Neuroglialpharmacology: myelination as a shared mechanism of action of psychotropic treatments.
Neuroglialpharmacology: myelination as a shared mechanism of action of psychotropic treatments.
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10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.01.015
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发表时间:
2012-06
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Bartzokis G
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Bartzokis G
Current psychiatric diagnostic schema segregate symptom clusters into discrete entities, however, large proportions of patients suffer from comorbid conditions that fit neither diagnostic nor therapeutic schema. Similarly, psychotropic treatments ranging from lithium and antipsychotics to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors have been shown to be efficacious in a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders ranging from autism, schizophrenia (SZ), depression, and bipolar disorder (BD) to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This apparent lack of specificity suggests that psychiatric symptoms as well as treatments may share aspects of pathophysiology and mechanisms of action that defy current symptom-based diagnostic and neuron-based therapeutic schema. A myelin-centered model of human brain function can help integrate these incongruities and provide novel insights into disease etiologies and treatment mechanisms. Available data are integrated herein to suggest that widely used psychotropic treatments ranging from antipsychotics and antidepressants to lithium and electroconvulsive therapy share complex signaling pathways such as Akt and glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) that affect myelination, its plasticity, and repair. These signaling pathways respond to neurotransmitters, neurotrophins, hormones, and nutrition, underlie intricate neuroglial communications, and may substantially contribute to the mechanisms of action and wide spectra of efficacy of current therapeutics by promoting myelination. Imaging and genetic technologies make it possible to safely and noninvasively test these hypotheses directly in humans and can help guide clinical trial efforts designed to correct myelination abnormalities. Such efforts may provide insights into novel avenues for treatment and prevention of some of the most prevalent and devastating human diseases. Pervasive brain myelination underlies neural network synchrony and our distinctiveness as a species. Psychiatric diagnoses may share deficits in myelin development, plasticity, or repair. Treatments act on neuroglial signaling pathways such as Akt and GSK3 that improve myelination. Treatment efficacy may derive from myelination-driven improved neural network synchronization. “Neuroglialpharmacology” encapsulates a paradigm shift in medication development strategy.
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