Cerebral blood flow changes in man by wake-promoting drug, modafinil: a randomized double blind study
- Authors
- Joo, Eun Peon; Tae, Woo Suk; Jung, Ki-Young; Hong, Seung Bong
- Issue Date
- Mar-2008
- Publisher
- BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
- Keywords
- modafinil; rCBF; spect; statistical parametric mapping; wakefulness
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH, v.17, no.1, pp.82 - 88
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH
- Volume
- 17
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 82
- End Page
- 88
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/123932
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00624.x
- ISSN
- 0962-1105
- Abstract
- To investigate the effects of a wake-promoting drug, modafinil on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in healthy volunteers, we performed Tc-99m-ethylcysteinate dimer single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) before and after modafinil or placebo administration. Twenty-one healthy subjects received single doses of 400 mg modafinil or placebo in a double blind randomized crossover study design. Administrations of modafinil or placebo in a subject were separated by a 2-week washout. Brain SPECT was performed twice before and 3 h after modafinil or placebo administration. For statistical parametric mapping analysis, all SPECT images were spatially normalized to the standard SPECT template and then smoothed using a 12mm full width at half-maximum Gaussian kernel. The paired t-test was used to compare pre- versus post-modafinil and pre- versus post-placebo SPECT images. Differences in rCBF between post-modafinil and post-placebo conditions were also tested. Modafinil decreased Epworth and Stanford sleepiness scales whereas placebo did not. The post-modafinil condition was associated with increased rCBF in bilateral thalami and dorsal pons, whereas the post-placebo condition showed increased rCBF in a smaller area of the dorsal pons when compared with the drug naive baseline condition. Compared with the post-placebo condition, the post-modafinil condition showed higher rCBF in bilateral frontopolar, orbitofrontal, superior frontal, middle frontal gyri, short insular gyri, left cingulate gyrus, left middle/inferior temporal gyri, left parahippocampal gyrus, and left pons. In healthy volunteers, modafinil increased wakefulness and rCBF in the arousal-related systems and in brain areas related to emotion and executive function.
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