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2014
Psychosis effect on hippocampal reduction in schizophrenia
HÝŽA, Martin, Jitka HÜTTLOVÁ, Miloš KEŘKOVSKÝ and Tomáš KAŠPÁREKBasic 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
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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.