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Role of Antipsychotics
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Treatment
Ilang M. Guiroy, M.D.
Tyler Wright, M.D., M.P.H.
Brian W. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Henry A. Nasrallah, M.D.
As with many other discoveries in the history of psychopharmacology, the
use of antipsychotic medications in mood disorders began with serendipity. The first antipsychotic agent, chlorpromazine, was initially introduced as an anesthetic (Nas­rallah and Tandon 2017), but it soon became apparent that it controlled not only the delusions and hallucinations of schizophrenia but also those of mania. Other first­generation antipsychotics (FGAs), such as haloperidol, were later approved for use in mania (which is a psychotic disorder), and many of the second-generation antipsy­chotics (SGAs; i.e., atypical antipsychotics) were also approved by the FDA for the treatment of mania on the basis of efficacy findings in controlled clinical trials.
The use of antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of depression began with the use of FGAs for depression with delusions or psychosis. The first tricyclic antidepressant (TCA), imipramine, was another serendipitous discovery, found when the three-ring phenothiazine structure of chlorpromazine was being modified to create a new anti­psychotic that turned out to help depression but not schizophrenia. Subsequently, an­other drug developed as an antidepressant, amoxapine, turned out to have antipsy­chotic properties. A popular combination for psychotic depression in the 1970s was a single pill containing a combination of the TCA amitriptyline (trade name Elavil) and the FGA perphenazine (Trilafon). This combination drug was called Triavil.
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When the selective serotonin receptor inhibitors (SSRIs) were introduced in the late 1980s (fluoxetine) and 1990s (sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram), it soon became ap parent that they increase prolactin levels, which implies that they reduce dopamine activity by increasing serotonin activity and can technically be considered to have a mild antipsychotic effect. Finally, several SGAs demonstrated antidepressant effects (apart from their antimanic effects), either as monotherapy for bipolar depression or as adjunctive therapy with antidepressants for patients with depression that had not fully responded to antidepressants (this topic is discussed later in chapter).
Finally, there are the interesting cases of ketamine and pimavanserin, both of which have been shown to have antidepressants effects. Ketamine is a psychogenic halluci nogen found to have rapid antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant and refractory depression. Pimavanserin, an inverse agonist of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine [5 HT]) type 2A (5-HT soever), was approved in 2016 by the FDA for treatment of delusions and hallucina­tions associated with Parkinson’s disease. In a recent trial (Papakostas et al. 2020), pimavanserin demonstrated significant antidepressant effects when added to a par tially effective antidepressant. Ketamine highlights the role of hyperactive N-methyl-
D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptors as a possible etiology of depression,
whereas pimavanserin points to inverse agonism of 5-HT mechanism for treating depression. Both are new insights into therapeutic strategies for depression and may shed additional light on the neurobiology of depression.
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Mood disorders are highly prevalent and are a critical subgroup of psychiatric disor­ders. They include major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar mania, and bipolar de­pression (Vieta and Sanchez-Moreno 2008). Lithium has long been a first-line therapy for the treatment of bipolar disorder (since the early 1970s), together with anticonvul sants such as carbamazepine (since the early 1980s) and valproate (since the early 1990s). The advent of antipsychotic agents in the early 1950s led to their use in all psy chotic disorders, a group that included not only schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder but also bipolar mania and psychotic depression. Beginning with chlor promazine, a strong dopamine type 2 (D being widely used to treat MDD with or without psychotic features, The SGAs were modeled after clozapine to have stronger 5-HT receptor antagonism; they were introduced in the mid-1990s and became widely used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and MDD both as monotherapy and in combina­tion with mood stabilizers or antidepressants.
Haloperidol, a butyrophenone derivative representing the first nonphenothiazine antipsychotic, was an FGA that became widely used in mood disorders. Its use in bi polar disorder was studied as early as the 1970s, but it was not until decades later that placebo-controlled trials took place (Vieta and Sanchez-Moreno 2008). Haloperidol was shown to be significantly more efficacious than placebo (both as monotherapy and in combination with lithium or valproate) for the treatment of mania (Cipriani et
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al. 2006). After the introduction of the SGAs, haloperidol was found to be as efficacious as the SGA olanzapine for bipolar mania. Haloperidol was associated with less weight gain but higher rates of extrapyramidal side effects (EPS). The olanzapine group had significant improvement in quality of life in several measures when compared with the haloperidol group (Tohen et al. 2003a).
The TCA amoxapine became a popular antidepressant in the United States in the 1980s because its response time was generally faster than that of other medications in its class (Ban 1979). However, in both human and animal studies, this TCA was found to have antipsychotic properties but also was associated with EPS and increased pro­lactin levels. It is believed that these effects are due to amoxapine’s strong antidopa­minergic effects (Lydiard and Gelenberg 1981).
Reduction of dopamine tone may be a mechanism shared by SSRIs and antipsy­chotics. One hypothesis about the etiology of SSRI-associated sexual side effects sug­gests that they are the result of hyperprolactinemia. Increased serotonin inhibits dopamine activity, which leads to the release of prolactin (Lyons et al. 2016), and in creased serotonin in the brain can act upon neural dopamine receptors (Zhou et al.
2005). SSRI-associated sexual side effects can include decreased libido, arousal issues, and delayed or absent orgasm or ejaculation (Rosen et al. 1999); problems such as menstrual disturbances, impotence, and decreased fertility have also been reported and can motivate a patient to discontinue SSRI therapy (Lyons et al. 2016). Antipsy chotics are also well known to cause sexual side effects secondary to blockade of D receptors (Park et al. 2012).
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The combination of perphenazine, an FGA, with amitriptyline, a TCA (i.e., Etrafon or Triavil), was targeted toward patients with schizophrenia who also presented with depression as well as toward patients who presented with depression in addition to agitation or anxiety. It was believed that these two drugs had additive effects when used together and that this combination represented a “broad-spectrum psychother apeutic agent” that would be effective for these diagnoses. In the 1960s, a series of small studies by Dorfman (1963), Kennedy and Miller (1963), and Smith (1963) had found this drug combination to be effective. One study (Smith e Incas 1965) found that recurrent depressions responded most rapidly. “Excellent” response was found in 23 of 36 patients (64%), whose diagnoses included severe disorders such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and violent tantrums.
In a study that compared amitriptyline-perphenazine combination therapy with monotherapy of either drug in the treatment of patients with psychotic depression, 78% (14 of 18) of the patients assigned to the combination therapy were responders, in comparison with only 41% (7 of 17) of those assigned to amitriptyline alone and only 19% (3 of 16) of those assigned to perphenazine alone (Spiker et al. 1985).
However, as with other medications, this combination therapy should be used with caution in patients with bipolar depression because it can precipitate a switch into a manic or hypomanic state. A thorough patient history, including family and psychiatric history, should be taken, and caregivers for patients who are beginning
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this therapy should monitor them closely for behavioral changes or the onset of sui­cidality (Angst and Marneros 2001).
When Unipolar and Bipolar Disorder Were Treated With the Same Drugs
As far back as Ancient Greece, mania and depression have been seen as separate but related conditions (Angst and Marneros 2001). Kraepelin was the first psychiatrist to describe two different types of psychosis, which he labeled dementia praecox and manic- depressive illness (Trede et al. 2005). This classification was reflected in DSM-II (Amer­ican Psychiatric Association 1968), which used classifications such as recurrent mania, recurrent depression, and recurrent mania and depression. However, beginning with DSM III (American Psychiatric Association 1980), bipolar disorder (the new name for manic-depressive illness) and MDD were listed as two separate conditions, with bipo lar disorder distinguished from MDD by the presence of mania. In their review of the differences between bipolar and unipolar depression, Cuellar et al. (2005) noted that the separation of the two disorders in DSM-III was guided by “increasing evidence support[ing] the biological etiology and more severe lifetime course” of bipolar dis­order compared with MDD).
Distinguishing between MDD and bipolar disorder for diagnostic purposes can be
difficult because depressive episodes can be a part of both disorders (Cuellar et al.
2005). The distinction made between bipolar and unipolar depression has been a guiding principle of research for many decades (Cuellar et al. 2005), and this distinc­tion is important because optimal treatment depends on the accuracy of the diagno­sis. Specifically, the use of antidepressant monotherapy for patients presenting with bipolar depression can lead to negative outcomes, including increased mood instabil ity and easier triggering of a mood episode.
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Bipolar Depression
Olanzapine-Fluoxetine Combination
In the past, combination therapies (e.g., amitriptyline and perphenazine) were widely prescribed in psychiatry. However, serious side effects, including suicidality and tar­dive dyskinesia, led to their use falling out of favor in the 1980s. More recently, the FDA approved a combination of fluoxetine and olanzapine (trade name Symbyax) for the treatment of bipolar I depression (Shelton 2006). The combination of these two medications is believed to result in higher serotonin levels, which may help depres­sive symptoms (Shelton 2003). In patients with nonpsychotic, nonbipolar depression who had not responded to SSRI monotherapy, the olanzapine-fluoxetine combination (OFC) produced improvement in symptoms within 1 week of beginning treatment. This improvement persisted throughout the length of the trial (Shelton et al. 2001).
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However, OFC has several side effects of concern (Shelton 2006). Olanzapine and other SGAs have been linked to metabolic dysregulation, including weight gain, hy perlipidemia, hyperglycemia, and diabetes mellitus (Newcomer 2005). To prevent these adverse cardiometabolic effects, a standard weight management program in
volving diet and exercise should be implemented at the start of therapy, with or with­out the use of appetite suppressants such as topiramate. Biometric data, such as weight and waist circumference, should also be carefully monitored (Shelton 2006).
Quetiapine
Quetiapine (trade name Seroquel) was developed in an attempt to create a drug sim­ilar to clozapine without the risk of agranulocytosis. It is a multireceptor antagonist that has low affinity for the D sistent with other SGAs; it is also a strong antagonist at histamine (H property that explains its sedative effects. The effective dosage range used in placebo­controlled clinical trials was 150–750 mg/day. The maximum plasma concentration was observed after 1–2 hours, and the half-life was 7 hours. Quetiapine was found to be effective for monotherapy in the acute and maintenance treatment of bipolar dis order and to be significantly better than placebo (Nemeroff et al. 2002). Lithium and quetiapine produced similar rates of symptom improvement; however, quetiapine also caused significant weight gain, somnolence, and dry mouth. No significant EPS were noted in a 12-week study (Bowden et al. 2005). In the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder, quetiapine taken as an adjunct to lithium or valproate is particularly effective in reducing both manic and depressive episodes (Lindström et al. 2017).
Quetiapine was the first SGA to be approved as monotherapy for bipolar depres­sion, by virtue of the norepinephrine reuptake inhibition side effects of its active me­tabolite, norquetiapine. It was found to be equivalent to lithium in efficacy (Weisler et al. 2011). Later clinical trials showed that quetiapine’s efficacy for unipolar depres sion was similar to that of paroxetine, but because of its metabolic side effects, quetia­pine was not approved for monotherapy of depression. However, FDA approved it for use as adjunctive therapy with an antidepressant for treatment-resistant depression (defined as inadequate response to one to three antidepressants).
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Lurasidone (trade name Latuda) received FDA approval for the treatment of acute depression associated with bipolar I disorder in adults (Bawa and Scarff 2015), either as monotherapy or as adjunctive treatment to either lithium or valproate (Loebel et al.
2014). The Program to Evaluate the Antidepressant Impact of Lurasidone (PREVAIL) was planned in 2009 by Sunovion (the manufacturer of lurasidone) to determine the effectiveness of the drug in the treatment of depression associated with bipolar I dis­order. In this 6-week double-blind monotherapy study, patients were separated into three groups: lurasidone 20–60 mg/day, lurasidone 80–120 mg/day, or placebo. The primary efficacy parameter was a change from baseline in total Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) score at week 6.
Based on this parameter, patients in the lurasidone-treated groups showed signifi­cantly greater improvement when compared with the placebo group (i.e., –15.4 for both lurasidone groups and –10.7 for placebo). Additionally, the response rates were
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higher in both lurasidone-treated groups versus the placebo group, with a number needed to treat (NNT) of 5 for both lurasidone groups. Remission rates were signifi cantly higher for both lurasidone groups as well, with NNTs of 6 and 7 for the lower and higher dosages of lurasidone, respectively (McIntyre et al. 2013). The manufac turer determined that lurasidone significantly improved depressive symptoms in pa­tients with bipolar depression at dosage ranges of 20–120 mg/day (Loebel et al. 2014). In addition, patients who received lurasidone showed significant improvements in scores on the Sheehan Disability Scale and a quality-of-life scale compared with pa tients who received placebo.
Treatment-Resistant Depression
Aripiprazole as Adjunctive Therapy
Aripiprazole (trade name Abilify; Otsuka American Pharmaceutical 2020) was the first partial agonist antipsychotic thought to stabilize the dopamine system by reduc ing dopamine activity when it is high and enhancing dopamine activity when it is low. Aripiprazole is an agonist of presynaptic dopamine autoreceptors, a postsynap tic partial agonist at the D ris et al. 2002). Time to peak plasma concentration is 3–5 hours. Aripiprazole has a half­life of 75 hours, and the active metabolite’s half-life is 94 hours (Kinghorn and McEvoy
2005). Among the antipsychotics, aripiprazole does not lengthen the QTc interval, does not cause hyperprolactinemia, is less frequently associated with EPS (although it has been associated with akathisia), and is less frequently associated with severe metabolic syndrome and weight gain.
Like quetiapine, aripiprazole is FDA approved as an adjunctive therapy for treat­ment-resistant MDD. However, in two FDA registration trials examining the efficacy of aripiprazole for bipolar depression, aripiprazole failed to outperform placebo. For bipolar I disorder maintenance therapy, aripiprazole used as an adjunct to lithium or valproic acid increased the time to relapse to depressive or manic episodes (Marcus et al. 2011). A small study showed that over 100 weeks, aripiprazole monotherapy was better than placebo in delaying time to manic relapse but not in delaying time to depressive relapse (Keck et al. 2007). Aripiprazole is particularly effective as an ad junct to SSRI therapy in treatment-resistant depression (Papakostas et al. 2005). In a randomized, placebo-controlled study of older adults (age >60 years) with treatment­resistant depression, 44% of patients who received aripiprazole augmentation of their antidepressant treatment (i.e., venlafaxine extended release) achieved and sustained remission (vs. 29% of those who received placebo) (Lenze et al. 2015). A secondary analysis of MADRS scores on specific items found that the presence of sleep distur­bance and the absence of anhedonia were predictive of symptom remission in re­sponse to aripiprazole augmentation (Gebara et al. 2018).
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Brexpiprazole (trade name Rexulti) displays partial agonism at the 5-HT1A and D receptors and antagonism at the 5-HT2A receptor and the norepinephrine α1B and α receptors, and it shows moderate affinity for H1 receptors. In 2015, brexpiprazole re­ceived FDA approval for adjunctive use in treatment-resistant MDD. In a double­blind randomized controlled trial, Thase et al. (2015) found that symptom reductions
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with brexpiprazole were clinically and statistically significantly greater than those with placebo.
Cariprazine as Monotherapy and Adjunctive Therapy
Durgam et al. (2016a) conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to examine the effectiveness of cariprazine as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment in patients with treatment-resistant depression. In the study, patients con tinued their antidepressant treatment and were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to receive adjunctive cariprazine 1–2 mg/day, cariprazine 2.0–4.5 mg/day, or placebo and were monitored for 8 weeks. The primary and secondary efficacy parameters were change from baseline to week 8 in MADRS and Sheehan Disability Scale scores, respectively. On the basis of the MADRS total score, cariprazine at 2.0–4.5 mg/day was found to be superior to placebo.
Durgam et al. (2016b) also conducted an 8-week randomized, double-blind, pla­cebo-controlled study in patients with bipolar I depression who were currently experi­encing a major depressive episode. Patients were placed into either the placebo group or one of three fixed-dosage cariprazine groups (0.75 mg/day, 1.5 mg/day, or 3 mg/ day). The primary and secondary outcomes in this study were scores from the MADRS and the Clinical Global Impressions–Severity scale, respectively, at 6 weeks. Only the cariprazine 1.5 mg/day group showed statistically significant improvement on every efficacy measure. The cariprazine 3 mg/day group showed some efficacy, but it was not statistically significant compared with the placebo group.
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Ziprasidone
Ziprasidone (trade name Geodon) was the fifth SGA to be developed. It is an antag­onist at the 5-HT 3–7 hours. The half-life is 4–7 hours if the drug taken with food; ziprasidone is best absorbed when taken with a meal. In comparison with other SGAs, ziprasidone is less likely to cause metabolic syndrome or hyperprolactinemia (Caley and Cooper 2002) but is more likely to cause QTc prolongation (Mandrioli et al. 2015). Although ap proval of ziprasidone was initially delayed due to concerns that QTc prolongation would increase risk for arrhythmias and torsades de pointes, postmarketing studies have not shown an increase in nonsuicidal mortality in real-world use of ziprasidone compared with olanzapine (Camm et al. 2012). Ziprasidone was approved for bipolar mania but was not superior to placebo as a monotherapy treatment for bipolar I de­pression or as an adjunctive therapy for treatment-resistant MDD (Patkar et al. 2015). Ziprasidone’s nonsuperiority to placebo was replicated in multiple studies, including those examining ziprasidone as an adjunct to lithium or divalproex in patients with acute mania (Sachs et al. 2012).
Olanzapine
Olanzapine (trade name Zyprexa) was the first SGA to receive approval as monother­apy for bipolar mania. A randomized controlled trial found olanzapine monotherapy (5–20 mg/day) to have a faster onset of symptom reduction than divalproex (14 days vs. 62 days) for acute mania (Tohen et al. 2003b). However, over 47 weeks, no signifi-
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