SERUM PHENYLALANINE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
- 1 July 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 131 (1), 74-76
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-196007000-00009
Abstract
A study of the fasting serum phenylalanine levels of 40 chronic schizophrenic patients and 15 normal controls was undertaken. The mean value obtained for the patients was 2.65 mg per cent; for the controls, 1.88 mg per cent. A t-test for the significance of the differences gave a p value of .003. Within the clinical subtypes of catatonic, hebephrenic, mixed, paranoid, and simple, only the mixed type did not show a significantly elevated level of phenylalanine. The significance of the results and the importance of the biochemical genetic approach to mental disorder are discussed.Keywords
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