Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:787-788
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association
CSF GABA in caregiver spouses of Alzheimer patients
N Pomara, D Deptula, MP Galloway, PA LeWitt and M Stanley
Lafayette Clinic, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Mich.
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.
