Study shows social phobes have less GABA

Posted by Michael Bell on May 13, 2009, at 21:59:45

I guess this is something that we all kind of figured, but I had not seen a study on it yet. After all, the most effective substances for social anxiety (klonopin, nardil, GHB and alcohol) share the trait in that they all have major effects on GABA. Anyway here is the study showing that people with soical phobia have significantly less GABA in the medial prefrontal cortex, which may explain why gabaergic drugs work:
http://scnp.dk/journal/index.php/SCNP/article/view/77

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