J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 1989; 1:37-39
Copyright © 1989 by American Neuropsychiatric Association
High phenylacetic acid differentiates schizoaffective from schizophrenic patients
HC Sabelli, UN Durai, J Fawcett and JI Javaid
Department of Psychiatry, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
Twenty-four hour urinary phenylacetic acid was high in 12 acutely psychotic
schizoaffective patients (240.3 +/- 51.9 mg/day) and low in 16 acutely
psychotic schizophrenic patients (53.6 +/- 15.1 mg/day). These results
indicate a biochemical difference between these two types of acute
psychoses and indicate alterations in phenylalanine metabolism.
