MR-Spectroscopy offers a unique potential to characterize underlying neuronal mechanisms of psychiatric dysfunctions and the effects of psychoactive drugs, at a fundamental neuro-metabolite level in-vivo. We studied two preclinical disease models: the chronic mild unpredictable stress (CMUS) model, a putative model for depression, and a sub-chronic memantine (NMDA antagonist) model, a putative model for psychosis using single voxel spectroscopy (SVS). Our results represents metabolic fingerprinting of dysfunctions utilising live metabolic flux profiling; documenting neuro-metabolic effects of novel psycho-active drugs, presenting novel insights in-vivo. Our results and unique approach, exemplifies the potential value of SVS in early stage drug discovery and its potential translation to clinical research.
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