期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 57, 期 7, 页码 802-808出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.12.027
关键词
schizophrenia; smoking; urges to smoke; cue reactivity; mecamylamine; human laboratory study
资金
- NIDA NIH HHS [K02-DA-16611, P50-DA-13334, R01-DA-14039, R01-DA-13672] Funding Source: Medline
Background: Rates of cigarette smoking in schizophrenia are higher than in the general population. To investigate differences insensitivity to smoking cues between schizophrenia and control subjects, we compared smoking cue reactivity (CR) in schizophrenia versus control smokers with and without pretreatment with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist mecamylamine (MEC). Methods. Smoking CR in schizophrenia (n = 22) and nonpsychiatric control (n = 20) smokers was determined using exposure to smoking pictures. Three doses of MEC (0, 5, and 10 mg/day) were administered during the 3 test weeks to determine the role of nAChRs in mediating the smoking CR response. Results: Eleven of 22 (50%) schizophrenia and 10 of 20 (50%) control smokers displayed smoking CR. Smoking CR was not significantly different between schizophrenia and control smokers in the placebo, (0 mg/day) condition, However, MEC pretreatment produced a dose-dependent reduction of CR in schizophrenia smokers compared with placebo. There was no significant effect of MEC on CR in control smokers. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that blockade of CR by MEC may be more robust in schizophrenia versus control smokers, possibly due to reduced nAChR levels in the brains of patients with schizophrenia.
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