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Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study
BACKGROUND: Treating very-late-onset (>60 years) schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) is challenging. Age-related factors in elderly individuals (e.g., metabolism, medication side effects, drug-interaction, somatic morbidity) may adversely affect treatment. Novel therapeutic approaches are neede...
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author | Zöllner, Rebecca Hübener, Anne-Friederike Dannlowski, Udo Kircher, Tilo Sommer, Jens Zavorotnyy, Maxim |
author_facet | Zöllner, Rebecca Hübener, Anne-Friederike Dannlowski, Udo Kircher, Tilo Sommer, Jens Zavorotnyy, Maxim |
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description | BACKGROUND: Treating very-late-onset (>60 years) schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) is challenging. Age-related factors in elderly individuals (e.g., metabolism, medication side effects, drug-interaction, somatic morbidity) may adversely affect treatment. Novel therapeutic approaches are needed to ensure the favorable therapeutic outcome in geriatric patients. Previously, theta-burst stimulation (TBS), a novel form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, was reported being beneficial in the treatment for auditory-verbal hallucination (AVH) in young and middle-aged schizophrenia (SZ) patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of a male patient aged 73. His first psychotic episode manifested with paranoid delusions, auditory-verbal and tactile hallucinations at the age of 66, and first remitted following a second-generation antipsychotics (SGA). Years later, after a relapse the AVH did not respond to previously effective olanzapine, whereas its augmentation with an inhibitory TBS over the left temporal lobe led to a stable remission. During his second relapse, TBS was again capable of facilitating therapeutic action of SGA in the same patient. Extending to our clinical observation, a series of functional MRI scans employing a tonal activation paradigm depicted altered auditory processing during AVH as well as brain activation change during remission. CONCLUSIONS: The current case might indicate to favorable effects of combining conventional medicament therapy and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques for elderly patients. Also, we speculate that despite obviously distinct etiologies, the present functional imaging and clinical observation may also demonstrate a possible common pathophysiological pathway underlying AVH in VLOSLP and SZ. |
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spelling | pubmed-72124662020-05-18 Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study Zöllner, Rebecca Hübener, Anne-Friederike Dannlowski, Udo Kircher, Tilo Sommer, Jens Zavorotnyy, Maxim Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: Treating very-late-onset (>60 years) schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) is challenging. Age-related factors in elderly individuals (e.g., metabolism, medication side effects, drug-interaction, somatic morbidity) may adversely affect treatment. Novel therapeutic approaches are needed to ensure the favorable therapeutic outcome in geriatric patients. Previously, theta-burst stimulation (TBS), a novel form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, was reported being beneficial in the treatment for auditory-verbal hallucination (AVH) in young and middle-aged schizophrenia (SZ) patients. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of a male patient aged 73. His first psychotic episode manifested with paranoid delusions, auditory-verbal and tactile hallucinations at the age of 66, and first remitted following a second-generation antipsychotics (SGA). Years later, after a relapse the AVH did not respond to previously effective olanzapine, whereas its augmentation with an inhibitory TBS over the left temporal lobe led to a stable remission. During his second relapse, TBS was again capable of facilitating therapeutic action of SGA in the same patient. Extending to our clinical observation, a series of functional MRI scans employing a tonal activation paradigm depicted altered auditory processing during AVH as well as brain activation change during remission. CONCLUSIONS: The current case might indicate to favorable effects of combining conventional medicament therapy and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques for elderly patients. Also, we speculate that despite obviously distinct etiologies, the present functional imaging and clinical observation may also demonstrate a possible common pathophysiological pathway underlying AVH in VLOSLP and SZ. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7212466/ /pubmed/32425822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00294 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zöllner, Hübener, Dannlowski, Kircher, Sommer and Zavorotnyy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Zöllner, Rebecca Hübener, Anne-Friederike Dannlowski, Udo Kircher, Tilo Sommer, Jens Zavorotnyy, Maxim Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title | Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title_full | Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title_fullStr | Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title_short | Theta-Burst Stimulation for Auditory-Verbal Hallucination in Very-Late-Onset Schizophrenia-Like Psychosis—A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Case Study |
title_sort | theta-burst stimulation for auditory-verbal hallucination in very-late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis—a functional magnetic resonance imaging case study |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7212466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32425822 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00294 |
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