A replication study of violent and nonviolent subjects: Cerebrospinal fluid metabolites of serotonin and dopamine are predicted by plasma essential fatty acids

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 243-249

  Hibbeln, Joseph R ^a   Umhau, John C ^b   Linnoila, Markku ^b   George, David T ^b   Ragan, Paul W ^b   Shoaf, Susan E ^b   Vaughan, Michael R ^c   Rawlings, Robert ^b   Salem Jr, Norman ^a  

^a Sect Clin and Exp Neuropsychol   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Clinical Studies (JCU   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 hydroxyindoleacetic acid; Alcoholism; Arachidonic acid; Cholesterol; Depression; Docosahexaenoic acid; Essential fatty acids; Polyunsaturated fatty acids; Serotonin; Suicide; Violence

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOPAMINE; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HUMANS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; SEROTONIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 19244369218     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00143-7     Document Type: Article

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