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Transl Psychiatry ; 6(11): e967, 2016 11 29.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27898072

ABSTRACT

Various lines of evidence suggest that brain bioenergetics and mitochondrial function may be altered in schizophrenia. On the basis of prior phosphorus-31 (31P)-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), post-mortem and preclinical studies, this study was designed to test the hypothesis that abnormal glycolysis leads to elevated lactate concentrations in subjects with schizophrenia. The high sensitivity of 7 Tesla proton (1H)-MRS was used to measure brain lactate levels in vivo. Twenty-nine controls and 27 participants with schizophrenia completed the study. MRS scanning was conducted on a Philips 'Achieva' 7T scanner, and spectra were acquired from a voxel in the anterior cingulate cortex. Patients were assessed for psychiatric symptom severity, and all participants completed the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) and University of California, San Diego Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA). The relationship between lactate, psychiatric symptom severity, MCCB and UPSA was examined. Lactate was significantly higher in patients compared with controls (P=0.013). Higher lactate was associated with lower MCCB (r=-0.36, P=0.01) and UPSA total scores (r=-0.43, P=0.001). We believe this is the first study to report elevated in vivo cerebral lactate levels in schizophrenia. Elevated lactate levels in schizophrenia may reflect increased anaerobic glycolysis possibly because of mitochondrial dysfunction. This study also suggests that altered cerebral bioenergetics contribute to cognitive and functional impairments in schizophrenia.


Subject(s)
Brain/physiopathology , Lactic Acid/metabolism , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Psychotic Disorders/physiopathology , Schizophrenia/physiopathology , Adult , Case-Control Studies , Female , Gyrus Cinguli/physiopathology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Schizophrenia/diagnosis , Statistics as Topic , Young Adult
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Mol Psychiatry ; 21(2): 198-204, 2016 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25824298

ABSTRACT

Gamma-butyric acid (GABA) dysfunction has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and its cognitive deficits. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to test the hypothesis that older participants with schizophrenia have lower anterior cingulate GABA levels compared with older control participants. One-hundred forty-five participants completed this study. For detection of GABA, spectra were acquired from the medial frontal/anterior cingulate cortex using a macromolecule-suppressed MEGA-PRESS sequence. Patients were evaluated for psychopathology and all participants completed neuropsychological tests of working memory, processing speed and functional capacity. GABA levels were significantly lower in the older participants with schizophrenia (n=31) compared with the older control (n=37) group (P=0.003) but not between the younger control (n=40) and schizophrenia (n=29) groups (P=0.994). Age strongly predicted GABA levels in the schizophrenia group accounting for 42% of the variance, but the effect of age was less in the control group accounting for 5.7% of the variance. GABA levels were specifically related to working memory but not processing speed performance, functional capacity, or positive or negative symptom severity. This is the largest MRS study of GABA in schizophrenia and the first to examine GABA without macromolecule contamination, a potentially significant issue in previous studies. GABA levels more rapidly declined with advancing age in the schizophrenia compared with the control group. Interventions targeted at halting the decline or increasing GABA levels may improve functional outcomes and quality of life as patients with schizophrenia age.


Subject(s)
Schizophrenia/pathology , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/metabolism , gamma-Aminobutyric Acid/physiology , Adult , Age Factors , Case-Control Studies , Cognition Disorders/pathology , Female , Frontal Lobe/pathology , Gyrus Cinguli/pathology , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods , Male , Memory, Short-Term/physiology , Middle Aged , Neuropsychological Tests , Quality of Life
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Transl Psychiatry ; 5: e548, 2015 Apr 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25871973

ABSTRACT

We investigated in vivo neurochemical markers reflective of neuronal health and glial activation to determine if these could yield clues regarding the reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) of white matter and accelerated decline of FA with age in schizophrenia. Participants with schizophrenia and healthy controls completed diffusion tensor imaging to assess FA and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assess neurochemical metabolites in the same frontal region. Frontal FA was significantly lower in the schizophrenia and declined more rapidly with age compared with the healthy control group. In both groups, N-acetylaspartate (NAA), a putative marker of neuronal integrity, and glutamate declined with age, and this decline was stronger in patients. Myo-inositol, a marker of glial cells, was negatively related to FA in both groups. The relationship between FA and age remained significant in schizophrenia even when controlling for all metabolites. The relationships of FA, NAA and myo-inositol to age appear to be independent of one another. The relationship between FA and myo-inositol was independently present in both patients and controls, even after controlling for age, indicating a potential general effect of neuroinflammation on white matter microstructure. Further studies are warranted to determine the underlying mechanism driving the accelerated FA decline with age in schizophrenia.


Subject(s)
Frontal Lobe/pathology , Schizophrenia/pathology , White Matter/pathology , Adult , Age Factors , Anisotropy , Aspartic Acid/analogs & derivatives , Aspartic Acid/metabolism , Case-Control Studies , Choline/metabolism , Creatine/metabolism , Diffusion Tensor Imaging , Female , Frontal Lobe/metabolism , Glutamic Acid/metabolism , Humans , Inflammation , Inositol/metabolism , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Male , Middle Aged , Neuroglia/metabolism , Schizophrenia/metabolism , White Matter/metabolism , Young Adult
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Neuroimage ; 66: 161-8, 2013 Feb 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23073233

ABSTRACT

Fractional anisotropy (FA) of water diffusion in cerebral white matter (WM), derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), is a sensitive index of microscopic WM integrity. Physiological and metabolic factors that explain intersubject variability in FA values were evaluated in two cohorts of healthy adults of different age spans (N=65, range: 28-50years; and N=25, age=66.6±6.2, range: 57-80years). Single voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to measure N-acetylaspartate (NAA), total choline-containing compounds, and total creatine, bilaterally in an associative WM tract: anterior corona radiata (ACR). FA values were calculated for the underlying, proximal and two distal WM regions. Two-stage regression analysis was used to calculate the proportion of variability in FA values explained by spectroscopy measurements, at the first stage, and subject's age, at the second stage. WM NAA concentration explained 23% and 66% of intersubject variability (p<0.001) in the FA of the underlying WM in the younger and older cohorts, respectively. WM NAA concentration also explained a significant proportion of variability in FA of the genu of corpus callosum (CC), a proximal WM tract where some of the fibers contained within the spectroscopic voxel decussate. NAA concentrations also explained a significant proportion of variability in the FA values in the splenium of CC, a distal WM tract that also carries associative fibers, in both cohorts. These results suggest that MRS measurements explained a significant proportion of variability in FA values in both proximal and distal WM tracts that carry similar fiber-types.


Subject(s)
Anisotropy , Cerebral Cortex/metabolism , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , White Matter/metabolism , Adult , Aged , Cerebral Cortex/pathology , Diffusion Tensor Imaging , Female , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Middle Aged , Protons , White Matter/pathology
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