Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 9:35 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 9:35 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01354132
Brief Summary:
The investigators seek to examine the effect of add-on N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) in the early phase of schizophrenia spectrum illness in collaboration with researchers Kim Do, PhD, and Philippe Conus, MD in Switzerland. Modifications of brain structure are thought to occur during the pre-illness phase and around the transition to psychosis. Therefore, studying new treatments that could target changes occurring during this period is of critical importance.
Aims:
Does add-on NAC treatment in early psychosis influence:
* positive and negative symptoms
* extrapyramidal side-effects of other medication
* plasma concentration of glutathione
* Mismatch Negativity, a physiological marker
Detailed Description:
The study proposes that a glutathione deficit leading to an abnormal response to oxidative stress is a vulnerability factor, combined with other brain specific factors, in brain functioning of some individuals with schizophrenia (Do et al., 2010). N-acetyl-cysteine is hypothesized to cross the blood-brain barrier and increase glutathione in the brain.
Study:
NCT01354132
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01354132