N-Acetylaspartate Metabolism Underlays the Structural and Functional Units of the Vertebrate Brain: A Bioenergetic Rationale for Clinical Observations of Changes in the Neuronal Biomarker "NAA" in many Human Brain Disorders

Morris H. Baslow^1* and Alessandro P. Burlina²

¹Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for neurochemistry, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA

²Consultant in Neurometabolic Hereditary Diseases at the University Hospital of Padua, Neurological Unit, St. Bassiano Hospital, Via dei Lotti 40, I-36061 Bassano del Grappa, Italy