DOPAMINE, NORADRENALINE AND SEROTONIN SPINAL-FLUID METABOLITES IN TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPTIC PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC SYMPTOMATOLOGY

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作者
PETERS, JG
机构
[1] Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
关键词
Dopamine; Noradrenaline; Schizophrenia; Serotonin; Temporal lobe epilepsy;
D O I
10.1159/000115048
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Cerebrospinal fluid metabolites of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin were studied in two groups of left temporal lobe epileptic patients, the only difference between the two groups being that one group had paranoid schizophrenic symptomatology. Homovanillic acid accumulation was decreased in this group. This finding may be a biochemical indicator of a genetic predisposition to schizophrenic symptomatology in certain epileptic patients. © 1979 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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