biogenic amine hypothesis

biogenic amine hypothesis

any of a variety of hypotheses, such as the catecholamine hypothesis and dopamine hypothesis, that consider abnormalities in the physiology and metabolism of biogenic amines essential to the etiology of certain mental disorders.

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