Trial Outcomes & Findings for Effects of Weekly Dosing of D-cycloserine on Cognitive Function in Individuals With Schizophrenia (NCT NCT00455702)

Participants were stable adult outpatients at an urban community mental health center, ages 18-65 years, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia .

Effects of Weekly Dosing of D-cycloserine on Cognitive Function in Individuals With Schizophrenia

The change from baseline to week 8 on the scale for the assessment of negative symptoms (SANS) total score. Total SANS scores range from 0-100. The SANS is comprised of 5 subscores: Affective Flattening or Blunting (score range 0-35), Alogia (score range 0-20), Avolition-Apathy (score range 0-15), Anhedonia-Asociality (score range 0-20), and Attention (0-10). For each scale, the higher the score the more prominent the negative symptoms were. The total score was computed by adding all the subscale total scores. To compute change in scores, week 8 scores were subtracted from baseline scores, resulting in a change score. Higher values equals greater improvement (i.e. week 8 score was lower than baseline score).

The change from baseline to week 8 on the positive symptom sub-scale of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). Total PANSS positive symptom sub-scale scores range from 7-49. The PANSS positive symptom sub-scale is comprised of 7 items rated on a scale of 1-7: delusions, conceptual disorganization, hallucinatory behavior, excitement, grandiosity, suspiciousness/persecution, and hostility. A score of one on each item 1 absent, 2 is minimal, 3 is mild, 4 is moderate, 5 is moderately severe, 6 is severe, and 7 is extreme. The total score was computed by adding all the items on the sub-scale together. To compute change in scores, week 8 scores were subtracted from baseline scores, resulting in a change score. Higher values equals greater improvement (i.e. week 8 score was lower than baseline score).