Posted by SLS on May 30, 2010, at 16:15:27
In reply to Re: Depression? whats that? i can't remember » Bob, posted by Conundrum on May 30, 2010, at 15:09:33
> Same here. :-/ I guess I could try an experiment with my left over ritalin. I think tricyclics work similarly to, they increase norepinephrine via reuptaked blockade and dopamine release and block reuptake in some places.
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> Interesting about the scans. It would be neat if they could find meds that worked in certain areas and prescribe them first rather than make everyone go on the drug medi-go-round.I think it will eventually happen. They could challenge the brain with drugs to be used as probes and then see on a PET scan which areas light up. Perhaps there will be tests using microarrays to determine which genes are turned on and which are turned off.
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but in how hard the climb.The measure of success lies only in how high one feels he must
climb to get there.
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