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Filter by:This phase 2, double blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study is to assess the safety and efficacy of miricorilant in obese adult with schizophrenia treated with antipsychotic medications.
Clinical objectives: estimate the common effect of the EfiKroniK physical exercise program for people with a set of Chronic diseases (solid cancers, hematological, schizophrenia and COPD), expressed in terms of functional capacity, quality of life and others results, regarding the standardized intervention of healthy habits 'Prescribe Healthy Living 'PVS. Implementation objectives: describe the adherence, continuity, adequacy and usefulness of EfiKroniK perceived by patients and professionals, with the purpose of designing implementation strategies, which will be evaluated in future trials. Design: clinical trial and implementation, pragmatic and randomized to two groups stratified by pathology, followed for 12 m. Participants: 370 patients diagnosed with solid cancers, hematological cancers, schizophrenia and COPD, in the most advanced stages. Scope: Hospital de Cruces, Basque Country University, Primary Care Research Unit of Bizkaia. Intervention: personalized exercise program for patients, supervised during 3 months by nursing in primary and autonomous care afterwards, with support from community resources. Reference group: PVS program, of proven effectiveness for the promotion of physical activity, diet and smoking cessation. Measurements: main measure of results: functional capacity at 3 months (6-minute test and submaximal running / running tests at foot to determine the speed of lactate thresholds) and quality of life at 6 and 12 months (SF-36 and specific questionnaires by pathology). Secondary variable results: physical and psychic symptomatology, biological markers, physical form and survival. Analysis: The common effect of the exercise will be estimated by comparing both groups by intention to treat, by means of analysis of the covariance of mixed effects for the changes observed at 3, 6 and 12 months adjusted for the baseline and possible confounders. Previously, a possible interaction effect between the pathology group and the effect of the intervention will be ruled out. The cost-effectiveness and cost-utility reasons.
The purpose of this study is to explore the experience with paliperidone palmitate 3-month formulation (PP3M) treatment of participants and their corresponding physicians, nurses and carers, to understand the impact of less frequent injections from their perspective.
The proposed study will be conducted to compare the efficacy of maintenance ECT (M-ECT) vs Clozapine in treatment resistant schizophrenia (TRS) in terms of change in psychopathology measures and cerebral hemodynamics.
Schizophrenia affects about 1% of the world's population. According to the WHO, it was one of the ten most worrying pathologies of the twenty-first century. The situation of psychic disability that results impacted the entire life course. This disease is characterized by positive symptoms (delirium, hallucination, psychotic agitation) and negative symptoms and disorganization (destructuring of thought, language and behavior). Cognitive disorders are easily measurable in the spectrum of schizophrenia and are quantifiable with some tools to measure the level of performance of the individual in different areas. In these patients apathy is found in one out of two cases (prevalence of 51%), so it is a widespread negative symptom. Apathy corresponds to a pathology of voluntary action that can exist in different forms, resulting from the alteration of one or more mechanisms. It is a predictor of functional outcomes, regardless of positive symptoms or depression. Studies of people with head injuries have found a link between frontal cognitive impairment and apathy. The recognition, the identification of the dimensional mechanisms of apathy and the understanding of the links with cognitive disorders are therefore a major issue in the improvement of the functional prognosis. Moreover, these mechanisms are currently little studied in the spectrum of schizophrenia. There are currently questionnaires to show the presence or absence of apathy, such as the Apathy Evaluation Scale or the Lille Apathy Rating Scale. However most scales offer a global apathy score and the proposed treatments are limited due to the difficulty in identifying the dimensions and understanding of the underlying mechanisms of their own. The potentiality of apathy to become a source of disability is now widely recognized. It is therefore important to consider the expression of this handicap in terms of the repercussions that this disorder may have on the daily lives of patients. There are questionnaires to measure the functional autonomy of patients with a psychic disorder. Apathy is also an obstacle to supporting patients in psychiatry. The lack of knowledge and underestimation of apathy and its mechanisms in schizophrenia, in addition to overworking the psychiatric health sector, favor a drift towards the institutionalization of the person, with its medico-economic consequences on the system.
The objective of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to compare the changes of the sleep-related memory functions in patients with psychosis after they have completed the 12-week high-intensity exercise intervention, the 12-week low-intensity exercise intervention, or the 12-week controlled non-exercise intervention respectively. Fifty-one patients with psychosis, patients who received either the high-intensity exercise or low-intensity exercise as intervention shown a significant improvement to their impaired sleep-related memory function, while those who received non-exercise intervention has no such improvement. Moreover, high-intensity exercise may have a more prominent effect compare to low-intensity exercise.
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder with a prevalence of approximately 1% worldwide. While effective in reducing positive symptoms, current treatments have limited effects on cognitive and social cognition/processing deficits of schizophrenia, which are closely linked to real-world dysfunction and lack of socio-occupational integration. There is compelling evidence for impaired antioxidant defense system and inflammatory abnormalities in schizophrenia. A new therapeutic approach to the disease might well be to hinder oxidative damage, inflammation and its clinical sequelae. Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a naturally occurring compound, synthesized in the mitochondria, that is currently approved to treat diabetic neuropathic pain. Drug repurposing is a fast, and cost-effective method that can overcome drug discovery challenges of targeting neuropsychiatric disorders. In a pilot investigation, adjunctive treatment with ALA led to robust improvement in negative and cognitive symptoms of ten patients with schizophrenia. This project aims to investigate the efficacy of ALA as a disease-modifying drug for the treatment of schizophrenia, by improving sociability and cognition, as well as to correlate patients' response with biomarkers that will shed light on the pathophysiology of this complex disease. It comprises 1) a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate efficacy of ALA to treat cognitive and negative symptoms of patients with schizophrenia and 2) an investigation of changes in biomarkers of oxidative stress in response to adjunctive treatment with ALA. The proposed study could establish a new adjunctive treatment for schizophrenia, recognize a novel pharmacological approach and help unveil the biological basis of the disease.
REMEDRUGBY's objective is to strengthen the capacity of users to interact with others in an assertive way and to fight against stigma. It proposes to specifically target the processes of "social cognition". "Social cognition" brings together the mental mechanisms that allow everyone to decipher the social situations, emotions and intentions of others and interact with others in the different contexts of everyday life. People with a psychic handicap frequently have difficulties in this area, which has often important consequences for their social and professional integration. The REMEDRUGBY program proposes to work specifically on these processes in the context of sport (+ role Play and blog) to strengthen the ability to interact with others and to deal with the stigma that can be encountered on a daily basis.
A randomized, double-blind sham-controlled trial of high frequency rTMS treatment for cognitive impairments in 120 chronic schizophrenia patients
The study group received antipsychotic drugs combined with Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CCRT) for 4 times/week for 45 minutes each time. The control group only received antipsychotic drugs. For a total of 12 weeks. Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and Tropomyosin-related kinase B (Trk B) genes in peripheral blood were detected in both groups before and after treatment. Clinical symptoms and executive function assessment were performed in both groups before and after treatment. The relevance of genes and their effects on downstream protein expression levels led to a molecular genetic mechanism for the efficacy of Computerized Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CCRT) .