Cerebrospinal fluid levels of phenylacetic acid in mental illness: behavioral associations and response to neuroleptic treatment.
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of phenylacetic acid in mental illness: behavioral associations and response to neuroleptic treatment.
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精神疾病中苯乙酸的脑脊液水平:行为关联和对精神安定治疗的反应。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0447.1995.tb09785.x
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Davis,JM
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作者:
Sharma,RP;Faull,K;Javaid,JI;Davis,JM
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of phenylacetic acid (CCSF PAA) were obtained from normal controls and from drug‐free psychiatric inpatients (schizophrenia, major depression, mania, and schizoaffective disorder). Post‐treatment CCSF PAA levels were obtained from 16 patients after 4 weeks of neuroleptic treatment. Phenylacetic acid levels were higher in women and were significantly correlated with age. There were no differences in CCSF PAA levels between the various diagnostic groups and no difference between the paranoid and the nonparanoid subtypes of schizophrenia. CCSF PAA was significantly correlated with several measures of psychopathology, especially the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale hostility/suspiciousness factor. Neuroleptic treatment did not result in significant PAA changes. These findings are discussed in light of the amphetamine‐like role ascribed to phenylethylamine, the precursor of PAA.