title: Developing biochemical profiles for various psychiatric diseases.
abstract: It is well known, that most of the psychiatric diseases affect various neurotransmitter systems. It is the aim of this profile to define a set of cheap analyses, indicative for a specific psychiatric disease, to facilitate differential diagnosis and to offer an additional tool to the already existing clinical-descriptive methods.
authors.affiliation: Sächsisches Krankenhaus für, Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und, -Psychotherapie, Bahnhofstrasse, 08228 Rodewisch, Germany. helmut.niederhofer@skhro.sms.sachsen.de
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niederhofer
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000378:metabolism*; D008962:Models, Theoretical