Posted by Kari on November 20, 2002, at 13:59:08
In reply to Re: Antipsychotics, posted by linkadge on November 20, 2002, at 6:47:45
Hi Linkadge,
I found your message about the effects of dopamine very interesting.
Perhaps it gets complicated when a person has symptoms of both high and low dopamine at the same time (different brain areas). It is all so confusing.
Another problem in diagnosis is that high dopamine seems to decrease one's ability to communicate and to volunteer information about unusual feelings or perceptions. It would not be too difficult to identify these in a psychotic person. In the case of personality or other disorders involving a disturbed dopamine balance, the person may feel a need to hide certain thoughts and feelings and succeed in doing so without realizing that his subjective feeling of overwhelming shame is preventing him from receiving appropriate treatment. In other cases he may take these perceptions for granted and fail to realize they are problematic.
Kari.
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