Posted by mellow on June 21, 2011, at 3:06:37
In reply to Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, posted by Hombre on June 20, 2011, at 19:27:39
Thanks. Covered about 200 pages of it. The atypicals were the most interesting. I had no clue they were using serotonin antagonism to kind of sneak in through the back door and put the breaks on dopamine in the limbic area. Honestly I had no clue there where four separate dopamine pathways. I just always heard people talk about d2 antagonism and how important it was for psychosis reduction. Now I can understand why I got manic when my doc tapered my risperidone. There was less serotonin antagonism on the front end of that dopamine reduction thus I got peppy again.
Great read! A little over my head at some points but I would love to read some more of that stuff.
mellow
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