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The Schizotaxia Intervention Protocol

Even with a working research definition of schizotaxia and preliminary evidence of its validity, the field is not ready for prevention trials. As noted above, we are not yet able to identify with acceptable levels of certainty who will and will not develop schizophrenia. However, our current knowledge about schizotaxia does suggest a method for evaluating treatments that may someday be useful for preventing schizophrenia. The method, called the “schizotaxia intervention protocol,” is straightforward: among schizophrenia patients, select a sample of first-degree relatives with schizotaxia. Then, using standard clinical trial protocols, determine whether a putative preventive intervention modifies symptoms of schizotaxia in an acute trial. The underlying assumption is that any intervention which attenuates a feature of schizotaxia is a reasonable candidate for a prevention trial, when such trials become feasible.

The notion that schizotaxia symptoms or traits observed in first-degree relatives share etiologic and pathophysiological pathways with schizophrenia was central to our hypothesis that low dosages of risperidone would attenuate such symptoms, as described above. In that study, we administered the treatment to adults aged 30 to 49 years. Their risk for developing schizophrenia was thus statistically lower than when they were younger, although it still exceeded that of the general population. The same reasoning that underlies treatment of schizotaxia for its own sake (that is, to reduce symptoms in affected individuals who might not otherwise receive treatment) underlies its utility in prevention strategies. If adult first-degree relatives share etiologic and pathophysiological elements with their ill relatives, it follows that the ill relatives share such elements with subjects who may be regarded as preschizophrenic. If this is true, then any intervention that seeks to mitigate these elements (that is, schizotaxia symptoms or the function of their underlying neurobiological substrates) might also work to reduce the likelihood of psychosis. Further, this assumption is reasonable because first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia show an elevated risk for carrying schizophrenia susceptibility genes (1), and features of schizotaxia observed among adult relatives are similar to those seen in children who eventually develop schizophrenia (2).

The schizotaxia intervention protocol has several major advantages. One is that it is applicable to a wide range of potential interventions. While the use of medications is particularly likely to receive attention, other modalities, such as psychotherapy, psychosocial treatments (for example, [2,75]), or combinations of treatments, may be at least as useful. Another major advantage of the schizotaxia intervention protocol is that it can avoid some of the ethical issues raised by primary prevention studies in schizophrenia. In particular, prevention studies with children and adolescents have the unintended effect of labelling them as future schizophrenia patients. This raises the very real possibility of stigmatization and emotional harm to the subjects and to their families. Moreover, the type of medications likely to be used in prevention trials may pose greater risks to children and adolescents than to adults. The use of antipsychotic medications to treat children, for example, has been limited in part because of concerns about side effects (76). Both considerations (that is, concerns about stigmatization and about medication effects) preclude their use without solid evidence of their efficacy, but even nonpharmacologic interventions can be psychologically harmful if their use is not predicated on a solid rationale. Schizotaxia, by contrast, can be defined in adult relatives of patients with schizophrenia, and putative preventive interventions can be evaluated without the use of children or adolescents.

Eventually, if schizotaxia is validated in adults, if successful remediation of schizotaxic symptoms or traits is demonstrated, and if a homogeneous target population is accurately defined, then interventions at earlier ages may be considered. Presumably, trials with older adolescents would precede trials with younger age groups. The end point would involve trials with preprodromal, prepsychotic samples. At present, the focus is likely to remain on adults. Although our study of risperidone in relatives of patients with schizophrenia is an encouraging initial application of the schizotaxia intervention protocol (in addition to the evidence it provides for the validation of the syndrome) (72), larger studies, double-blind protocols, and additional treatments are needed to clarify the extent to which symptoms of schizotaxia are reversible.


Present and Future Directions

While the concept of a predisposition to schizophrenia has intrigued researchers for close to 100 years, its study is more recent. Four decades of research, however, have established schizotaxia as a clinically meaningful condition (2). One of the most significant aspects of research with relatives of schizophrenia patients involves the nature of schizotaxia symptoms. It is clear from high-risk longitudinal studies, from family studies of cognitive function, and from studies of neuroimaging, neurochemistry, psychophysiology, and social functioning (22,43,48,56,63,77), that the predisposition to develop schizophrenia involves more than the clinical symptoms required for a DSM or ICD diagnosis of the disorder. As we proposed recently, the clinical symptoms required for a diagnosis emphasize the role of psychosis and may reflect a relatively nonspecific end state of the effects of schizotaxia plus psychosis (78). In contrast, many of the features of schizotaxia may be closer to the genetic and other adverse etiologic factors that produce the predisposition to schizophrenia. Consequently, symptoms of schizotaxia may come to represent particularly promising treatment targets for prevention protocols. These points do not detract from the major achievements and utility of the DSM and ICD systems in advancing psychiatric diagnosis, especially in reliability but also in validity. Rather, they suggest possible pathways for continued progress in confirming the reliability and validity of psychiatric classification.

At this point, a reasonable strategy is to proceed on the 2 parallel fronts described above. First, there is a clear need to continue to validate schizotaxia as a syndrome or set of traits. Although we do not suggest that our conception of the predisposition to develop schizophrenia is the only one possible, it is a promising one that merits additional investigation. Whether our conception or another one is used, a working model is needed to address the existence of a syndrome that has a biological connection to schizophrenia and to address its relation to the nonspecificity of psychosis. To some extent, the emergence of a more unified model of schizotaxia (that is, one that is likely to include most of the major themes of schizotaxia research) is mainly a matter of time. For example, if the current components of the schizotaxia syndrome are validated (that is, negative symptoms and neuropsychological deficits), the concept will certainly evolve to encompass additional dimensions of schizotaxic features (for example, neuroanatomical, neurochemical, neuroendocrine, psychophysiological, social, and other clinical components). As it evolves, an understanding of the interrelations among these dimensions will provide an increasingly integrated view of the predisposition to develop schizophrenia.

The second line of research is related to the first and involves the continued use of the schizotaxia intervention protocol to develop methods to reduce schizotaxia symptoms. Progress in each of these areas will spur progress in the other. As the identification and validation of schizotaxic features progresses, clearer treatment targets will become available. Similarly, as the field develops interventions to reduce symptoms, the pressure to define a syndrome of predisposition will become more acute. Hopefully, each of these lines of research will aid the development of interventions to prevent psychosis in people with schizotaxia.


Funding and Support

Preparation of this paper was supported in part by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)Grants T32-MH17119, U01-MH46318, 2R01-MH43518, R01-MH50647, and R25-MH60485 to Dr Ming T Tsuang and the Veterans Administration Medical Research, Health Services Research and Development and Cooperative Studies Programs; by a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award to Dr Tsuang; and by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award to Dr Stone.


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Manuscript received and accepted June 2002.

1 Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry and Head, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, VA Cooperative Studies of Genetics of Schizophrenia, Psychiatry Services, Brockton–West Roxbury VA Medical Center, Brockton, Massachusetts; Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Clinical Associate, Harvard Medical School, Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

2 Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Researcher, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, Massachusetts; Associate Director of Neuropsychology, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

3 Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Chief of Psychiatric Genetics, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research, Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Masssachusetts.

Address for correspondence: Dr MT Tsuang, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd, Boston, MA 02115
e-mail: ming_tsuang@hms.harvard.edu

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