Posted by iforgotmypassword on September 30, 2005, at 17:42:58
Dr. Goldstein seems really keen on these for chronic fatigue. would they help someone who often deals with inertia/paralysis and lack of energy and apathy and extreme amotivation?
he spoke very highly of NEURONTIN and KETAMINE.
he placed much importance on regulating glutamate and antagonizing NMDA receptors, but also even the opposite stimulating NMDA receptors to achieve "salience"... hmm does anyone know what he's getting at here.
he doesn't seem to have as much hope in lamictal, but it does inhibit glutamate right? i have a bunch of it all over my house. it was really helping with anger (i think). would it help to try going past the dose i was once on?
he also doesn't seem to put much emphasis on amantadine... is it just too weak as a NMDA receptor antagonist to be very relevant?
another drug he seemed to like was adenosine? he wrote a whole bunch of stuff about that one but i still cant understand what it would do?
i'm kind of finding the structure of this book really random, is there a best way to read it. (not to critize it though, i'm just a really poor reader and everything needs to follow the structure in order for me to be able to grasp things properly) and i like reading technical aspects, but some of them i start to wonder if they are the ones that have any significance or are even fully proven yet, sometimes. i need to be able to get to the points i really need, i am very slow.
he also said estradiol has antidepressant effects by AGONIZING 5HT2 receptors, or would this be a typo?
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