Alpha-lipoic acid in the treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders: a systematic review.

Abstract:

:Despite the existence of many preclinical studies, scientific evidence is lacking on the clinical use of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) for central nervous system disorders. Therefore, we aimed at revising the literature concerning the use of ALA for the treatment of psychiatric and neurological conditions and to point out what is missing for the introduction of this antioxidant to this purpose. For this systematic review we performed a search using PubMed and SCOPUS databases with the following keywords: "alpha-Lipoic Acid AND central nervous system OR psychiatric disorders OR neurological disorders OR mood disorders OR anxiety OR psychosis OR Alzheimer OR Parkinson OR stroke". The total number of references found after automatically and manually excluding duplicates was 1061. After primary and secondary screening 32 articles were selected. Regarding psychiatric disorders, the studies of ALA in schizophrenia are advanced being ALA administration related to the improvement of schizophrenia symptoms and side effects of antipsychotic medication. In neurological disorders, ALA as a supplement was effective in the prevention of Alzheimer disease progression. For stroke, the use of the supplement ALAnerv® (containing 300 mg ALA) presented important results, since it was observed a reversal of clinical parameters and oxidative imbalance in these patients. For other neurological conditions, such as encephalopathy, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, mitochondrial disorders and migraine, the results are still preliminary. Overall, there is a need of well-designed clinical trials to enhance the clinical evidences of ALA effects for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric conditions.

journal_name

Metab Brain Dis

journal_title

Metabolic brain disease

authors

de Sousa CNS,da Silva Leite CMG,da Silva Medeiros I,Vasconcelos LC,Cabral LM,Patrocínio CFV,Patrocínio MLV,Mouaffak F,Kebir O,Macedo D,Patrocínio MCA,Vasconcelos SMM

doi

10.1007/s11011-018-0344-x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-02-01 00:00:00

pages

39-52

issue

1

eissn

0885-7490

issn

1573-7365

pii

10.1007/s11011-018-0344-x

journal_volume

34

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