text: PURPOSE: To compare << phenelzine >> (PLZ), an antidepressant drug with anxiolytic properties which inhibits [[ monoamine oxidase ]] (MAO) but also elevates rat brain levels of the amino acids ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and alanine (ALA), with vigabatrin (VIG), an anticonvulsant which elevates brain GABA by inhibition of GABA transaminase (GABA-T), with regard to their actions on brain levels of GABA and ALA and on activities of MAO, GABA-T and ALA transaminase (ALA-T).