HISTAMINE-INDUCED VANIL-MANDELIC-ACIDURIA IN THE SCHIZOPHRENIC AND THE NON-SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT
Abstract
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.
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