Tablets of Fluvoxamine in dosage 100mg/day will be added to the treatment regimen and continued for 6 weeks

SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 (Disorder)

100mg/day, PO(in the mouth) each day during 6 weeks

fluvoxamine

Shaar Menashe Mental Health Center

Effect of Fluvoxamine on Cognition, Behavior, Symptoms and mRNA and Protein Expression in Schizophrenia Patients

Effect of Fluvoxamine Augmentation on Cognitive Function , Aggressive Behavior , Clinical Symptoms and mRNA and Protein Expression in Human Peripheral Mononuclear Blood Cells (PMC) in Medicated Schizophrenia Patients

Clinical state and cognitive function will be assessed prior to fluvoxamine treatment and then during the study period according to the flow sheet below.
Clinical assessment scales will include:Schedule for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS),Schedule for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS) Simpson Angus Scale for Extrapyramidal Side Effects (SA); Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scales (AIMS); Calgary Depression Scale ,Cognitive assessment will include:Mini Mental State Examination, Dot test , Modified , Digit Span, Finger Tap Test, modified, Wechsler memory tests, Computerized Cognitive Neuropsychological Battery:Computerized judgment of line orientation (CJOLO); Penn face memory test (PFMT); Visual object learning test (VOLT); Abstraction inhibition and working memory task (AIM), Identification of facial emotions (PEAT); Differentiation of facial emotion (EMDIF).
Behavioral and function assessment , Overt aggression Scale, GAF (DSM IV TR) Critical Events

Approx 50cc of blood will be taken at baseline,and 1,3 and 6 weeks after the start of fluvoxamine treatment.
Blood will be collected into heparinized tubes, kept on ice and transported to the laboratory. Blood samples will be processed to enable assay of PMC elements of interest, including chemokine receptors, G protein receptors such as the GABAA receptor , their regulators such as, PKC GSK3 RGS7 and neurotrophins such as BDNF.
Some of the serum will be frozen for subsequent analyses of antipsychotic drug and neurohormone concentration. The blood samples will be stored in the molecular neuropsychiatry laboratory at the Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa) under the supervision of the principal investigator, Prof. Henry Silver. The samples will be unnamed and numbered. They will be kept for a maximum of 10 years. The participants will be given the option to ask for the destruction of the samples at any time.

glutamic acid/غثيان

Effect of Fluvoxamine on Cognition, Behavior, Symptoms and mRNA and Protein Expression in Schizophrenia Patients

Effect of Glutathione on Blood Alcohol and Hangover Symptoms

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