Sheshachala Karthik, Narayanaswamy Janardhanan C
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2019 Jan;61(Suppl 1):S58-S65. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_520_18.
Proven treatment strategies for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) include pharmacotherapy with serotonin reuptake inhibitors and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). A significant proportion of patients (25%-30%) fail to respond to these treatment options, necessitating the need for additional treatment options to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life in patients with OCD. Augmentation strategies using various glutamatergic agents have been explored, with diverse outcomes. The aim of this review is to give an overview of the glutamatergic system in the brain with a focus on glutamatergic abnormalities in OCD and to review the existing evidence for various glutamatergic agents used for augmentation.
强迫症(OCD)经证实的治疗策略包括使用5-羟色胺再摄取抑制剂进行药物治疗以及认知行为疗法(CBT)。相当一部分患者(25%-30%)对这些治疗方案没有反应,因此需要额外的治疗方案来改善强迫症患者的治疗效果和生活质量。人们已经探索了使用各种谷氨酸能药物的增效策略,结果各不相同。这篇综述的目的是概述大脑中的谷氨酸能系统,重点关注强迫症中的谷氨酸能异常,并综述用于增效的各种谷氨酸能药物的现有证据。