Posted by JohnL on October 15, 2000, at 3:07:04
In reply to Re: OCD medications?, posted by Cindy W on October 14, 2000, at 22:37:44
Cindy,
At www.mentalhealth.com I was browsing around in the research section recently and did stumble onto some clinical research findings on Zyprexa+OCD. I was just browsing and didn't look at them very long. But they are there.As I understand it, one of the several possible causes of OCD symptoms is elevated dopamine function. Zyprexa and APs work to reduce dopamine function. At the same time, they tend to enhance serotonin a little bit, through HT2 antagonism. In reality I think all that really matters is what works. There are statistics that show that drugs that have no clinical justification at all for OCD ended up working completely. Of course, the SSRIs are more common, but I just hate that flattening effect which seems fairly common.
John
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