Spectroscopic correlates of antidepressant response to sleep deprivation and light therapy: A 3.0 Tesla study of bipolar depression
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- 作者：Francesco Benedetti ; Giovanna Calabrese ; Aless ; ro Bernasconi ; Marcello Cadioli ; Cristina Colombo ; Sara Dallaspezia ; Andrea Falini ; Daniele Radaelli ; Giuseppe Scotti ; Enrico Smeraldi
- 关键词：Bipolar depression ; Proton spectroscopy ; Glx ; Chronotherapeutics ; Light therapy
- 刊名：Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
- 出版年：2009
- 出版时间：30 September 2009
- 年：2009
- 卷：173
- 期：3
- 页码：238-242
- 全文大小：319 K
文摘
Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter of the human brain, and recent findings suggest a role for the glutamatergic system in the pathophysiology and treatment of mood disorders. Single proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) was used to study the relative in vivo levels of brain neural metabolites. We evaluated the effect of antidepressant treatments on the relative concentration of unresolved glutamate and glutamine (Glx) with GABA contamination (2.35 ppm peak) using single voxel 1H-MRS at 3.0 Tesla. We studied 19 inpatients (7 males, 12 females) affected by bipolar disorder type I, current depressive episode without psychotic features, before and after 1 week of treatment with repeated total sleep deprivation (TSD) combined with light therapy (LT). Chronobiological treatment caused a significant amelioration in mood levels. Changes in the brain Glx/creatine ratio followed a general trend toward decrease, with individual variability. We observed that the decrease in the Glx/creatine ratio significantly correlated with the improvement of both objective and subjective measures of depression.