<clinical_study>
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  <required_header>
    <download_date>ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023</download_date>
    <link_text>Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.</link_text>
    <url>https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03818516</url>
  </required_header>
  <id_info>
    <org_study_id>IRB00094972</org_study_id>
    <secondary_id>1K23MH114037-01A1</secondary_id>
    <nct_id>NCT03818516</nct_id>
  </id_info>
  <brief_title>Impact of Inflammation on Reward Circuits, Motivational Deficits and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia</brief_title>
  <official_title>Impact of Inflammation on Reward Circuits, Motivational Deficits and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia</official_title>
  <sponsors>
    <lead_sponsor>
      <agency>Emory University</agency>
      <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
    </lead_sponsor>
    <collaborator>
      <agency>National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)</agency>
      <agency_class>NIH</agency_class>
    </collaborator>
  </sponsors>
  <source>Emory University</source>
  <oversight_info>
    <has_dmc>Yes</has_dmc>
    <is_fda_regulated_drug>No</is_fda_regulated_drug>
    <is_fda_regulated_device>No</is_fda_regulated_device>
    <is_us_export>Yes</is_us_export>
  </oversight_info>
  <brief_summary>
    <textblock>
      This study will recruit persons with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and will use&#xD;
      an oral glucose tolerance test to test the hypothesis that insulin resistance drives&#xD;
      inflammation.&#xD;
    </textblock>
  </brief_summary>
  <detailed_description>
    <textblock>
      Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects 1% of the population, but accounts for&#xD;
      over $60 billion in costs to the national healthcare system. Negative symptoms of&#xD;
      schizophrenia, including motivational deficits, are some of the most debilitating aspects of&#xD;
      the disorder, being both difficult to treat and representing one of the most significant&#xD;
      barriers to functional recovery. One pathophysiologic pathway that may contribute to these&#xD;
      alterations in reward circuitry in schizophrenia is inflammation. Increased inflammation has&#xD;
      been reliably linked to deficits in reward processing and decreased motivation via effects of&#xD;
      inflammatory cytokines on regions of the basal ganglia, including the ventral striatum.&#xD;
      Previous findings show that some patients with schizophrenia reliably exhibit elevated&#xD;
      concentrations of inflammatory markers and that inflammatory cytokines may be related to&#xD;
      negative symptoms including decreased motivation. Relevant to the impact of inflammation on&#xD;
      insulin signaling, measures of insulin sensitivity are significantly worse in patients with&#xD;
      schizophrenia, including at illness onset. Moreover, antipsychotic medications lead to&#xD;
      metabolic syndrome, contributing to risk for insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes.&#xD;
      Insulin resistance is believed to be caused by increased inflammation, and in turn can&#xD;
      contribute to inflammation through alterations in glucose metabolism.&#xD;
&#xD;
      This study uses an oral glucose tolerance test to test the hypothesis that insulin resistance&#xD;
      drives inflammation. The researchers will recruit subjects with a range of insulin&#xD;
      resistance, as measured by the Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR).&#xD;
      This will allow the researchers to investigate the contributions of metabolic dysfunction and&#xD;
      inflammation on inflammatory and metabolic markers, brain reward circuitry, motivational&#xD;
      deficits, and negative symptoms.&#xD;
    </textblock>
  </detailed_description>
  <overall_status>Completed</overall_status>
  <start_date type="Actual">August 31, 2020</start_date>
  <completion_date type="Actual">March 1, 2022</completion_date>
  <primary_completion_date type="Actual">March 1, 2022</primary_completion_date>
  <phase>N/A</phase>
  <study_type>Interventional</study_type>
  <has_expanded_access>No</has_expanded_access>
  <study_design_info>
    <allocation>N/A</allocation>
    <intervention_model>Single Group Assignment</intervention_model>
    <primary_purpose>Basic Science</primary_purpose>
    <masking>None (Open Label)</masking>
  </study_design_info>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Fasting Blood Glucose</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fasting blood glucose will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Fasting Blood Insulin</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fasting blood insulin will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Plasma C-reactive Protein (CRP) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Plasma CRP will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)-alpha Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MultiAnalyte Profiling (MAP) Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. TNF-alpha levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Soluble TNF Receptor 2 (sTNFR2) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. sTNFR2 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-1RA levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-1beta levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-6 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Soluble Interleukin-6 Receptor (sIL-6R) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. sIL-6R levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Interleukin-10 (IL-10) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-10 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <primary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) Levels</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3</time_frame>
    <description>Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. MCP-1 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.</description>
  </primary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Finger Tapping Task (FTT) Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>The Finger Tapping Task (FTT) uses a specially adapted tapper that the subject is asked to tap as fast as possible. The subject is given 5 consecutive 10-second trials for the preferred and non-preferred hands.The FTT is design to assess subtle motor impairment and found to be altered in subjects with basal ganglia disorders and lesions. The finger tapping score is the mean number of taps of 5 trials and is computed for each hand.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) Reaction Time Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>This reaction time test includes simple and choice reaction time tasks and is divided into 5 stages requiring increasingly complex chains of responses and providing distinction between reaction (or decision) time and movement latencies. Movement times on the CANTAB reaction time task have been slowed during interferon-alpha (IFN-α) treatment and correlated with IFN-alpha-induced depression and fatigue.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Trail Making Test Part A (TMT-A) Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>The Trail Making Test-A is a timed task that provides information on motor function and speed of processing. In Part A of the TMT participants connect circles labeled with numbers, in ascending order. The score is the amount of time it takes for the participant to complete the task. The average time it takes to complete the task is 29 seconds and times longer than 78 seconds suggest a deficiency.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Digit Symbol Substitution Task (DSST) Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>The DSST is a subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and involves graphimotor speed, visual scanning and memory, with about half of the variance being accounted for by graphimotor speed, a third by visual scanning and 4-5% by memory. Performance on the Digit Symbol Test has been found to correlate with subcortical (caudate) atrophy in disorders involving the basal ganglia. Respondents match symbols to numbers using a key presented at the top of the test page. The score is the number of correctly entered symbols in the given time period and higher scores indicate better performance.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT) Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>EEfRT is a multi-trial game task assessing motivation in which participants choose between two different task difficulty levels in order to obtain monetary rewards. For all trials, participants make repeated manual button presses which raises the level of a virtual ''bar'' viewed onscreen by the participant. Participants are eligible to win the money allotted for each trial if they raise the bar to the ''top''. Each trial presents subjects with a choice between 'high effort' and 'low effort' task that require different amounts of button pressing. Reward magnitudes for the high effort task vary between amounts, while reward magnitudes for the low effort task remain constant. Trials also vary in terms of 3 levels of probability of winning the amount associated with the choice selected. The first 50 trials are used for analysis. The proportion of hard-task choices across each level of probability is calculated. Lower proportions of hard task choices indicate decreased motivation.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Profile of Mood States (POMS) Brief Score</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 1</time_frame>
    <description>The POMS is a 30-item rating scale designed to measure mood states across short periods of time. The POMS assess six mood factors: Tension-Anxiety, Depression-Dejection, Anger-Hostility, Vigor-Activity, Fatigue-Inertia, and Confusion-Bewilderment. Each item is rated on a 5-point scale where 0 = not at all and 4 = extremely. Total scores range from 0 to 120 and lower scores indicate a better state of mood.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in neural response to anticipating and receiving monetary rewards assessed by Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) Task</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 3</time_frame>
    <description>Assessment of reward anticipation will be achieved using the MID task, conducted during functional MRI (fMRI) neuroimaging. Briefly, during this task participants have the opportunity to win or lose money by making a rapid button press in response to a target visual stimulus. The primary epoch of interest is the &quot;anticipatory delay&quot; - a period of ~2000ms that occurs after participants have been informed how much money they can win or lose on a given trial, but prior to the presentation of the target. This epoch has repeatedly been associated with robust ventral striatal activity. Participants will complete 2 functional runs of between 50 and 200 trials each (the number of trials will be decided at the discretion of the PI), with evenly distributed reward magnitudes.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in Resting State Scan</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 3</time_frame>
    <description>For the resting state and task based functional connectivity analysis, whole brain, subject-level correlation maps indicating regional similarity with the striatal seed region time series will be generated and Fisher transformed to Z-score maps. In addition, data reduction strategies will be employed to address inflammatory marker collinearity in analyses combining relevant inflammatory markers. To assess significance of correlated activity with each bilateral seed region, paired t-tests will be conducted on participants' Z-score maps, adjusted for multiple comparisons. For significant brain regions, descriptive statistics will be used to characterize the mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the Z scores.</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <secondary_outcome>
    <measure>Change in neural response to reward motivation assessed by fMRI-adapted version of the EEfRT</measure>
    <time_frame>Baseline, Hour 3</time_frame>
    <description>Assessment of effort based decision making will be made using the EEfRT task adapted for fMRI. During each trial, subjects are presented with a choice between two levels of task difficulty, a High Effort option and a Low Effort option. Unlike in the behavioral version of the task, subjects will not be required to make button presses during the scan. The reward magnitude for a No Effort option remains constant, while the reward magnitude for the High Effort option varies. Additionally, the amount of effort required for the High Effort option will vary between 20%, 50%, 80% and 100% of the subject's maximum effort (set for each individual prior to scan).</description>
  </secondary_outcome>
  <number_of_arms>1</number_of_arms>
  <enrollment type="Actual">12</enrollment>
  <condition>Schizophrenia</condition>
  <arm_group>
    <arm_group_label>Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)</arm_group_label>
    <arm_group_type>Experimental</arm_group_type>
    <description>Medically stable participants with schizophrenia and a range of insulin resistance will have an oral glucose tolerance test.</description>
  </arm_group>
  <intervention>
    <intervention_type>Other</intervention_type>
    <intervention_name>Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)</intervention_name>
    <description>Participants will undergo a fasting blood draw for inflammatory and metabolic markers before a 75gm oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and at 1, 2 and 3 hours post-OGTT. Behavioral assessments will also be administered pre- and post-OGTT administration.</description>
    <arm_group_label>Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)</arm_group_label>
  </intervention>
  <eligibility>
    <criteria>
      <textblock>
        Inclusion Criteria:&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Willing and able to give written informed consent&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  A primary diagnosis of schizophrenia, per the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of&#xD;
             Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5), or schizoaffective disorder as diagnosed by the Mini&#xD;
             International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) 7.0&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Mini Mental Status Examination Score ≥24&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Brief Negative Symptom Scale Score ≥25&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  No psychotropic medication changes for one month prior to study enrollment; may be&#xD;
             taking other psychotropic non-antipsychotic medications (i.e., antidepressants, mood&#xD;
             stabilizers, benzodiazepines)&#xD;
&#xD;
        Exclusion Criteria:&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Evidence of untreated or poorly controlled endocrine, thyroid, cardiovascular,&#xD;
             hematological, renal, neurological disease, hepatitis B or C or HIV&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Current HbA1C ≥ 8.5%&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Prior treatment with antiviral or immunomodulatory drugs, including corticosteroids&#xD;
             within six months of study entry&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Current treatment with antibiotics&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Primary diagnosis of major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Active abuse of alcohol or illicit/prescription drugs within the past 6 months&#xD;
             including a urine toxicology screen positive for drugs of abuse (patients may still be&#xD;
             included with a positive tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) result at the discretion of the&#xD;
             PI)&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Predominant left-handedness excluded for portions of the MRI scan&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Wide Range Achievement Test-3 Reading Scale (WRAT-3) score indicating less than 8th&#xD;
             grade reading level, unless otherwise approved by the PI or PI's designee&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Any other condition which in the opinion of the investigator would make the patient&#xD;
             unsuitable for enrollment, or could interfere with participating in or completing the&#xD;
             protocol&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  History of central nervous system trauma or active seizure disorder requiring&#xD;
             medication&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Positive pregnancy test&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Presence of metal in the body (excludes from MRI scan only)&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Active suicidal ideation as determined by the PI and/or study staff&#xD;
&#xD;
          -  Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus&#xD;
      </textblock>
    </criteria>
    <gender>All</gender>
    <minimum_age>18 Years</minimum_age>
    <maximum_age>59 Years</maximum_age>
    <healthy_volunteers>No</healthy_volunteers>
  </eligibility>
  <overall_official>
    <last_name>David Goldsmith, MD</last_name>
    <role>Principal Investigator</role>
    <affiliation>Emory University</affiliation>
  </overall_official>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30030</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Grady Health System (non-CRN), Grady Health System (CRN), Ponce Center</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30303</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Emory Clinic, Emory University Hospital</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30322</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Emory University Clinical Research Network</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30322</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Emory University</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30322</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location>
    <facility>
      <name>Emory Universtiy</name>
      <address>
        <city>Atlanta</city>
        <state>Georgia</state>
        <zip>30322</zip>
        <country>United States</country>
      </address>
    </facility>
  </location>
  <location_countries>
    <country>United States</country>
  </location_countries>
  <verification_date>August 2023</verification_date>
  <study_first_submitted>January 19, 2019</study_first_submitted>
  <study_first_submitted_qc>January 24, 2019</study_first_submitted_qc>
  <study_first_posted type="Actual">January 28, 2019</study_first_posted>
  <last_update_submitted>August 22, 2023</last_update_submitted>
  <last_update_submitted_qc>August 22, 2023</last_update_submitted_qc>
  <last_update_posted type="Actual">August 24, 2023</last_update_posted>
  <responsible_party>
    <responsible_party_type>Principal Investigator</responsible_party_type>
    <investigator_affiliation>Emory University</investigator_affiliation>
    <investigator_full_name>David Goldsmith</investigator_full_name>
    <investigator_title>Assistant Professor</investigator_title>
  </responsible_party>
  <keyword>Inflammation</keyword>
  <keyword>Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)</keyword>
  <keyword>Negative Symptoms</keyword>
  <condition_browse>
    <!-- CAUTION:  The following MeSH terms are assigned with an imperfect algorithm            -->
    <mesh_term>Inflammation</mesh_term>
    <mesh_term>Schizophrenia</mesh_term>
  </condition_browse>
  <patient_data>
    <sharing_ipd>No</sharing_ipd>
  </patient_data>
  <provided_document_section>
    <provided_document>
      <document_type>Informed Consent Form</document_type>
      <document_has_protocol>No</document_has_protocol>
      <document_has_icf>Yes</document_has_icf>
      <document_has_sap>No</document_has_sap>
      <document_date>December 7, 2020</document_date>
      <document_url>https://ClinicalTrials.gov/ProvidedDocs/16/NCT03818516/ICF_000.pdf</document_url>
    </provided_document>
  </provided_document_section>
  <!-- Results have not yet been posted for this study                                          -->
</clinical_study>


download date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023
link text: Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03818516
org study id: IRB00094972
secondary id: 1K23MH114037-01A1
nct id: NCT03818516
lead sponsor: 
collaborator: 
has dmc: Yes
is fda regulated drug: No
is fda regulated device: No
is us export: Yes
This study will recruit persons with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and will use
      an oral glucose tolerance test to test the hypothesis that insulin resistance drives
      inflammation.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects 1% of the population, but accounts for
      over $60 billion in costs to the national healthcare system. Negative symptoms of
      schizophrenia, including motivational deficits, are some of the most debilitating aspects of
      the disorder, being both difficult to treat and representing one of the most significant
      barriers to functional recovery. One pathophysiologic pathway that may contribute to these
      alterations in reward circuitry in schizophrenia is inflammation. Increased inflammation has
      been reliably linked to deficits in reward processing and decreased motivation via effects of
      inflammatory cytokines on regions of the basal ganglia, including the ventral striatum.
      Previous findings show that some patients with schizophrenia reliably exhibit elevated
      concentrations of inflammatory markers and that inflammatory cytokines may be related to
      negative symptoms including decreased motivation. Relevant to the impact of inflammation on
      insulin signaling, measures of insulin sensitivity are significantly worse in patients with
      schizophrenia, including at illness onset. Moreover, antipsychotic medications lead to
      metabolic syndrome, contributing to risk for insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes.
      Insulin resistance is believed to be caused by increased inflammation, and in turn can
      contribute to inflammation through alterations in glucose metabolism.

      This study uses an oral glucose tolerance test to test the hypothesis that insulin resistance
      drives inflammation. The researchers will recruit subjects with a range of insulin
      resistance, as measured by the Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR).
      This will allow the researchers to investigate the contributions of metabolic dysfunction and
      inflammation on inflammatory and metabolic markers, brain reward circuitry, motivational
      deficits, and negative symptoms.
allocation: N/A
intervention model: Single Group Assignment
primary purpose: Basic Science
masking: None (Open Label)
measure: Change in Fasting Blood Glucose
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fasting blood glucose will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.
measure: Change in Fasting Blood Insulin
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fasting blood insulin will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.
measure: Change in Plasma C-reactive Protein (CRP) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Plasma CRP will be assessed to determine the impact of insulin resistance on inflammatory markers.
measure: Change in Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF)-alpha Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MultiAnalyte Profiling (MAP) Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. TNF-alpha levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Soluble TNF Receptor 2 (sTNFR2) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. sTNFR2 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-1RA levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-1beta levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Interleukin-6 (IL-6) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-6 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Soluble Interleukin-6 Receptor (sIL-6R) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. sIL-6R levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Interleukin-10 (IL-10) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. IL-10 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 (MCP-1) Levels
time frame: Baseline, Hours 1, 2, and 3
description: Fluorokine MAP Multiplex Human Biomarker Panels will be used to measure plasma inflammatory markers that have been found to be altered in schizophrenia. MCP-1 levels before and after the OGTT will be examined.
measure: Change in Finger Tapping Task (FTT) Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: The Finger Tapping Task (FTT) uses a specially adapted tapper that the subject is asked to tap as fast as possible. The subject is given 5 consecutive 10-second trials for the preferred and non-preferred hands.The FTT is design to assess subtle motor impairment and found to be altered in subjects with basal ganglia disorders and lesions. The finger tapping score is the mean number of taps of 5 trials and is computed for each hand.
measure: Change in Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) Reaction Time Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: This reaction time test includes simple and choice reaction time tasks and is divided into 5 stages requiring increasingly complex chains of responses and providing distinction between reaction (or decision) time and movement latencies. Movement times on the CANTAB reaction time task have been slowed during interferon-alpha (IFN-α) treatment and correlated with IFN-alpha-induced depression and fatigue.
measure: Change in Trail Making Test Part A (TMT-A) Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: The Trail Making Test-A is a timed task that provides information on motor function and speed of processing. In Part A of the TMT participants connect circles labeled with numbers, in ascending order. The score is the amount of time it takes for the participant to complete the task. The average time it takes to complete the task is 29 seconds and times longer than 78 seconds suggest a deficiency.
measure: Change in Digit Symbol Substitution Task (DSST) Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: The DSST is a subtest of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and involves graphimotor speed, visual scanning and memory, with about half of the variance being accounted for by graphimotor speed, a third by visual scanning and 4-5% by memory. Performance on the Digit Symbol Test has been found to correlate with subcortical (caudate) atrophy in disorders involving the basal ganglia. Respondents match symbols to numbers using a key presented at the top of the test page. The score is the number of correctly entered symbols in the given time period and higher scores indicate better performance.
measure: Change in Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT) Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: EEfRT is a multi-trial game task assessing motivation in which participants choose between two different task difficulty levels in order to obtain monetary rewards. For all trials, participants make repeated manual button presses which raises the level of a virtual ''bar'' viewed onscreen by the participant. Participants are eligible to win the money allotted for each trial if they raise the bar to the ''top''. Each trial presents subjects with a choice between 'high effort' and 'low effort' task that require different amounts of button pressing. Reward magnitudes for the high effort task vary between amounts, while reward magnitudes for the low effort task remain constant. Trials also vary in terms of 3 levels of probability of winning the amount associated with the choice selected. The first 50 trials are used for analysis. The proportion of hard-task choices across each level of probability is calculated. Lower proportions of hard task choices indicate decreased motivation.
measure: Change in Profile of Mood States (POMS) Brief Score
time frame: Baseline, Hour 1
description: The POMS is a 30-item rating scale designed to measure mood states across short periods of time. The POMS assess six mood factors: Tension-Anxiety, Depression-Dejection, Anger-Hostility, Vigor-Activity, Fatigue-Inertia, and Confusion-Bewilderment. Each item is rated on a 5-point scale where 0 = not at all and 4 = extremely. Total scores range from 0 to 120 and lower scores indicate a better state of mood.
measure: Change in neural response to anticipating and receiving monetary rewards assessed by Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) Task
time frame: Baseline, Hour 3
description: Assessment of reward anticipation will be achieved using the MID task, conducted during functional MRI (fMRI) neuroimaging. Briefly, during this task participants have the opportunity to win or lose money by making a rapid button press in response to a target visual stimulus. The primary epoch of interest is the "anticipatory delay" - a period of ~2000ms that occurs after participants have been informed how much money they can win or lose on a given trial, but prior to the presentation of the target. This epoch has repeatedly been associated with robust ventral striatal activity. Participants will complete 2 functional runs of between 50 and 200 trials each (the number of trials will be decided at the discretion of the PI), with evenly distributed reward magnitudes.
measure: Change in Resting State Scan
time frame: Baseline, Hour 3
description: For the resting state and task based functional connectivity analysis, whole brain, subject-level correlation maps indicating regional similarity with the striatal seed region time series will be generated and Fisher transformed to Z-score maps. In addition, data reduction strategies will be employed to address inflammatory marker collinearity in analyses combining relevant inflammatory markers. To assess significance of correlated activity with each bilateral seed region, paired t-tests will be conducted on participants' Z-score maps, adjusted for multiple comparisons. For significant brain regions, descriptive statistics will be used to characterize the mean, standard deviation, and standard error of the Z scores.
measure: Change in neural response to reward motivation assessed by fMRI-adapted version of the EEfRT
time frame: Baseline, Hour 3
description: Assessment of effort based decision making will be made using the EEfRT task adapted for fMRI. During each trial, subjects are presented with a choice between two levels of task difficulty, a High Effort option and a Low Effort option. Unlike in the behavioral version of the task, subjects will not be required to make button presses during the scan. The reward magnitude for a No Effort option remains constant, while the reward magnitude for the High Effort option varies. Additionally, the amount of effort required for the High Effort option will vary between 20%, 50%, 80% and 100% of the subject's maximum effort (set for each individual prior to scan).
arm group label: Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
arm group type: Experimental
description: Medically stable participants with schizophrenia and a range of insulin resistance will have an oral glucose tolerance test.
intervention type: Other
intervention name: Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
description: Participants will undergo a fasting blood draw for inflammatory and metabolic markers before a 75gm oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and at 1, 2 and 3 hours post-OGTT. Behavioral assessments will also be administered pre- and post-OGTT administration.
arm group label: Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)
criteria: 
gender: All
minimum age: 18 Years
maximum age: 59 Years
healthy volunteers: No
last name: David Goldsmith, MD
role: Principal Investigator
affiliation: Emory University
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country: United States
responsible party type: Principal Investigator
investigator affiliation: Emory University
investigator full name: David Goldsmith
investigator title: Assistant Professor
mesh term: Inflammation
mesh term: Schizophrenia
sharing ipd: No
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