Jing Tian , Spyridon Siafis , Xiao Lin , Hui Wu , Schneider-Thoma Johannes , Leucht Stefan
{"title":"Antipsychotic drug dosing and study discontinuation in schizophrenia: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis","authors":"Jing Tian , Spyridon Siafis , Xiao Lin , Hui Wu , Schneider-Thoma Johannes , Leucht Stefan","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>High discontinuation rates compromise the effectiveness of treatment regimens for schizophrenia, because consistent medication adherence is essential for the efficacy of antipsychotics. Understanding the relationship between antipsychotic doses and discontinuation rates is important. This study explores this relationship to identify doses that maximize treatment adherence and minimize discontinuation.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We systematically searched multiple electronic databases for fixed-dose RCTs assessing 20 antipsychotics in patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia and related disorders. We analyzed dose-response relationships using a one-stage dose-response meta-analysis within a frequentist framework, employing restricted cubic splines to model the relationships. The primary outcome was discontinuation for any reason, and secondary outcomes were discontinuation due to inefficacy and side effects.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Analysis of 136 trials involving 44,126 participants revealed various dose-response relationships for antipsychotics. For the primary outcome, all-cause discontinuation, amisulpride, cariprazine, olanzapine (Zyprexa), and quetiapine demonstrated U-shaped curves, indicating optimal dosing thresholds where further increases in dosage led to heightened discontinuation rates, possibly due to side effects. Aripiprazole, asenapine, brexpiprazole, clozapine, paliperidone, and risperidone (Risperdal) had plateaus, suggesting no additional benefit from increasing doses beyond specific points. For haloperidol, iloperidone, lumateperone, lurasidone, sertindole, and ziprasidone, the dose-response curves did not reach a plateau within the examined doses. Inefficacy discontinuation curves were similar to total discontinuation. Most discontinuation for side-effects curves showed sharp increases in side-effects associated with higher doses.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Dose discontinuation curves varied between the antipsychotics and included U-shaped, monotonic, and hyperbolic patterns. Future studies should consistently present disease-related and side-effect-related dropouts due to adverse events separately.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 51-58"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143579654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina Ulecia-Morón , Álvaro G. Bris , Karina S. MacDowell , Pilar Cerveró-García , José L.M. Madrigal , Borja García-Bueno , Marta P. Pereira , Juan C. Leza , Javier R. Caso
{"title":"Chronic mild stress dysregulates autophagy, membrane dynamics, and lysosomal status in frontal cortex and hippocampus of rats","authors":"Cristina Ulecia-Morón , Álvaro G. Bris , Karina S. MacDowell , Pilar Cerveró-García , José L.M. Madrigal , Borja García-Bueno , Marta P. Pereira , Juan C. Leza , Javier R. Caso","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inflammation has been related to major depressive disorder pathophysiology. Autophagy, a degradative pathway regulating inflammation and immunity, has emerged as a potential contributor. Among others, we characterized, in frontal cortex (FC) and hippocampus (Hp), autophagy markers (upregulations in mTOR, ATG7, and ATG 16L1, and downregulations in ULK1, BECLIN1, phospho-SQSTM1, ATG3, ATG12, and ATG 16L1), effectors of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (overexpression in HRS, VPS37A, CHMP6, and GALECTIN 3, and downregulations in STAM2, TSG101, VPS28, VPS37A, CHMP5, VPS4B, and GALECTIN 9), and lysosomal proteins (LAMP1, LAMP2A, MANNOSE RECEPTOR, HSC70, HSP70, CATHEPSIN D and B, and CYSTATIN C, whose variations are dependent on lysosomal nature and brain region) of male rats exposed to chronic mild stress, a model of depression, compared to control rats. Results indicate that chronic stress alters protein expression of autophagy and the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport markers in a region-specific manner, plus increases lysosomal presence, oppositely modulating lysosomal proteins in each structure. Additionally, astrocytes seemed to exert an essential role in the regulation of the autophagy adaptor SQSTM1/p62. In conclusion, stress-induced protein disruptions in these pathways highlight their differential modulation after chronic stress exposure and their potential role in maintaining brain homeostasis during the stress response, making them promising targets for new therapeutic strategies in stress-related pathologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 24-35"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muscle and the mind: The combination of creatine and exercise for depression","authors":"Nicholas Fabiano , Brendon Stubbs","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"95 ","pages":"Page 1"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex differences in schizophrenia-related mortality: A call for targeted interventions","authors":"Javier Labad","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"94 ","pages":"Page 38"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo , Ana Catalan , Maria Rogdaki , Paola Dazzan
{"title":"Commentary on “Sex-stratified mortality estimates in people with schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of 2,700,825 people with schizophrenia” by Solmi and colleagues","authors":"Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo , Ana Catalan , Maria Rogdaki , Paola Dazzan","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 36-37"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The promise and challenges of mHealth in psychiatry: Bridging the gap between potential and long-awaited implementation","authors":"Mari Skoge , Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.02.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 22-23"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143562221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noham Wolpe , Andrea Perrottelli , Luigi Giuliani , Zixu Yang , Gurpreet Rekhi , Peter B. Jones , Miquel Bernardo , Maria Paz Garcia-Portilla , Stefan Kaiser , Gabriel Robert , Phillipe Robert , Anna Mane , Silvana Galderisi , Jimmy Lee , Armida Mucci , Emilio Fernandez-Egea
{"title":"Measuring the clinical dimensions of negative symptoms through the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale","authors":"Noham Wolpe , Andrea Perrottelli , Luigi Giuliani , Zixu Yang , Gurpreet Rekhi , Peter B. Jones , Miquel Bernardo , Maria Paz Garcia-Portilla , Stefan Kaiser , Gabriel Robert , Phillipe Robert , Anna Mane , Silvana Galderisi , Jimmy Lee , Armida Mucci , Emilio Fernandez-Egea","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.12.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.12.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The negative symptoms of schizophrenia can determine functional outcome in patients. Despite its clinical significance, no treatment exists to date, as numerous pharmacological and non-pharmacological clinical trials have failed to demonstrate efficacy. Many of these trials evaluated negative symptoms as a single clinical construct. However, consistent evidence in the past two decades has found that negative symptoms constitute at least two independent clinical dimensions, namely deficits in motivation and pleasure (MAP) and in emotional expression (EXP). These dimensions are best evaluated using new assessment tools, such as the Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS). However, older assessment tools, and particularly the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), remain widely used in past and current research. Here, we sought to predict BNSS MAP and EXP dimensions from the PANSS. Using complementary modelling approaches across three heterogeneous, multi-centre, multi-culture patient samples (<em>n</em> = 1241 patients, 1846 observations), we show that MAP can be estimated (43–60 % variance explained) predominantly using N2 and N4. Moreover, EXP can be estimated predominantly using the two PANSS items N1 and N6 (55–81 % variance explained across models and samples). Additionally, PANSS-derived MAP shows associations with functioning similar to those measured by the BNSS MAP dimension. Together, our results suggest that while EXP can be reliably estimated from PANSS, MAP cannot be consistently estimated from PANSS across samples and cultures. This warrants caution when using the PANSS to estimate MAP and emphasises the need for using the newer assessment tools for negative symptoms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 68-76"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lack of transparency on baseline pharmacological treatments in Clinical High-Risk for psychosis (CHR-P) may degrade precision: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Andrea Raballo , Michele Poletti , Antonio Preti","doi":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.01.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.euroneuro.2025.01.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The field of Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis (CHR-P) is a dynamic area within contemporary psychiatry and serves as a crucial testing ground for precision prognostic models. Nonetheless, some foundational aspects remain inadequately conceptualized and consequently not transparently reported, such as baseline pharmacotherapy. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted by searching the MEDLINE and Cochrane Library databases for studies published up to August 31, 2024. Eligible studies included CHR-P samples, reported numeric data on outcomes at follow-up, and examined the transition to psychosis as an outcome. Data extraction adhered to PRISMA guidelines, focusing on baseline pharmacological exposure to antipsychotics, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and mood stabilizers. A total of 95 studies were analyzed. The majority of studies (96.8 %) explicitly stated whether baseline exposure to antipsychotics was allowed as part of the inclusion criteria. However, actual baseline exposure to antipsychotics was quantified in only 60 % of these studies. Exposure to non-antipsychotic psychoactive therapies was reported in only a fraction of the studies (36.8 % for antidepressants, 16.8 % for benzodiazepines, and 14.7 % for mood stabilizers). In CHR-P longitudinal studies, the meta-analytic proportions of self-disclosed baseline pharmacological exposure ranged from 23.5 % to 24.5 % for antipsychotics, 28.5 % to 30.6 % for antidepressants, 11.2 % to 14.6 % for benzodiazepines, and 5.6 % to 5.9 % for mood stabilizers.</div><div>Overall, a non negligible fraction of CHR-P participants is already under psychoactive pharmacological treatment at enrollment. The lack of consistent transparency in this respect may limit the effectiveness of prognostic models. Improved reporting practices are necessary to enhance precision in preventive psychiatry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12049,"journal":{"name":"European Neuropsychopharmacology","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 58-65"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143453098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}