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Glutamate levels and symptom burden in high-risk and first-episode schizophrenia: a dual-voxel study of the anterior cingulate cortex
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Background Reduced glutamatergic excitability of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been long suspected in schizophrenia; recent observations support low glutamatergic tone as the primary pathophysiology contributing to subtle early features of this illness, with a secondary disinhibition (higher glutamate tone) resulting in more prominent clinical symptoms later in its course. We sought to investigate whether people with genetic high risk (GHR) for schizophrenia have lower glutamate levels in the ACC than those at later stages of clinical high risk (CHR) and those with first-episode schizophrenia (FES), among whom symptoms are already prominent.Methods We recruited people with CHR, GHR, or FES, as well as healthy controls. Using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we determined glutamate levels in the perigenual ACC (pACC) and dorsal ACC (dACC) using a 3 T scanner.Results We recruited 302 people across multiple stages of psychosis, including 63 with CHR, 76 with GHR, and 96 with FES, as well as 67 healthy controls. Those with GHR had lower glutamate levels in the dACC than those with CHR, while those with CHR had higher glutamate levels in the pACC than those with FES. Higher disorganization, but not any other symptom domain, was associated with lower levels of glutamate in the GHR group (dACC and pACC) and in the CHR group (pACC).Limitations The cross-sectional design precluded inferences regarding individual clinical trajectory and resolution at 3 T was insufficient to separate spectra of glutamine from glutamate.Conclusion Reduced glutamatergic tone among people genetically predisposed to schizophrenia supports diminished excitability as an early feature of schizophrenia, contributing to the subtle symptom of disorganization across high-risk states. Higher glutamate levels become apparent when psychotic symptoms become prominent, possibly as a disinhibitory effect and, at the full-blown stage of psychosis, the relationship between glutamate concentrations and symptoms ceases to be simply linear.
Keywords:
MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-SPECTROSCOPY
CONSENSUS COGNITIVE BATTERY
PSYCHOSIS
METAANALYSIS
DISORGANIZATION
GABA
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