Posted by bulldog2 on February 6, 2010, at 8:50:18
In reply to Re: Oregon University's new antidepressant » bulldog2, posted by floatingbridge on February 5, 2010, at 19:07:17
> Crazy, huh? Even the Stanford Guy said dopamine has not been addressed--and clearly there is a percentage of the population for which that is the determining key.
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> Could it also be that the actions of dopamine are not as well understood despite active research, that seritonin and ne were easier to (begin to) utilize?
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> Dopamine seems problematic because it is so powerful--too much, psychosis, impluse control problems (and I'm referring to self-destructive decision-making). Too little is implicated in more illnesses than parkensons that I can name.
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> Just some thoughts from a dopamine responder....
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> fbDopamine makes people feel good so therefore there are issues of addiction that our government wishes to protect us from.
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