著者

大月 三郎 秋山 一文 森本 清

出版者

Okayama Medical Association

雑誌

岡山医学会雑誌 (ISSN:00301558)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.103, no.3, pp.187-196, 1991-06-18 (Released:2009-08-24)

参考文献数

46

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Abuse of psychostimulants such as methamphetamine by humans leads to psychotic symptoms which are virtually indistinguishable from those of paranoid schizophrenia. A similar progressive augmentation was observed in locomotion and stereotyped behavior of animals receiving chronic administration of methamphetamine. Thus, such behavioral sensitization or reverse tolerance phenomenon has been well established as an animal model of susceptibility to exacerbation of methamphetamine-induced paranoid psychosis and schizophrenia. On the other hand, kindling refers to a phenomenon whereby a progressively increasing epileptiform discharge emerges after repeated electrical stimulation in a limbic area and finally culminates in a generalized seizure. Kindling has been best characterized as a model of human temporal lobe epilepsy. This review summarizes the studies on reverse tolerance and kindling phenomenon so far conducted in our department. Acute exacerbation following a re-challenge of methamphetamine in the methamphetamine-treated animals is associated with enhancement of dopamine release in the striatum. The pharmacological and electrophysioloical studies of kindling revealed cumulative evidence that excitatory amino acids play an important role in the induction mechanism of kindling, but that the seizure triggering mechanism may be related to collapse of inhibitory gamma-aminobutyric acid function. Further studies are necessary to understand these two important phenomena for psychiatry.

著者

鈴木 啓嗣 山田 了士 塚本 千秋 池田 知彦 青木 省三 大月 三郎

出版者

一般社団法人日本心身医学会

雑誌

心身医学 (ISSN:03850307)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.6, 1989-10-01