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. 2021 Apr 1;12:644271. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644271

Table 2.

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolite means (standard deviation).

Metabolites (I.U.) Schizophrenia Healthy controls p-value
Glutamate (Glu) 7.4 (1.3) 6.6 (0.7) 0.021*
Glutamine (Gln) 2.2 (0.6) 1.8 (0.4) 0.016*
    GABA 0.87 (0.2) 0.95 (0.2) 0.22
Linewidth (LW)a 0.046 (0.02) 0.042 (0.01) 0.55
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)a 73 (18) 76 (16) 0.67
*

p < 0.05, 1 Glu and 1 Gln were excluded, 3 GABA datasets were excluded.

a

LW and SNR as computed by LCModel.

I.U., institutional units.