J 2014

Psychosis effect on hippocampal reduction in schizophrenia

HÝŽA, Martin, Jitka HÜTTLOVÁ, Miloš KEŘKOVSKÝ and Tomáš KAŠPÁREK

Basic information

Original name

Psychosis effect on hippocampal reduction in schizophrenia

Name in Czech

Efekt psychózy na redukci objemu hippokampů u schizofrenie

Authors

HÝŽA, Martin (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jitka HÜTTLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Miloš KEŘKOVSKÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš KAŠPÁREK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Oxford, Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd. 2014, 0278-5846

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30000 3. Medical and Health Sciences

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.689

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/14:00075026

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

UT WoS

000328074200027

Keywords (in Czech)

hipokampus; morfometrie; psychóza; schizofrenie; toxicita

Keywords in English

hippocampus; morphometry; psychosis; schizophrenia; toxicity

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 4/3/2014 17:03, Soňa Böhmová

Abstract

V originále

Introduction: In schizophrenia, disruption of the neurodevelopmental processes may lead to brain changes and subsequent clinical manifestations of the illness. Reports of the progressive nature of these morphological brain changes raise questions about their causes. The possible toxic effects of repeated stressful psychotic episodes may contribute to the disease progression. Objectives: To analyze the influence of illness duration and previous psychotic episodes on hippocampal gray matter volume (GMV) in schizophrenia. Methods: We performed an analysis of hippocampal GMV correlations with illness duration, number of previous psychotic episodes, and age in 24 schizophrenia patients and 24 matched healthy controls. Results: We found a cluster of GMV voxels in the left hippocampal tail that negatively correlated with the number of previous psychotic episodes, independent from the effect of age. On the other hand we found no effect of illness duration independent of age on the hippocampal GMV. Finally, we found a cluster of significant group-by-age interaction in the left hippocampal head. Conclusions: We found an additive adverse effect of psychotic episodes on hippocampal morphology in schizophrenia. Our findings support toxicity of psychosis concept, together with etiological heterogeneity of brain changes in schizophrenia.