Psychiatry Research
Volume 144, Issue 1 , Page 95, 30 September 2006

Erratum to “Involvement of GABAA receptor modulating neuroactive steroids in patients with social phobia” [Psychiatry Res. 137 (2005) 131–136]

  • Neil Laufer

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Felsenstein Medical Research Cente, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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  • Rachel Maayan

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Felsenstein Medical Research Cente, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • ,
  • Haggai Hermesh

      Affiliations

    • Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Adult Outpatient Department, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • ,
  • Sofi Marom

      Affiliations

    • Adult Outpatient Department, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • ,
  • Royi Gilad

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Felsenstein Medical Research Cente, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • ,
  • Rae1 Strous

      Affiliations

    • Beer Yaakov Mental Health Centre, Beer Yaakov, Israel
    • ,
  • Abraham Weizman

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Felsenstein Medical Research Cente, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Adult Outpatient Department, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
    • Research Unit, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Campus, P.O.B. 102 Petah Tiqva 49100, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Research Unit, Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Campus, P.O.B. 102, Petah Tiqva 49 100, Israel. Tel.: +972 3 9258290; fax: +972 3 9241041.

Received 23 September 2004; received in revised form 16 May 2005; accepted 13 July 2005.

Article Outline

 

The authors regret that some errors occurred in the abstract of the above-mentioned aricle. The corrected abstract is now printed below.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester (DHEA-S), neurosteroids synthesized in the brain, are weak gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) A receptor allosteric antagonists that may be involved in anxiety disorders. In the present study we measured the circulatory levels of DHEA, DHEA-S, pregnenolone and cortisol in untreated patients (n=26) diagnosed with social phobia (SP) compared with sex- and age-matched healthy controls (n=21). No significant differences in neurosteroids were observed in untreated SP patients and compared with healthy controls. The findings may reflect an absence of involvement of the GABA(A) modulators DHEA, DHEA-S and pregnenolone in SP.

PII: S0165-1781(05)00349-5

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2005.10.011

Refers to article:

  • Involvement of GABAA receptor modulating neuroactive steroids in patients with social phobia

    Neil Laufer, Rachel Maayan, Haggai Hermesh, Sofi Marom, Royi Gilad, Rael Strous, Abraham Weizman
    Psychiatry Research 15 November 2005 (Vol. 137, Issue 1, Pages 131-136)

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