The NIMH-MATRICS project for developing cognition-enhancing agents for schizophrenia.
The US National Institute of Mental Health supported an initiative to facilitate the development of pharmacological agents for enhancing neurocognition in patients with schizophrenia. This has been accomplished through a consensus-building process that has included representatives from academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and government. The group has addressed obstacles to drug development that include (i) the lack of a well-accepted instrument for measuring neurocognition in clinical trials; (ii) the lack of a consensus on the best molecular target or targets for drug development; (iii) the lack of a consensus regarding the optimal trial design for either comedication that improves cognition when added to an antipsychotic or a broad spectrum agent that improves cognition and treats psychosis; and (iv) the approaches of regulatory agencies such as the US Food and Drug Administration to approving and labeling a new agent.
Marder
Stephen R
SR
Semel Institute of Neuroscience, University of California at Los Angeles, Calif, USA. marder@ucla.edu
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D009315:National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014481:United States
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents