Posted by Mitch on September 5, 2001, at 11:28:09
In reply to DOPAMINE - SP and Parkinsons Disease, posted by kregpark@yahoo.com on September 5, 2001, at 2:08:30
> One more on DOPAMINE:
>
> More evidence linking SP with low DOPAMINE:
>
> Those with SP are 5 times more likely to
> get Parkinson's in later life, according to
> at least one large well done study I saw.
>
> Two studies looking at brains (Couldn't say how
> the 2nd but first was MRI I think) showed SP
> folks had dysufnctional (causing low dopamine)
> D2 receptors in striatum in 1 study and don't
> recall the other study exactly.
>I have heard something about that before. Given I have SP and ADHD, the dopamine connection makes a lot of sense to me. When I was taking Adderall (5mg/day), the ability to focus, SIT STILL, and *LISTEN* to other people was dramatic. I also was more interested in being around other people, but I felt edier and then I got panic attacks and it got stopped. Some say it had to do with the non-verbal contextual information coming off of others that probably set off the panic. It was just too overwhelming. That is akin to my difficulty understanding what a song is about or even most of the words in a song being garbled, or having to reread paragraphs because I just forgot what was going on, or having to ask somebody to repeat themselves 2 or 3 times. It is frustrating, I know (and my pdoc believes) I have ADHD, but I can't treat it with a firstline med because it makes my SP worse, although it flattened my mood cycling out. Maybe if I had been treated as a child I wouldn't be having these problems. I don't want to get Parkinsons, but I don't want to be miserable either.
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