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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 1, 2002, 22(9):3708-3719
Prefrontal Dopamine D1 Receptors and Working
Memory in Schizophrenia
Anissa
Abi-Dargham1, 2,
Osama
Mawlawi1, 2,
Ilise
Lombardo1,
Roberto
Gil1,
Diana
Martinez1,
Yiyun
Huang1,
Dah-Ren
Hwang1, 2,
John
Keilp1,
Lisa
Kochan1,
Ronald
Van
Heertum2,
Jack M.
Gorman1, 2, and
Marc
Laruelle1, 2
Departments of 1 Psychiatry and
2 Radiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York
10032
Studies in nonhuman primates documented that appropriate
stimulation of dopamine (DA) D1 receptors in the
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is critical for working memory
processing. The defective ability of patients with schizophrenia at
working memory tasks is a core feature of this illness. It has been
postulated that this impairment relates to a deficiency in mesocortical
DA function. In this study, D1 receptor availability was
measured with positron emission tomography and the selective
D1 receptor antagonist [11C]NNC 112 in
16 patients with schizophrenia (seven drug-naive and nine drug-free
patients) and 16 matched healthy controls. [11C]NNC 112 binding potential (BP) was
significantly elevated in the DLPFC of patients with schizophrenia
(1.63 ± 0.39 ml/gm) compared with control subjects (1.27 ± 0.44 ml/gm; p = 0.02). In patients with
schizophrenia, increased DLPFC [11C]NNC 112 BP was
a strong predictor of poor performance at the n-back task, a test of
working memory. These findings confirm that alteration of DLPFC
D1 receptor transmission is involved in working memory
deficits presented by patients with schizophrenia. Increased
D1 receptor availability observed in patients with
schizophrenia might represent a compensatory (but ineffective)
upregulation secondary to sustained deficiency in mesocortical DA function.
Key words:
dopamine; D1 receptors; schizophrenia; prefrontal cortex; working memory; positron emission tomography
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/2293708-12$05.00/0
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