Fifty Years of Research on Schizophrenia: The Ascendance of the Glutamatergic Synapse.
Fifty Years of Research on Schizophrenia: The Ascendance of the Glutamatergic Synapse.
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10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20101481
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2020-12-01
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Balu DT
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Coyle JT;Ruzicka WB;Balu DT
In 1976, I (JTC) finished my psychiatric residency, received my first National Institutes of Health grant, opened my laboratory, and took responsibility for the Schizophrenia Outpatient Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Phipps Clinic, my first academic clinical responsibility. That year was a pivotal point in the evolution of scientific psychiatry, as the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia (1) was proposed, the first report of synaptic neurochemical pathology of schizophrenia appeared (2), and Eve Johnstone and colleagues first demonstrated cortical atrophy in schizophrenia using computerized axial tomography (3). In this overview article, we review the seminal advances that have fundamentally transformed how we understand the etiology of schizophrenia and related serious mental disorders over the past 50 years, which will thus transform psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. The 1970s witnessed the transition from the hegemony of psychoanalysis, with virtually every chairperson of an academic department of psychiatry in the United States being a psychoanalyst, to the rise of “biologic” psychiatry. However, biologic psychiatry might be more accurately designated “psychopharmacologic” psychiatry, as serendipitously discovered drugs found to be relatively effective treatments for serious mental disorders, including schizophrenia (neuroleptics), bipolar disorder (lithium), depression (tricyclics), and anxiety disorders (benzodiazepines), essentially guided research with an unspoken assumption that the mechanism of action of these drugs was closely linked to the pathophysiology of the disorders. Notably, the decade was ushered in by the award of the Nobel Prize to Julius Axelrod (my postdoctoral mentor) for the discovery that tricyclic antidepressants inhibit the uptake of norepinephrine into noradrenergic synaptic terminals (4)—and thus norepinephrine became the “depression” neurotransmitter (5). For example, chlorpromazine, the prototype antipsychotic, was initially developed as an adjunct to anesthesia. Noting its calming effects on surgical patients, the French psychiatrists Delay and Deniker (6) carried out a clinical trial of chlorpromazine in patients with schizophrenia and described striking improvements in thinking and behavior unrelated to sedation. Thepharmaceuticalindustryundertookstudiesinexperimental animals to identify the behavioral “signature” for the antipsychotic action of chlorpromazine to screen for more potent drugs with different side effect profiles. Over the next decade, several more potent antipsychotics, with different chemical structures, such as haloperidol, molindone, andfluphenazine, were introduced (7).In 1963, the Swedish pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson discovered that antipsychotic drugs interfere with dopamine signaling in the rat basal ganglia and proposed that their mechanism of therapeutic action is through blocking the dopamine receptor (8). In 1976, Solomon Snyder built on this observation to show that there is highly significant correlation between antipsychotics’ efficacy in the clinic and their affinity for the brain’s dopamine D2 receptor (9). This observation was the basis for the “dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia,” which proposed that do-
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作者:
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