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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 329-335Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001046
Keywords
antipsychotic; dopamine D-2 receptor; maintenance treatment; schizophrenia
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- Nakatomi Foundation
- Keio Fukuzawa Fund
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Purpose/Background Patients with schizophrenia as well as their psychiatrists are hesitant to reduce the antipsychotic dose in fear of relapse. To overcome such dilemmas, we developed models to individually calculate an oral dose that corresponds to a given target dopamine D-2 receptor occupancy. Methods/Procedures In this pilot, 52-week single-blind randomized controlled trial, 35 clinically stable patients with schizophrenia receiving either risperidone or olanzapine monotherapy were randomly assigned to dose reduction (n = 17) or dose maintenance group (n = 18). In the former group, baseline doses were reduced to the doses corresponding to 65% D-2 occupancy (the lower end of therapeutic window) at trough that were calculated from randomly collected plasma concentrations using our models. Findings/Results In the dose reduction group, doses of risperidone and olanzapine were decreased from 4.2 +/- 1.9 to 1.4 +/- 0.4 and 12.8 +/- 3.9 to 6.7 +/- 1.8 mg/d, whereas the doses in the dose maintenance group were 4.3 +/- 1.9 and 15.8 +/- 4.6 mg/d, respectively. Twelve subjects (70.5%) and 13 subjects (72.2%) in the dose reduction and dose maintenance groups completed the study (P = 0.604), whereas 3 subjects (18.8%) and none dropped out because of clinical worsening in the dose reduction and dose maintenance groups, respectively. There were not significant differences in score changes in Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale between the 2 groups but in Positive subscale scores in the Clinical Global Impression-Schizophrenia (0.4 +/- 0.7 in the dose reduction group vs -0.1 +/- 0.7 in the dose maintenance group, P = 0.029).
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