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American Journal of Psychiatry | 2013

Efficacy of Functional Remediation in Bipolar Disorder: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Study

Carla Torrent; C.M. Bonnin; Anabel Martínez-Arán; Jesús Valle; Benedikt Amann; Ana González-Pinto; Jose Manuel Crespo; Angela Ibáñez; Mari Paz Garcia-Portilla; Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos; Celso Arango; Francesc Colom; Brisa Solé; Isabella Pacchiarotti; Adriane Ribeiro Rosa; José Luis Ayuso-Mateos; Celia Anaya; Patricia Fernández; Ramon Landin-Romero; Silvia Alonso-Lana; Jordi Ortiz-Gil; Bàrbara Segura; Sara Barbeito; Patricia Vega; Miryam Fernández; Amaia Ugarte; Marta Subirà; Ester Cerrillo; Nuria Custal; José M. Menchón

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to assess the efficacy of functional remediation, a novel intervention program, on functional improvement in a sample of euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. METHOD In a multicenter, randomized, rater-blind clinical trial involving 239 outpatients with DSM-IV bipolar disorder, functional remediation (N=77) was compared with psychoeducation (N=82) and treatment as usual (N=80) over 21 weeks. Pharmacological treatment was kept stable in all three groups. The primary outcome measure was improvement in global psychosocial functioning, measured blindly as the mean change in score on the Functioning Assessment Short Test from baseline to endpoint. RESULTS At the end of the study, 183 patients completed the treatment phase. Repeated-measures analysis revealed significant functional improvement from baseline to endpoint over the 21 weeks of treatment (last observation carried forward), suggesting an interaction between treatment assignment and time. Tukeys post hoc tests revealed that functional remediation differed significantly from treatment as usual, but not from psychoeducation. CONCLUSIONS Functional remediation, a novel group intervention, showed efficacy in improving the functional outcome of a sample of euthymic bipolar patients as compared with treatment as usual.


Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2013

Cooperative supramolecular polymerization driven by metallophilic Pd···Pd interactions.

María Mayoral; Christina Rest; Vladimir Stepanenko; Jennifer Schellheimer; Rodrigo Q. Albuquerque; Gustavo Fernández

A new oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE)-based Pd(II) pyridyl complex has been synthesized, and its self-assembly has been investigated in solution, in the bulk state, and on surfaces. Detailed analysis of concentration- and temperature-dependent UV-vis studies in methylcyclohexane supported by DFT calculations demonstrate for the first time that cooperative supramolecular polymerization processes can be driven by metallophilic interactions.


Angewandte Chemie | 2014

Self-Assembly and (Hydro)gelation Triggered by Cooperative π–π and Unconventional CH⋅⋅⋅X Hydrogen Bonding Interactions†

Christina Rest; María Mayoral; Katharina Fucke; Jennifer Schellheimer; Vladimir Stepanenko; Gustavo Fernández

Weak C-H···X hydrogen bonds are important stabilizing forces in crystal engineering and anion recognition in solution. In contrast, their quantitative influence on the stabilization of supramolecular polymers or gels has thus far remained unexplored. Herein, we report an oligophenyleneethynylene (OPE)-based amphiphilic Pt(II) complex that forms supramolecular polymeric structures in aqueous and polar media driven by π-π and different weak C-H···X (X=Cl, O) interactions involving chlorine atoms attached to the Pt(II) centers as well as oxygen atoms and polarized methylene groups belonging to the peripheral glycol chains. A collection of experimental techniques (UV/Vis, 1D and 2D NMR, DLS, AFM, SEM, and X-Ray diffraction) demonstrate that the interplay between different weak noncovalent interactions leads to the cooperative formation of self-assembled structures of high aspect ratio and gels in which the molecular arrangement is maintained in the crystalline state.


British Journal of Psychiatry | 2009

Brain morphology and neurological soft signs in adolescents with first-episode psychosis.

Joost Janssen; Angeles Diaz-Caneja; Santiago Reig; Igor Bombin; María Mayoral; Mara Parellada; Montserrat Graell; Dolores Moreno; Arantzazu Zabala; Veronica García Vazquez; Manuel Desco; Celso Arango

BACKGROUND Adolescents with first-episode psychosis have increased severity of neurological soft signs when compared with controls, but it is unclear whether increased severity of neurological soft signs is an expression of specific structural brain deficits. AIMS To examine whether increased severity of neurological soft signs was associated with decreased brain volumes in adolescents with first-episode psychosis. METHOD Brain scans were obtained for 70 adolescents (less than 18 years of age) with first-episode psychosis (duration of positive symptoms less than 6 months). Volumes were assessed using voxel-based morphometry and through segmentation of anatomical structures. RESULTS Increased severity of sensory integration neurological soft signs correlated with smaller right and left thalamus volume, whereas increased severity of sequencing of complex motor acts neurological soft signs correlated with smaller right caudate volume. CONCLUSIONS Neurological soft signs may be an easy-to-assess marker of region-specific structural brain deficits in adolescents with first-episode psychosis.


American Journal of Medical Genetics | 2008

DRD3, but not COMT or DRD2, genotype affects executive functions in healthy and first-episode psychosis adolescents†

Igor Bombin; Celso Arango; María Mayoral; Josefina Castro-Fornieles; Ana González-Pinto; Cristina González-Gómez; Dolores Moreno; Mara Parellada; Inmaculada Baeza; Montserrat Graell; Soraya Otero; Pilar A. Saiz; Ana Patiño-García

Catechol‐O‐methyltransferase (COMT) and dopamine receptors 2 (DRD2) and 3 (DRD3) have been associated with a higher risk of developing psychosis and with dopaminergic system (DAS) regulation. Frontal cognitive functioning has been proven to be a useful endophenotype for psychosis and it is partially controlled by the DAS. Val158Met (rs4680, COMT), Taq IA (rs1800497, DRD2) and Ser9Gly (rs6280; DRD3) polymorphisms were analyzed in a sample of 84 adolescent Caucasian patients with first‐episode psychosis (ages 11–17) and 85 healthy Caucasian controls (ages 10–17). A comprehensive neuropsychological battery, assessing attention, working memory, memory, and executive functions, was administered to the entire sample. The relationship between neuropsychological scores and genotype was determined. Subjects with the DRD3 Gly/Gly genotype showed significantly poorer performance than Ser/Ser subjects in executive functioning tasks (P = 0.002; adjusted R2 = 0.031), with no significant differences in the other cognitive paradigms. Neither COMT nor DRD2 polymorphisms significantly contributed to variance in cognition in our adolescent sample. The DRD3 Ser9Gly polymorphism seems to be involved with prefrontal cognition. This effect seems to be heterogeneous in terms of cognitive paradigms. The lack of association between COMT and DRD2 genotypes and cognition in our sample may be partially explained by the young age of the sample and the clinical heterogeneity of the patients.


Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 2012

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Does Neuroimaging Support the DSM-5 Proposal for a Symptom Dyad? A Systematic Review of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Studies

Laura Pina-Camacho; Sonia Villero; David Fraguas; Leticia Boada; Joost Janssen; Francisco J. Navas-Sánchez; María Mayoral; Cloe Llorente; Celso Arango; Mara Parellada

A systematic review of 208 studies comprising functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging data in patients with ‘autism spectrum disorder’ (ASD) was conducted, in order to determine whether these data support the forthcoming DSM-5 proposal of a social communication and behavioral symptom dyad. Studies consistently reported abnormal function and structure of fronto-temporal and limbic networks with social and pragmatic language deficits, of temporo-parieto-occipital networks with syntactic–semantic language deficits, and of fronto-striato-cerebellar networks with repetitive behaviors and restricted interests in ASD patients. Therefore, this review partially supports the DSM-5 proposal for the ASD dyad.


European Psychiatry | 2008

Neuropsychological functioning in adolescents with first episode psychosis: a two-year follow-up study.

María Mayoral; Arantzazu Zabala; Olalla Robles; Igor Bombin; Patricia Andrés; Mara Parellada; Dolores Moreno; M. Graell; Óscar Medina; Celso Arango

Cognitive deficits are a core feature of psychotic disorders. Both in adult and adolescent populations, studies have shown that patients with psychosis have poorer cognitive functioning than controls. The cognitive domains that seem to be affected are mainly attention, working memory, learning and memory, and executive function. However, with regard to the trajectory of cognitive function throughout the illness, there is still a dearth of prospective data in patients who develop psychosis during adolescence. In this article, neuropsychological functioning was assessed in a sample of 24 first episodes of early onset psychosis (EOP) and 29 healthy adolescents at baseline and after a two-year follow-up. Patients with EOP showed lower scores than controls in overall cognitive functioning and in all specific domains assessed (attention, working memory, executive function, and learning and memory) both at baseline and the two-year follow-up. When changes in cognitive functioning over two years were assessed, patients and controls showed significant improvement in almost all cognitive domains. However, this improvement disappeared in the patient group after controlling for improvement in symptomatology. Our findings support a neurodevelopmental pathological process in this sample of adolescents with psychosis.


Angewandte Chemie | 2015

High‐Fidelity Noncovalent Synthesis of Hydrogen‐Bonded Macrocyclic Assemblies

Carlos Montoro‐García; Jorge Camacho‐García; Ana M. López‐Pérez; Nerea Bilbao; Sonia Romero‐Pérez; María Mayoral; David González-Rodríguez

A hydrogen-bonded cyclic tetramer is assembled with remarkably high effective molarities from a properly designed dinucleoside monomer. This self-assembled species exhibits an impressive thermodynamic and kinetic stability and is formed with high fidelities within a broad concentration range.


Psychological Medicine | 2013

Neuropsychological evidence for abnormal neurodevelopment associated with early-onset psychoses

Igor Bombin; María Mayoral; Josefina Castro-Fornieles; A. González-Pinto; E. De la Serna; Marta Rapado-Castro; Sara Barbeito; Mara Parellada; I. Baeza; Montserrat Graell; Beatriz Payá; Celso Arango

BACKGROUND The longitudinal neuropsychological study of first-episode early-onset psychosis (EOP) patients, whose brain maturation is still in progress at the time of illness onset, provides a unique opportunity to compare their cognitive development with that of healthy subjects, in search of specific patterns resulting from the interaction between neurodevelopmental processes and the presence of psychotic disorders. Method Seventy-five first-episode EOP patients (schizophrenia n = 35; bipolar disorder n = 17; other forms of psychosis n = 23) with a mean age of 15.53 years were assessed with a neuropsychological battery that included measures of attention, working memory, memory and executive functions within 6 months following the onset of the first psychotic symptom (baseline) and 2 years later. Psychotic symptoms were assessed at both times with the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS). Seventy-nine healthy subjects matched for age and education served as controls. RESULTS EOP patients showed significant cognitive impairment at both baseline and the 2-year follow-up, with no significant differences between diagnostic groups at either time. Both healthy controls and EOP patients improved in all cognitive measures, except for patient working memory. Improvement in patient attention lost significance after controlling for psychotic symptom reduction. No significant time/diagnosis interaction was found among patients (p > 0.405). CONCLUSIONS Cognitive impairment in EOP is already present at the first episode, and cognitive development seems to be arrested early in EOP patients compared to their healthy peers, at least for some cognitive functions. These and previous similar results support the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of psychosis.


European Neuropsychopharmacology | 2015

Functional remediation for patients with bipolar II disorder: Improvement of functioning and subsyndromal symptoms

Brisa Solé; C. Mar Bonnín; María Mayoral; Benedikt Amann; Imma Torres; Ana González-Pinto; Esther Jiménez; Jose Manuel Crespo; Francesc Colom; Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos; M. Reinares; José Luis Ayuso-Mateos; Sara Soria; M. Paz García-Portilla; Angela Ibáñez; Eduard Vieta; Anabel Martínez-Arán; Carla Torrent

Recently, Functional Remediation (FR) has proven to be effective in improving the functional outcome of euthymic bipolar patients. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of the FR program in a subsample of euthymic bipolar II patients (BPII). A post-hoc analyses were undertaken using data of 53 BPII outpatients who had participated in a multicenter, rater-blind, randomized, controlled trial exploring the efficacy of FR (n=17) as compared with a Psychoeducation group (PSY) (n=19) and a treatment as usual control group (TAU n=17). The primary outcome variable was the functional improvement defined as the mean change in the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST) from baseline to endpoint after the intervention. Regarding the treatment effect, data reveal a significant functional improvement from baseline to endpoint, suggestive for an interaction between program pertinence and time (pre-post). Nevertheless, Tukey׳s post-hoc test only revealed a trend in favor of a better outcome for FR when compared to the other two groups. We also found an interaction between program pertinence and time when analysing the subdepressive symptoms, with BPII patients in FR showing a significant reduction when compared to the PSY group. Our results suggest that the FR appears to be effective in improving the overall functional outcome in BPII, as well as in reducing subdepressive symptoms.

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Celso Arango

Complutense University of Madrid

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Mara Parellada

Complutense University of Madrid

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Gustavo Fernández

Complutense University of Madrid

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Mercedes Cano

Complutense University of Madrid

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Carmen Moreno

Complutense University of Madrid

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Ana González-Pinto

University of the Basque Country

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