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CSF GABA in caregiver spouses of Alzheimer patients

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.6.787

The authors studied CSF gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in 14 Alzheimer patients and nine age-matched normal subjects. The five normal subjects who were wives of the demented patients had higher CSF GABA concentrations than the four normal subjects without demented spouses.

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