CSF GABA in normal subjects and patients with depression, schizophrenia, mania, and anorexia nervosa
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (8) , 1098-1101
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.8.1098
Abstract
CSF GABA of 87 subjects (29 normal control subjects, 11 patients with schizophrenia, 26 with depression, 6 with mania and 15 with anorexia nervosa) was examined. Depressed patients had significantly lower CSF GABA levels than did normal subjects. GABA may have a direct or indirect association with depressive affective disorders.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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