Effects of Quetiapine on Ultrastructural Hippocampal and Neurochemical Changes in Patients With Bipolar Disorder: Searching for Antidepressant and Mood Stabilising Neurophysiology

Summary

The aim of the study was to determine the pharmacological induced equivalents of neurogenesis and synaptic sprouting in the hippocampus, localized volume changes, changes in water content and neurochemical changes in the medial temporal regions.

Timeline

Start

2007-12

Primary completion

2010-02

Completion

2010-12

Publications

• Background Basser PJ, Mattiello J, LeBihan D. Estimation of the effective self-diffusion tensor from the NMR spin echo. J Magn Reson B. 1994 Mar;103(3):247-54. doi: 10.1006/jmrb.1994.1037.
• Background Luo C, Xu H, Li XM. Quetiapine reverses the suppression of hippocampal neurogenesis caused by repeated restraint stress. Brain Res. 2005 Nov 23;1063(1):32-9. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.09.043. Epub 2005 Nov 4.
• Background Vieta E. Mood stabilization in the treatment of bipolar disorder: focus on quetiapine. Hum Psychopharmacol. 2005 Jun;20(4):225-36. doi: 10.1002/hup.689.

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