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Alcohol increases inhibitory neurotransmission, an effect mediated through GABA receptors. With chronic alcohol exposure, the inhibitory effects diminish. Glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) catalyzes glutamate in the synthesis of GABA. We sought to determine the amount of GAD 65/67 mRNA in anterior cingulate cortex (BA24) and orbital prefrontal cortex (BA45) of medication-free alcoholics and nonpsychiatric controls postmortem. Studies were performed in 16 pairs of nonpsychiatric controls and alcoholics, matched for age, sex and PMI. DSM-IV diagnosis of alcohol use disorder (AUD) was made by the SCID I in a psychological autopsy. Frozen blocks of BA24 or BA45 were sectioned (10 µm) for in situ hybridization of 35 S-labelled riboprobe for GAD 65/67 mRNA and autoradiograms were analyzed by quantitative densitometry. Three isodensity bands of labeling were evident, with different relative amounts of GAD 65 and GAD 67 (outer and inner, predominantly GAD 65 , intermediate predominantly GAD 67 ), and the isodensity bands were analyzed separately. GAD 65/67 mRNA levels were not different between alcoholics and controls in the gray matter of BA24 ( p = 0.53) or BA45 ( p = 0.84) or in any of the three isodensity bands in which the GAD 65/67 mRNA was distributed. GAD 65/67 mRNA in white matter underlying either region was also not different in alcoholics ( p &gt; 0.05). GAD 65/67 mRNA levels did not correlate with age, sex or duration of alcoholism in either BA24 or BA45. Effects on inhibitory neurotransmission in alcoholics do not appear to be associated with change in the levels of GAD 65 or GAD 67 mRNA.

GAD mRNA in Orbital Prefrontal Cortex and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Alcoholics Compared with Nonpsychiatric Controls: A Negative Postmortem Study