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Vanilmandelicaciduria in the Different Clinical Phases of Manic Depressive Psychosis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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The catecholamine hypothesis of affective disorders proposes that 'some-if not all-depressions are associated with an absolute or relative decrease in catecholamines, particularly norepinephrine, available at central adrenergic receptor sites. Elation, conversely, may be associated with an excess of such amines' (Schildkraut, 1965).
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