Tomomi Nakahara, Sakiko Tsugawa, Yoshihiro Noda, Fumihiko Ueno, Shiori Honda, Megumi Kinjo, Hikari Segawa, Nobuaki Hondo, Yukino Mori, Honoka Watanabe, Kazuho Nakahara, Kazunari Yoshida, Masataka Wada, Ryosuke Tarumi, Yusuke Iwata, Eric Plitman, Sho Moriguchi, Camilo de la Fuente-Sandoval, Hiroyuki Uchida, Masaru Mimura, Ariel Graff-Guerrero, Shinichiro Nakajima
BACKGROUND: The glutamate (Glu) and gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) hypotheses of schizophrenia were proposed in the 1980s. However, current findings on those metabolite levels in schizophrenia have been inconsistent, and the relationship between their abnormalities and the pathophysiology of schizophrenia remains unclear. To summarize the nature of the alterations of glutamatergic and GABAergic systems in schizophrenia, we conducted meta-analyses of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1 H-MRS) studies examining these metabolite levels...
September 28, 2021: Molecular Psychiatry