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Effects of L-DOPA Monotherapy on Psychomotor Speed and [11C]Raclopride Binding in High-Risk Older Adults With Depression.
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ABSTRACT: Background
A high-risk subgroup of older patients with depression has slowed processing and gait speeds. This study examined whether carbidopa/levodopa (L-DOPA) monotherapy increased dopamine availability, increased processing/gait speed, and relieved depressive symptoms.Methods
Adult outpatients with depression >59 years old underwent baseline [11C]raclopride positron emission tomography followed by open L-DOPA for 3 weeks (1 week each of 150 mg, 300 mg, and 450 mg). Generalized estimating equations tested the pre- and post-L-DOPA differences in processing and gait speed measures, depressive symptoms, and reported side effects. The decrease in binding potential between the pre- and posttreatment scans indexed enhanced synaptic dopamine availability induced by L-DOPA treatment.Results
Thirty-six subjects participated (age, 75.3 ± 7.5 years; 44.4% male). Significant, dose-dependent increases in processing and gait speed were observed with L-DOPA (450-mg dose: processing speed factor score effect size = 0.41, p = .001; dual-task gait speed effect size = 0.43, p = .002). [11C]raclopride decrease in binding potential was significantly different from 0 in sensorimotor (t24 = -4.85, p < .001) and associative striatum (t24 = -2.52, p = .019) but not in limbic striatum (t24 = 0.265, p = .793). Depressive symptoms decreased significantly on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (effect size = -0.37, p = .002). Dropout rate was 8.3%, and nausea was the most frequently reported side effect.Conclusions
By enhancing availability of dopamine, L-DOPA improved processing and gait speed in older adults with depression and significantly decreased [11C]raclopride binding in selected striatal subregions.
SUBMITTER: Rutherford BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641997 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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RETRACTED: Effects of L-DOPA Monotherapy on Psychomotor Speed and [<sup>11</sup>C]Raclopride Binding in High-Risk Older Adults With Depression.
Biological psychiatry 20190415 3
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of Biological Psychiatry Editor John H. Krystal, M.D., with agreement from all authors except Chen Chen and Emily Valente. These two co-authors moved and, with no forwarding information that was available or could be found, they were therefore unable to be contacted. The authors have uncovered ...[more]