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Delayed Negative Symptom Response to Antipsychotics: An Individual Participant Data Analysis

Leucht, S.; Harrer, M.; Illing, S.; Levine, S. Z.

2025-06-09 psychiatry and clinical psychology
10.1101/2025.06.09.25329268 medRxiv
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This protocol outlines an individual participant data (IPD) analysis investigating the temporal dynamics of schizophrenia symptoms during antipsychotic treatment. Using harmonized data from six antipsychotic drug trials, we aim to examine weekly trajectories of Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) sub-scores over a 26-week period. Our aim is to determine whether reductions in positive symptoms precede and predict improvements in negative symptoms. To this end, will conduct (i) descriptive analyses, showing the trajectories of five PANSS sub-scores over time; (ii) test potential a "delay" until response in negative symptoms (versus positive symptoms) is reached; and (iii) examine if improvements in positive symptoms predict changes in negative symptoms one week ahead.

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