TABLE 3.

Correlations of age and CSF GABA with clinical features in mood disordered patients

Variable	Coefficient significance degree of freedom	CSF GABA	Age	Correlation between GABA and clinical variables controlling for age
Age	Rho	−0.377
	p	5.02 × 10−7
	d.f.	165
	n	167
Agitation (HDRS)	Rho	−0.070	0.059	−0.052
	p	0.366	0.451	0.504
	d.f.	165	165	164
	n	167	167	167
Psychic anxiety (HDRS)	Rho	−0.278	0.191	−0.227
	p	2.76 × 10−4	0.014	0.003
	d.f.	165	165	164
	n	167	167	167
Somatic anxiety (HDRS)	Rho	−0.002	0.033	0.012
	p	0.982	0.668	0.881
	d.f.	165	165	164
	n	167	167	167
Hypochondriasis (HDRS)	Rho	0.050	0.030	0.067
	p	0.518	0.690	0.391
	d.f.	165	165	164
	n	167	167	167
HDRS	Rho	−0.079	0.139	−0.030
	p	0.308	0.074	0.705
	d.f.	162	165	164
	n	164	167	167
HDRS no anxiety ITEMS	Rho	−0.029	0.095	0.008
	p	0.709	0.220	0.924
	d.f.	165	165	164
	n	167	167	167
Brown-Goodwin life-time aggression history score	Rho	0.006	−0.159	−0.057
	p	0.935	0.042	0.473
	d.f.	162	162	161
	n	164	164	164