Schizophrenia
Cannabidiol Prevents Disruptions in Sensorimotor Gating Induced by Psychotomimetic Drugs That Last for 24-h with Probable Involvelment of Epigenetic Changes in the Ventral Striatum
Joao F.C. Pedrazzi, Amanda J. Sales, Francisco S. Guimaraes, Samia R. L. Joca, Jose A.S. Crippa, Elaine Del Bel (May 2021)
Cannabidiol (CBD), a major non-psychotomimetic component of the Cannabis sativa plant, shows therapeutic potential in several psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. The molecular mechanisms underlying the antipsychotic-like effects of CBD are not fully understood. Schizophrenia and antipsychotic treatment can modulate DNA methylation in the blood and brain, resulting in altered expression of diverse genes associated with this complex disorder. However, to date, the possible involvement of DNA methylation in the antipsychotic-like effects of CBD has not been investigated. Therefore, this study aimed at evaluating in mice submitted to the prepulse inhibition (PPI) model: i) the effects of a single injection of CBD or clozapine followed by AMPH or MK-801 on PPI and global DNA methylation changes in the ventral striatum and prefrontal cortex (PFC); and ii). if the acute antipsychotic-like effects of CBD would last for 24-h.
Altogether, the results show that CBD induces acute antipsychotic-like effects that last for 24-h. It also modulates DNA methylation in the ventral striatum, suggesting a new potential mechanism for its antipsychotic-like effects.
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Preclinical and Clinical Evidence Supporting Use of Cannabidiol in Psychiatry
Gioacchino Calapai, Carmen Mannucci, Ioanna Chinou, Luigi Cardia, Fabrizio Calapai, Emanuela Elisa Sorbara, Bernardo Firenzuoli, Valdo Ricca, Gian Franco Gensini and Fabio Firenzuoli (September 2019)
Preclinical and clinical studies on potential role of CBD in psychiatry were collected and further discussed. We found four clinical studies describing the effects of CBD in psychiatric patients: two studies about schizophrenic patients and the other two studies carried out on CBD effects in patients affected by generalized social anxiety disorder (SAD). Conclusion. Results from these studies are promising and suggest that CBD may have a role in the development of new therapeutic strategies in mental diseases, and they justify an in-depth commitment in this field. However, clinical evidence we show for CBD in psychiatric patients is instead still poor and limited to schizophrenia and anxiety, and it needs to be implemented with further studies carried out on psychiatric patients.
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Cannabidiol Improves Behavioural and Neurochemical Deficits in Adult Female Offspring of the Maternal Immune Activation (poly I:C) Model of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Ashleigh L. Osborne, Nadia Solowij, Ilijana Babic, Jeremy S.Lum, Xu-Feng Huang, Kelly A. Newell and Katrina Weston-Green (July 2019)
Cognitive impairment is a major source of disability in schizophrenia and current antipsychotic drugs (APDs) have minimal efficacy for this symptom domain. Cannabidiol (CBD), the major non-intoxicating component of Cannabis sativa L., exhibits antipsychotic and neuroprotective properties. We recently reported the effects of CBD on cognition in male offspring of a maternal immune activation (polyinosinic-polycytidilic acid (poly I:C)) model relevant to the aetiology of schizophrenia; however, the effects of CBD treatment in females are unknown. Sex differences are observed in the onset of schizophrenia symptoms and response to APD treatment.
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The Potential of Cannabidiol as a Treatment for Psychosis and Addiction: Who Benefits Most? A Systematic Review
Albert Batalla, Hella Janssen, Shiral S. Gangadin and Matthijs G. Bossong (July 2019)
The endogenous cannabinoid (eCB) system plays an important role in the pathophysiology of both psychotic disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs). The non-psychoactive cannabinoid compound, cannabidiol (CBD) is a highly promising tool in the treatment of both disorders. Here we review human clinical studies that investigated the efficacy of CBD treatment for schizophrenia, substance use disorders, and their comorbidity. In particular, we examined possible profiles of patients who may benefit the most from CBD treatment. CBD, either as monotherapy or added to regular antipsychotic medication, improved symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, with particularly promising effects in the early stages of illness. A potential biomarker is the level of anandamide in blood. CBD and THC mixtures showed positive effects in reducing short-term withdrawal and craving in cannabis use disorders. Studies on schizophrenia and comorbid substance use are lacking. Future studies should focus on the effects of CBD on psychotic disorders in different stages of illness, together with the effects on comorbid substance use. These studies should use standardized measures to assess cannabis use. In addition, future efforts should be taken to study the relationship between the eCB system, GABA/glutamate, and the immune system to reveal the underlying neurobiology of the effects of CBD.
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Cannabis and Psychosis: Are We any Closer to Understanding the Relationship?
Ian Hamilton and Mark Mongaghan (June 2019)
This paper provides an update from the literature on understanding of the relationship between cannabis and schizophrenia. In particular, the paper focuses on the latest findings and remaining areas that require investigation. Three hypotheses have emerged as potential explanations for the association between cannabis and schizophrenia, namely cannabis can trigger schizophrenia, cannabis is used to mitigate symptoms of schizophrenia, and there are common factors which might account for the association. Biological and genetic factors dominate this field of research; this has been at the expense of exploring social and cultural contributory factors which influence cannabis and schizophrenia.
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GWAS of Lifetime Cannabis Use Reveals New Risk Loci, Genetic Overlap with Psychiatric Traits, and a Causal Influence of Schizophrenia
Joëlle A. Pasman, Karin J. H. Verweij, Jacqueline M. Vink (August 2018)
Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to date (N = 184,765), we identified eight genome-wide significant independent single nucleotide polymorphisms in six regions. All measured genetic variants combined explained 11% of the variance. Gene-based tests revealed 35 significant genes in 16 regions, and S-PrediXcan analyses showed that 21 genes had different expression levels for cannabis users versus nonusers. The strongest finding across the different analyses was CADM2, which has been associated with substance use and risk-taking. Significant genetic correlations were found with 14 of 25 tested substance use and mental health–related traits, including smoking, alcohol use, schizophrenia and risk-taking. Mendelian randomization analysis showed evidence for a causal positive influence of schizophrenia risk on cannabis use. Overall, our study provides new insights into the etiology of cannabis use and its relation with mental health.
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Cannabidiol administered during peri-adolescence prevents behavioral abnormalities in an animal model of schizophrenia
Fernanda F. Peres, Mariana Diana, Raquel Levin, Mayra Suiama, Valéria Almeida, Ana Vendramini, Antonio W. Zuardi, Jaime Hallak, José Alexandre Crippa and Vanessa C. Abilio (July 2018)
Schizophrenia is considered a debilitating neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorder and its pharmacotherapy remains problematic without recent major advances. The development of interventions able to prevent the emergence of schizophrenia would therefore represent an enormous progress. Here, we investigated whether treatment with cannabidiol (CBD – a compound of Cannabis sativa that presents an antipsychotic profile in animals and humans) during peri-adolescence would prevent schizophrenia-like behavioral abnormalities in an animal model of schizophrenia: the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) strain. Wistar rats and SHRs were treated with vehicle or CBD from 30 to 60 post-natal days.
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The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 1 Regulates Striatal Dopamine Release via an Endocannabinoid-Dependent Mechanism: Implications for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Samantha Yohn, Daniel Covey, Daniel Foster, Mark Moehle, Jordan Galbraith, Joseph Cheer, Craig Lindsley and P Jeffrey Conn (April 2018)
Clinical and preclinical studies suggest that selective activators of the muscarinic M4 receptor have exciting potential as a novel approach for treatment of schizophrenia. M4 reduces striatal dopamine (DA) though release of endocannabinoids (eCB), providing a mechanism for local effects on DA signaling in the striatum. M4 signals through Gαi/o and does not couple to Gαq/11 or induce calcium (Ca++) mobilization. This raises the possibility that M4-induced eCB release and inhibition of DA release may require co-activation of another receptor that activates Gαq/11.
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Cannabidiol as a Treatment in Different Stages of Psychosis – Efficacy and Mechanisms
Sagnik Bhattacharyya (April 2018)
The absence of significant adverse effects associated with CBD, is a critical advantage in relation to the treatment of patients in the various stages of psychosis. Given its tolerability profile, CBD is a treatment of particular interest not just in those with chronic psychosis as in schizophrenia, but also in those in the earlier stages of psychosis.
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Possible Mechanisms Involved in the Antipsychotic Effects of Cannabidiol (CBD)
Jose Alexandre Crippa, Antonio Waldo Zuardi and Francisco Silveira Guimaraes (April 2018)
Since CBD is also a potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and neuroprotective compound, it is possible that these effects are involved in its antipsychotic action. CBD could facilitate endocannabinoids “on demand” synthesis in post-synaptic neurons, acting pre-synaptic terminals and negatively regulating the release of neurotransmitters, particularly GABA and glutamate.
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Familial Abnormalities of Endocannabinoid Signaling in Schizophrenia
Dagmar Koethe, Franziska Pahlisch, Martin Hellmich, Cathrin Rohleder, Juliane K. Mueller, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, E. Fuller Torrey, Daniele Piomelli and F. Markus Leweke (March 2018)
We suggest that the protective upregulation of endocannabinoid signalling reflects either a hereditary trait or mirrors a modulating response to genetically influenced cerebral function involving, e.g., other neurotransmitters or energy metabolism.
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The Role of Endocannabinoid Signaling in Cortical Inhibitory Neuron Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
David W. Volk and David A. Lewis (April 2016)
Cannabis use has been reported to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and to worsen symptoms of the illness. Both of these outcomes might be attributable to the disruption by cannabis of the endogenous cannabinoid system’s spatiotemporal regulation of the inhibitory circuitry in the prefrontal cortex that is essential for core cognitive processes, such as working memory, which are impaired in schizophrenia.
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The Endocannabinoid System and Schizophrenia: Links to the Underlying Pathophysiology and to Novel Treatment Approaches
Swapnil Gupta, MBBS, MD; John D. Cahill, MBBS; Mohini Ranganathan, MD; and Christoph U. Correll, MD (January 2014)
Six decades after the introduction of dopamine D2-receptor–based antipsychotics, schizophrenia remains one of the most severe and difficult-to-treat mental disorders. While a range of alternative therapeutic targets, such as the glutamatergic system, have attracted attention for negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction, novel treatments for the core symptoms of schizophrenia remain unproven. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a largely overlooked brain homeostatic system that is relevant to both the pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia.
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