Dose Response Relationship of Oxytocin on Irritability in Youths

Summary

The proposed study is a randomized, double-blind proof of concept (PoC) study on the neural impact of intranasal oxytocin (OXT) administration for adolescents (age 14 to 18), demonstrating a clinically significant level of irritability as defined by a score of ≥4 on the Affective Reactivity Index (ARI). Planned enrollment is 80 subjects over 3 years.

Timeline

Start

2022-02-18

Primary completion

2024-02-27

Completion

2024-02-27

Publications

• Background Lee MR, Scheidweiler KB, Diao XX, Akhlaghi F, Cummins A, Huestis MA, Leggio L, Averbeck BB. Oxytocin by intranasal and intravenous routes reaches the cerebrospinal fluid in rhesus macaques: determination using a novel oxytocin assay. Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Jan;23(1):115-122. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.27. Epub 2017 Mar 14.
• Background Beard R , Singh N , Grundschober C , Gee AD , Tate EW . High-yielding 18F radiosynthesis of a novel oxytocin receptor tracer, a probe for nose-to-brain oxytocin uptake in vivo. Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Jul 17;54(58):8120-8123. doi: 10.1039/c8cc01400k.
• Background Cochran DM, Fallon D, Hill M, Frazier JA. The role of oxytocin in psychiatric disorders: a review of biological and therapeutic research findings. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2013 Sep-Oct;21(5):219-47. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0b013e3182a75b7d.
• Background Kendrick KM, Guastella AJ, Becker B. Overview of Human Oxytocin Research. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2018;35:321-348. doi: 10.1007/7854_2017_19.
• Background Bos PA, Panksepp J, Bluthe RM, van Honk J. Acute effects of steroid hormones and neuropeptides on human social-emotional behavior: a review of single administration studies. Front Neuroendocrinol. 2012 Jan;33(1):17-35. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2011.01.002. Epub 2011 Jan 21.
• Background Insel TR. Translating Oxytocin Neuroscience to the Clinic: A National Institute of Mental Health Perspective. Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Feb 1;79(3):153-4. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.02.002. Epub 2015 Nov 16. No abstract available.
• Background Spengler FB, Schultz J, Scheele D, Essel M, Maier W, Heinrichs M, Hurlemann R. Kinetics and Dose Dependency of Intranasal Oxytocin Effects on Amygdala Reactivity. Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Dec 15;82(12):885-894. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.04.015. Epub 2017 May 10.
• Background Striepens N, Kendrick KM, Hanking V, Landgraf R, Wullner U, Maier W, Hurlemann R. Elevated cerebrospinal fluid and blood concentrations of oxytocin following its intranasal administration in humans. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 6;3:3440. doi: 10.1038/srep03440.
• Background Netherton E, Schatte D. Potential for oxytocin use in children and adolescents with mental illness. Hum Psychopharmacol. 2011 Jun-Jul;26(4-5):271-81. doi: 10.1002/hup.1212. Epub 2011 Jul 12.
• Background Leibenluft E. Pediatric Irritability: A Systems Neuroscience Approach. Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Apr;21(4):277-289. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.02.002. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
• Background Blair RJR. Traits of empathy and anger: implications for psychopathy and other disorders associated with aggression. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2018 Apr 19;373(1744):20170155. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0155.
• Background Grace SA, Rossell SL, Heinrichs M, Kordsachia C, Labuschagne I. Oxytocin and brain activity in humans: A systematic review and coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional MRI studies. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 Oct;96:6-24. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.031. Epub 2018 May 24.
• Background Leibenluft E, Stoddard J. The developmental psychopathology of irritability. Dev Psychopathol. 2013 Nov;25(4 Pt 2):1473-87. doi: 10.1017/S0954579413000722.
• Background Wiggins JL, Brotman MA, Adleman NE, Kim P, Oakes AH, Reynolds RC, Chen G, Pine DS, Leibenluft E. Neural Correlates of Irritability in Disruptive Mood Dysregulation and Bipolar Disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2016 Jul 1;173(7):722-30. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.15060833. Epub 2016 Feb 19.
• Background Hwang S, Nolan ZT, White SF, Williams WC, Sinclair S, Blair RJ. Dual neurocircuitry dysfunctions in disruptive behavior disorders: emotional responding and response inhibition. Psychol Med. 2016 May;46(7):1485-96. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716000118. Epub 2016 Feb 15.
• Background Hwang S, White SF, Nolan ZT, Sinclair S, Blair RJ. Neurodevelopmental changes in the responsiveness of systems involved in top down attention and emotional responding. Neuropsychologia. 2014 Sep;62:277-85. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.003. Epub 2014 Aug 13.
• Background Leppanen J, Ng KW, Kim YR, Tchanturia K, Treasure J. Meta-analytic review of the effects of a single dose of intranasal oxytocin on threat processing in humans. J Affect Disord. 2018 Jan 1;225:167-179. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.041. Epub 2017 Aug 17.
• Background Koch SB, van Zuiden M, Nawijn L, Frijling JL, Veltman DJ, Olff M. Intranasal Oxytocin Administration Dampens Amygdala Reactivity towards Emotional Faces in Male and Female PTSD Patients. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 May;41(6):1495-504. doi: 10.1038/npp.2015.299. Epub 2015 Sep 25.
• Background Wakschlag LS, Estabrook R, Petitclerc A, Henry D, Burns JL, Perlman SB, Voss JL, Pine DS, Leibenluft E, Briggs-Gowan ML. Clinical Implications of a Dimensional Approach: The Normal:Abnormal Spectrum of Early Irritability. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2015 Aug;54(8):626-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2015.05.016. Epub 2015 Jun 14.
• Background Eckstein M, Markett S, Kendrick KM, Ditzen B, Liu F, Hurlemann R, Becker B. Oxytocin differentially alters resting state functional connectivity between amygdala subregions and emotional control networks: Inverse correlation with depressive traits. Neuroimage. 2017 Apr 1;149:458-467. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.078. Epub 2017 Feb 1.
• Background Wynn JK, Green MF, Hellemann G, Reavis EA, Marder SR. A dose-finding study of oxytocin using neurophysiological measures of social processing. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2019 Jan;44(2):289-294. doi: 10.1038/s41386-018-0165-y. Epub 2018 Jul 28.
• Background Lefevre A, Mottolese R, Dirheimer M, Mottolese C, Duhamel JR, Sirigu A. A comparison of methods to measure central and peripheral oxytocin concentrations in human and non-human primates. Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 8;7(1):17222. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17674-7.
• Background Hwang S, White SF, Nolan ZT, Craig Williams W, Sinclair S, Blair RJ. Executive attention control and emotional responding in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder--A functional MRI study. Neuroimage Clin. 2015 Oct 9;9:545-54. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.10.005. eCollection 2015.
• Background White SF, Marsh AA, Fowler KA, Schechter JC, Adalio C, Pope K, Sinclair S, Pine DS, Blair RJ. Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features. Am J Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;169(7):750-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11081270.

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