Posted by psychosage on June 20, 2004, at 14:11:27
In reply to Re: Provigil - King Vultan, posted by Dinah on June 20, 2004, at 13:31:25
Provigil operates on a specific kind of norepinephrine receptor called alpha 1 i think. it also affects dopamine in some parts of the brain. that is why there is a concern over rage and psychosis to which my pdoc alerted me. It affects glutamate as well which is why some people have a calm focus and better thinking from it.
Psych drugs have become far more complicated than the big three neurotransmitters now. I read that NE increase can increase dopamine and serotonin increase can decrease dopamine. SO all of this gets extra confusing even when you don't get into subtypes of receptors.
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