Posted by Squiggles on August 17, 2007, at 23:06:12
In reply to Re: Did Lithium make me irritable and anti-social?, posted by linkadge on August 17, 2007, at 22:48:50
> Genious has to do with the interconnectivity of brain cells, not with how they happen to be firing. Perhaps genious is unleashed during periods of mania, but an individual is a genious regardless of the affective state.
I don't konw about the interconnectivity of brain cells and genius -- are you suggesting that if they are close together the person is smarter, or if they are more numerous, or of a particular chemical nature, or shape? A correlation between cells and genius is really ambitious scientifically, or should i say non-scientifically. I would take a humbler approach and look at the mental states of geniuses who have mental illness and see if there is a higher correlation, than the rest of the population. Another approach might be the gross anatomical structure of brains of highly gifted people in mathematics, or linguistics, or memory, for example.
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> >Lithium does not affect libido, except when >decreasing the hypersexuality during manic >states.
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> Are you kidding me??? Sexual dysfunction, and decreased libito ***IS*** a possable side effect of lithium.I never had any problems. Perhaps it's your dose?
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> If you are going to sit here and tell me that sexual dysfunction an **impossable** side effect of lithium, I don't think I can continue with this thread!!
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Not impossible, but very unlikely for lithium. I'm sorry if that shocks you-- again, dose?
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> >This DHEA theory is just one among many >explanations of how lithium works. The ion >transfer is an early one, the glutamate theory, >the endocrine theory-- this one has to do with >its effect on neurochemistry. But lithium is >unique in its ability to allow existing >chemicals in the brain to pass through cellular >openings. I don't know much about it but it is >unique in this way, unlike the drugs which alter >neurological states.
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> So, you admit to not completely knowing how it works, and yet completely know how it works??Now now.... what i have to do here is drudge up all the research on this topic -- i only recall the general themes. I hope to get back to you tomorrow on this, because it's kind of late now.
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> By saying that it is impossable for a drug to produce a particular side effect, you are saying that you completely know how the drug works.I certainly did not say that, nor mean it.
I'll get back to this when i have more time. I'm sorry it's late for such an extensive topic now.
Squiggles
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