The effect of iomazenil of reducing levels of
GABA in the brain was used by researchers to exacerbate symptoms in patients with
schizophrenia in a laboratory study, supporting the theory that a GABA deficiency underlies that disease.[4]
^Höll K, Deisenhammer E, Dauth J, Carmann H, Schubiger PA (1989). "Imaging benzodiazepine receptors in the human brain by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)". International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part B, Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 16 (8): 759–63.
doi:
10.1016/0883-2897(89)90158-x.
PMID2559905.
^Goethals I, Van de Wiele C, Boon P, Dierckx R (February 2003). "Is central benzodiazepine receptor imaging useful for the identification of epileptogenic foci in localization-related epilepsies?". European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 30 (2): 325–8.
doi:
10.1007/s00259-002-1083-z.
PMID12552355.
S2CID27969321.
The effect of iomazenil of reducing levels of
GABA in the brain was used by researchers to exacerbate symptoms in patients with
schizophrenia in a laboratory study, supporting the theory that a GABA deficiency underlies that disease.[4]
^Höll K, Deisenhammer E, Dauth J, Carmann H, Schubiger PA (1989). "Imaging benzodiazepine receptors in the human brain by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)". International Journal of Radiation Applications and Instrumentation. Part B, Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 16 (8): 759–63.
doi:
10.1016/0883-2897(89)90158-x.
PMID2559905.
^Goethals I, Van de Wiele C, Boon P, Dierckx R (February 2003). "Is central benzodiazepine receptor imaging useful for the identification of epileptogenic foci in localization-related epilepsies?". European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 30 (2): 325–8.
doi:
10.1007/s00259-002-1083-z.
PMID12552355.
S2CID27969321.