Mondelli V
Department of Psychological Medicine,King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry,London,UK.
Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2014 Sep;23(3):215-8. doi: 10.1017/S204579601400033X. Epub 2014 Jun 6.
The role of stress in precipitating the onset and relapse of psychosis has been now widely recognised. Over the past decade, the major challenge of research in this field has been to elucidate the biological mechanisms involved in the interaction between stress and psychosis onset. Obvious focus of this research has been the study of biological systems involved in the stress response. I will here briefly discuss the current evidence of abnormalities in stress biomarkers, such as cortisol and inflammatory markers, in patients with psychosis and their possible clinical implications. Stress biomarkers appear to hold strong potential as predictors of psychosis as well as of clinical outcome, and may represent optimal targets for the development of novel therapeutic agents for psychosis.
压力在促使精神病发作和复发方面所起的作用如今已得到广泛认可。在过去十年中,该领域研究的主要挑战一直是阐明压力与精神病发作之间相互作用所涉及的生物学机制。这项研究的明显重点一直是对应激反应所涉及的生物系统进行研究。在此,我将简要讨论精神病患者压力生物标志物(如皮质醇和炎症标志物)异常的当前证据及其可能的临床意义。压力生物标志物似乎具有很强的潜力,可作为精神病以及临床结果的预测指标,并且可能代表开发新型精神病治疗药物的最佳靶点。