HISTAMINE-INDUCED VANIL-MANDELIC-ACIDURIA IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIC AND THE NON-SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT
PAUL KOCH PH.D.,
PIERRE LEFEBVRE M.D.,
ROGER LEMIEUX M.D., , and
CAMILLE LAURIN M.D.1
1 Albert Prévost Institute, 6555 West Gouin Blvd., Montreal, Canada.
Intramuscular histamine can be used to confirm a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the young schizophrenic male. It will increase his urinary excretion of vanil-mandelic acid significantly. Histamine induced vanil-mandelic-aciduria will neither occur in the non-schizophrenic psychiatric male patient nor in any psychiatric woman patient, schizophrenic or not.
