@article{9ce1f0aeb3a643009abf87e56786c8ff,
title = "Nocturnal growth hormone secretion in schizophrenic patients and healthy subjects",
abstract = "Plasma growth hormone concentrations were measured at hourly intervals between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. the next morning in 15 drug-free chronic schizophrenic male inpatients and 14 healthy males. Growth hormone secretion was significantly lower in the patients as compared with the controls. Growth hormone release peaked around 1 a.m. in the controls, but a growth hormone peak was absent in the patient group. Increased dopamine activity, increased serotonin activity, or both could explain the absence of a nocturnal growth hormone surge in the schizophrenic patients.",
keywords = "Psychoendocrinology, dopamine, hormones, serotonin",
author = "Kahn, {Ren{\'e} S.} and Michael Davidson and Jack Hirschowitz and Stern, {Robert G.} and David, {Bonnie M.} and Steve Gabriel and Clare Moore and Davis, {Kenneth L.}",
year = "1992",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/0165-1781(92)90107-E",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "41",
pages = "155--161",
journal = "Psychiatry Research",
issn = "0165-1781",
publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
number = "2",
}