-tiapine groups still obviously(P<0.05). In stimulus train paradigm, there was no statistic difference of P50 ampli-tude, P50 suppression evoked by high frequency stimuli in every groups (P>0.05). Compared within atypical groups, the difference of P50 amplitude and P50 suppression were both obviously(P<0.05). Conclusion Each a-typical antipsychotic has different effect on P50 sensory gating;and the conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm and stimulus train paradigm P50 sensory gating may reflect different central neuron mechanism.
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Objective To compare the effects of typical and atypical antipsychotics treatment on P50 sensory ga-ting in first-episode schizophrenics.Methods Using conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm and stimulus train paradigm to record the P50 auditory evoked potential in 36 normal controls and in 61 first-episode schizophrenics before and after treat-ment.Patients were categorized into two groups:the typical antipsychotic treatment group(typical group)and the atypical antipsychotic treatment group(atypical group).Results Before treatment,both of the typical and atypical groups had low-er levels of S2-P50 amplitude,P50 suppression in conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm and P50 amplitude as well as P50 suppression evoked by high frequency stimuli in stimulus train paradigm in comparison with controls(P<0.05).After treatment,the typical antipsychotic treatment significantly improved the levels of P50 suppression in the stimulus train para-digm but not the levels of S2-P50 amplitude,P50 suppression in the conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm(P<0.05)whereas the atypical antipsychotic treatment improve the levels of P50 amplitude,P50 suppression in both stimulus train paradigm and the conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm(P<0.05). Conclusions The typical antipsychotic treatment can ameliorate the P50 suppression in stimulus train paradigm,but not in the conditioning-testing stimulus paradigm,whereas atypical antipsychotic treatment can ameliorate P50 suppression in both paradigms.
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BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a special time for a person to develop mature sexuality and manifest psychological response, mental experience and sexual behaviour meanwhile. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mental health status of girl students during psychosexual development period in order to provide scientific basis for sexual education.DESIGN: Analytical study.SETTING: Mental health centre of a university.PARTICIPANTS: This study was conducted in the Mental Health Centre of Shantou University from September 2002 to January 2003. Totally 130 girl students of university(40), senior high school(47) and junior high school(43)were selected by cluster sampling to conduct questionnaire investigation.METHODS: Self-administrated questionnaire was used to investigate 130girl students.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Sexual development and mental health status, opinion to sexual behaviour and sexual morality.RESULTS: Thirty girls(23.1% ) were at a loss and have negative response to the secondary sexual characters while 99 girls had masturbatory experience(76. 2% ), 46 had incorrect attitude towards masturbation(35.4% ), 14had unusual relationship with males(10. 1% ) and 21 once had experienced sexual harassment (16.2%).CONCLUSION: It is necessary to conduct sexual health eduction to students in order to reduce the negative mental response caused by sexual development as well as sexual morality education focusing on virginity. The sexual harassment to girls also should be paid attention.