Network Analysis-Based Disentanglement of the Symptom Heterogeneity in Asian Patients with Schizophrenia: Findings from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antipsychoticsopen access
- Authors
- Choi, Joonho; Yoon, Hyung-Jun; Park, Jae Hong; Nakagami, Yukako; Kubota, Chika; Inada, Toshiya; Kato, Takahiro A.; Yang, Shu-Yu; Lin, Sih-Ku; Chong, Mian-Yoon; Avasthi, Ajit; Grover, Sandeep; Kallivayalil, Roy Abraham; Tanra, Andi Jaylangkara; Chee, Kok Yoon; Xiang, Yu-Tao; Sim, Kang; Javed, Afzal; Tan, Chay Hoon; Sartorius, Norman; Kanba, Shigenobu; Shinfuku, Naotaka; Park, Yong Chon; Park, Seon-Cheol
- Issue Date
- Jan-2022
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale; heterogeneity; motor retardation; network analysis; precision medicine; schizophrenia
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, v.12, no.1, pp.1 - 13
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 13
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/139851
- DOI
- 10.3390/jpm12010033
- Abstract
- The symptom heterogeneity of schizophrenia is consistent with Wittgenstein’s analogy of a language game. From the perspective of precision medicine, this study aimed to estimate the symptom presentation and identify the psychonectome in Asian patients, using data obtained from the Research on Asian Psychotropic Prescription Patterns for Antipsychotics. We constructed a network structure of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) items in 1438 Asian patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, all the BPRS items were considered to be an ordered categorical variable ranging in value from 1–7. Motor retardation was situated most centrally within the BPRS network structure, followed by depressive mood and unusual thought content. Contrastingly, hallucinatory behavior was situated least centrally within the network structure. Using a community detection algorithm, the BPRS items were organized into positive, negative, and general symptom clusters. Overall, DSM symptoms were not more central than non-DSM symptoms within the symptom network of Asian patients with schizophrenia. Thus, motor retardation, which results from the unmet needs associated with current antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia, may be a tailored treatment target for Asian patients with schizophrenia. Based on these findings, targeting non-dopamine systems (glutamate, γ-aminobutyric acid) may represent an effective strategy with respect to precision medicine for psychosis.
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