Plasma homovanillic acid correlates inversely with history of learning problems in healthy volunteer and personality disordered subjects

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 149, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 297-302

  Coccaro, Emil F ^a   Hirsch, Sharon L ^a   Stein, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Learning problems personality disorders; Plasma HVA

Indexed keywords

HOMOVANILLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846264918     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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