Posted by SLS on October 21, 2010, at 2:40:17
In reply to Re: Thinking of coming off meds » SLS, posted by huxley on October 20, 2010, at 20:48:58
> Thanks for digging them up for me sls.
> Sorry if what I said was no civil.
>
> I wonder if these scans will be able to show the effects of psych meds on the brain.Yup. Good idea.
PET scans have been used since the early 1990s to produce images of people who are given test doses of various psychotropic compounds. I was one of the first subjects to be experimented with in this way. They used a compound known as idazoxan, to which I was naive, as a single dose. It lit up my frontal cortices in the image. Unfortunately, idazoxan made me feel significantly more depressed when it was given to me as a clinical treatment. My guess is that this was due to the ability of idazoxan to block NE alpha-2 receptors. It was a bit hellish there for a few months.
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