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Investigation of Amino Acids in a Periodic Catatonic Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

L. Gjessing
Affiliation:
Dikemark Mental Hospital, Asker, Norway
A. Bernhardsen
Affiliation:
Dikemark Mental Hospital, Asker, Norway
H. Fr⊘shaug
Affiliation:
Dikemark Mental Hospital, Asker, Norway

Extract

The nitrogen retention, and especially the periodically changing excretion of urea, seems to be a characteristic symptom in periodic catatonia (1). We therefore made it our aim to investigate the amino acids in the urine, and later also in the blood and cerebro-spinal fluid (C.S.F.), throughout the lucid interval and the catatonic phase.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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