Posted by linkadge on July 13, 2004, at 18:36:00
In reply to Re: question for linkadge » linkadge, posted by SLS on July 13, 2004, at 16:56:43
I think a mood disorder is composed of two things.
First, there is the abnormal circutry and cellular structure that caused the HPA axis disregulation,
and then there is the HPA axis disregulation that caused the amormal circutry and cellular structure.
I think that some of the newer mood stabalizers are doing nothing more than short circuiting the limbic system. Good mood stabalizers (so far the only time tested ones) like lithium and valproate acutally repair some of the dammage.
Stopping the cyle is not necessarily sufficiant to ameliorate/reverse the underlying disease.
lithium has an antisuicide effect that is not shared by the other mood stabalizers.
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