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Calculating The Induced Electric Current In a more elegant and rigorous application of this ap- In TheBrain proach buy generic plaquenil 200mg line, Desmurget and colleagues (64) used TMS and im- Although purchase 200 mg plaquenil with visa, typically, the spherical model has been used, this aging to test the role of the posterior parietal cortex in cor- assumes that the brain is a sphere with uniform conductivity recting the ongoing trajectory of movements (64). They inside spherical shells with different conductivities, corre- scanned healthy subjects while they pointed to visual targets sponding to the skull and scalp. One group has gone so far that either remained stationary or moved during saccadic as to use tissue segmentations based on MR images and eye movements. Then, using a functional image-based posi- estimates of gray and white matter and cerebrospinal fluid tioning system, they applied TMS over the left posterior from the literature and the theoretic field of the TMS coil to parietal cortex during stimulus target presentation. The perform finite element computations of the electric currents TMS disrupted the normal path corrections that occur in induced in individual brains (69). Thus, in this study, TMS indicated the computations of the electric currents were performed with necessary and critical role of an area in the performance special field computation software and a supercomputer of a behavior and extended the traditional observational (69). Although the assumptions of most computational imaging approach. The charge accu- CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR mulation on the tissue surface tends to cancel the perpendic- FUTURE RESEARCH ular component of the induced electric field, shielding the brain. This forces the resultant electric field to lie predomi- Transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with func- nantly parallel to the tissue surface and fall rapidly with tional imaging offers the promise of a better understanding depth (65–68). These observations are also expected to be of brain circuits and the causal relationship between behav- valid for models that more faithfully represent the actual iors and activity in distributed brain regions. Several studies shape and composition of the brain by treating it as a sum- with a variety of imaging modalities have begun to use this mation of finite elements. These studies have largely demonstrated that be- geneous conductivity of the brain, Cerri et al. Very matter, and cerebrospinal fluid, and a conductivity versus basic questions remain largely unexplored. These include gray level interpolation function derived from tissue con- how best to position the coil (functional behavioral versus ductivity data in the literature to obtain a three-dimensional probabilistic), how to adjust the intensity for nonmotor conductivity map. They then divided the brain into discrete areas of cortex, and whether to account for differences in resistive cells (quasistatic approximation) and used a super- depth into the brain (e. Additionally, a true computer to determine the current distribution that would understanding of TMS effects on the brain are still lacking, be induced in the three-dimensional resistive network by 408 Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress an external magnetic field pulse However, such methods of finding the solution space of A is called singular value are not generally available and are still an approximation. 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It is likely that some cognitive domains phisticated path analyses were used to test the associations have direct cheap plaquenil 200mg without prescription, causal relationships cheap plaquenil 200 mg on line, although others may be among positive symptoms, negative symptoms, cognition, related to functional outcome through mediators, such as and activities of daily living in two separate samples of social cognition or the application of knowledge and reason- schizophrenic patients. A global measure of cognition had ing to problem solving. Various causal models were tested in EFFECTS OF MEDICATIONS ON which certain pathways were omitted. The pathway from NEUROCOGNITIVE DEFICITS cognitive impairment to functional outcome was necessary in the model; the fit was poor when it was omitted. To One of the most surprising aspects of conventional antipsy- the extent that symptoms were correlated with functional chotic medications is that although they usually have a pro- outcome, the relationships seem to be indirect. In other found impact on psychotic symptoms, their effects on neu- Chapter 48: Neurocognitive Functioning in Patients with Schizophrenia 665 rocognitive deficits tend to be negligible (7,11,98). In many of these studies, a Occasionally, treatment with conventional antipsychotic single group was assessed at baseline while on a conventional medications has led to improvement in basic perceptual or medication and then assessed again after being switched to attentional processes (3,98). However, it can be concluded an atypical medication. Inferences from these types of stud- that changes in neurocognition, if they occur, are small ies are necessarily tentative because no control is made for compared with the changes in psychotic symptoms. A small num- terms of disability, this presents a rather unfortunate mis- ber of parallel group blinded studies are emerging for cloza- match in which the domain of illness most affected by con- pine (4,108), risperidone (44,62), and olanzapine (85). Anticholinergic medi- alternative explanations for treatment effects. For the most cations given for extrapyramidal side effects compromise part, studies have not been designed or analyzed in a way certain neurocognitive abilities. Although the range of ef- that allows one to rule out indirect effects. For example, if fects of anticholinergic medications is not well character- a newer antipsychotic medication has a better clinical effect ized, they may disrupt aspects of secondary verbal memory than a conventional medication, it may improve neurocog- that rely on rehearsal strategies (18). Other aspects of mem- nition as an indirect benefit of greater symptom reduction. Sev- less affected (4,38), and the effects on other neurocognitive eral studies have noted that changes in neurocognition ap- abilities, such as visual processing, are relatively unknown. An alternative explanation is that the neuro- appears to be more promising. Initial interest in the neuro- cognitive benefits of newer medications are mediated by a cognitive effects of new antipsychotic medications was stim- reduced need for anticholinergic medications. Although this ulated by a series of (mainly open-label) studies of clozapine may turn out be true in some instances, the differential use (4,38,47,53,67). The results of these studies were surprising of anticholinergic medications did not explain the effects in two respects: First, in most of the studies, clozapine treat- of risperidone on immediate and secondary verbal memory ment resulted in improvement in verbal fluency (i. The beneficial effects of newer medi- ability to generate words that begin with a certain letter or cations on neurocognition may be mediated by lower rates belong to a certain semantic category) and possibly psycho- of extrapyramidal symptoms. Second, the initiation of clozapine treatment effects will be seen in comparisons with very low doses of in some studies appeared to have at least short-term detri- conventional medications, when side effects are minimal. These studies (again, mostly transient D2 blockade remains a viable explanation of open-label) have generally shown that they have benefits for 'atypicality' (59). Thus, it is possible that the administra- neurocognition in comparison with conventional antipsy- tion of conventional neuroleptics in inappropriately high chotic medications. Indications of short-term detrimental doses resulted in a lack of improvement, although dose- effects, similar to those seen in some clozapine studies, have reduction studies do not support this explanation (93,97). A rather comprehensive review (72) and a met- mains obscure. In any event, a single neurotransmitter effect aanalysis (61) of the existing literature have both provided seems unlikely to account for the effects, which probably a basis for optimism about the beneficial neurocognitive involve a constellation of actions at serotonergic, adrenergic, effects of newer medications. The metaanalysis of Keefe et cholinergic, and dopaminergic receptors (72). The neuropsychological signature of cholinergic medications). Am J Psychiatry These medications were not developed or initially evaluated 1994;151:40–48. The generalized pattern of neuropsychological deficits in outpatients with chronic schizo- tive pharmacology specifically for neurocognitive deficits is phrenia with heterogeneous Wisconsin Card Sorting Test re- now receiving serious consideration. A key challenge for directing studies of adjunctive noso- 3. Effect of antipsychotic medication on tropic medications in schizophrenia is deciding which neu- speed of information processing in schizophrenic patients. The comparative efficacy ogy of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia.