CSF phenylacetic acid and hostility in paranoid schizophrenia. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Lumbar cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of phenylacetic acid were significantly elevated in paranoid vs. nonparanoid schizophrenics. Further, phenylacetic acid concentrations were correlated with hostility. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that phenylethylamine, the proposed precursor of phenylacetic acid, plays a role in schizophrenia.

publication date

  • November 1, 1989

Research

keywords

  • Hostility
  • Phenylacetates
  • Schizophrenia, Paranoid
  • Schizophrenic Psychology

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0024389670

PubMed ID

  • 2616681

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 30

issue

  • 2