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Amino acid levels in depression: a preliminary investigation
A Honig1, J R Bartlett, N Bouras
1Geoffrey Knight Unit for Affective Disorders, Brook General Hospital, London, U.K.
Journal of Psychiatric Research
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Plasma, cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue amino acid levels were measured in 14 patients with affective illness and generally confirm previous findings. There was no correlation between these values and age, sex, family history and levels of anxiety. GABA levels measured in cortex tissue were negatively correlated with depressive mood (P less than 0.05), supporting a possible involvement of GABA in depressive illness.