Posted by linkadge on December 13, 2006, at 19:53:38
In reply to Re: Atypical antipsychotics as mood stabilizers?, posted by blueberry1 on December 13, 2006, at 18:30:07
>Something like "Serotonin blockage keeps >dopamine receptor fills to below 80%, and >anything over that 80% is what causes pyrimidal >symptoms. Also, the atypicals are more specific >in where in the brain they work. The older >antipsychotics were indiscriminate and binded to >dopamine receptors all over the brain, while the >atypicals are not as general and therefore not >as problemsome.
The dopamine blockade will be dose dependant. The serotonin blockade will not reverse the dopamine blocade, but what it will do is act to release dopamine.
Certain serotonin receptors assert inhibitory controll over dopamine release. As a result blocking certain serotin receptors will release dopamine in certain areas of the brain.
In the end, doctors can say all they want how safe they are now, but only time will tell.Linkadge
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