Posted by medlib on October 26, 2001, at 15:34:50
Hi Cam--
Since your sense of humor is in evidence once more, I'm hoping that that means your new job is going well; how about a progress report? Thanks so much for all the citations! (I'll try to avoid acquiring the dreaded ring.) I notice that most of your list are available from Neuroscion, but I'll probably have to order the BrJPsych one. I'm ready for medicine and related disciplines to follow the commitment of many scientists--to make their pubs freely available to all after 6 months.
Right now I'm wading through the online psychopharm text you recommended. First, I read Stahl on a topic (for context), then, the related articles from the online text (for more tech detail). Your recent post on PB re NTs was helpful, too. I still envision you as the ideal "Ask a Pharmacist" for some big online pharmacy site; your ability to successfully modify your vocab to fit your audience is an undervalued asset.
A Q that probably should be on PB (but I'm reluctant to push my posting luck too far). Do you subscribe to the Serotonin Hypothesis outlined in the 4th Gen text? Specifically, that serotonin's primary NT function is as a modulator of tonic firing of axial motor neurons and balancer of sensory/motor input?
I'm grappling with the role(s) that 5HT2A antagonism may have played in the EPSE of jaw tension I experienced taking Geodon. I'm also trying to understand how d/cing the Geodon led to "false suffocation syndrome"/panic attacks. (I'm having mini-versions of the same thing tapering off Mirapex. It's bound to be a dopamine-mediated response, but what kind? Mirapex has no 5HT action at all.) My main reason for trying to unravel all this is to ascertain if there is something I can take w. Geodon which will ameliorate the EPSE while retaining its mood/energy benefits. So far, Geodon has been the only med that really "worked" (as opposed to "helped") for me.
It's interesting to me that there's no consensus on the definition of atypical APs, even among authors in the same textbook. Such ambiguity makes understanding that much more difficult for my cognitively dulled brain.
Must be "higher-order motor neuron" fatigue---a muddled medlib
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