Related Experiment Videos
Characteristics of patients with the highest plasma catecholamine metabolite levels
M B Bowers1, M E Swigar, F J Hoffman
1Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
The authors measured plasma levels of free homovanillic acid (HVA) and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl-glycol (MHPG) in 350 consecutive psychiatric patients. Among the 22 patients with the highest values for both HVA and MHPG, the primary diagnoses were psychotic disorders, eating disorders, and major depression.