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Journal Article
Kappa opioid receptor availability predicts severity of anhedonia in schizophrenia
2024
Overview
The kappa opioid receptor (KOR) and its endogenous agonist dynorphin have been implicated in multiple psychiatric conditions including psychotic disorders. We tested the hypotheses that kappa expression is elevated and associated with psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. We measured kappa expression in unmedicated patients with schizophrenia (7 female, 6 male) and matched controls (7 female, 6 male) with positron emission tomography (PET). We also acquired a measurement of cumulative dopamine activity over the life span in the same subjects using neuromelanin sensitive MRI. We hypothesized that neuromelanin accumulation would be higher in patients than controls and that in patients there would be a positive association between KOR availability and neuromelanin accumulation. Fourteen patients and thirteen controls were enrolled. Whole brain dynamic PET imaging data using the KOR selective tracer [
18
F]LY245998 were acquired. Distribution volume (
V
T
) was measured with region of interest analysis in 14 brain regions. Neuromelanin accumulation in midbrain dopaminergic nuclei was assessed in the same subjects. Positive and negative symptoms were measured by a clinical psychologist. We did not observe group level differences in KOR expression, neuromelanin accumulation or relationships of these to positive symptoms. Unexpectedly, we did observe strong positive associations between KOR expression and symptoms of anhedonia in the patients (Pearson
r
> 0.7, uncorrected
p
< 0.01 in 8 cortical brain regions). We also observed moderate associations between KOR expression and neuromelanin levels in patients. In conclusion, we did not observe a relationship between kappa and symptoms of psychosis but the observed relationship to the negative symptom of anhedonia is in line with recent work testing kappa antagonism as a therapy for anhedonia in depression.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing,Nature Publishing Group
