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Abstract
Elevated pretreatment plasma free homovanillic acid (HVA) predicted acute response to neuroleptic treatment in patients with manic psychosis. These findings suggest that plasma HVA may be a useful predictor of a successful short-term response in manic as well as schizophrenic psychoses, and that elevated pre-synaptic dopaminergic release may play a role in more than one group of psychotic disorders.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID： 9495606 DOI： 10.1016/s0165-0327(97)00159-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Affect Disord ISSN： 0165-0327 Impact factor: 4.839