Posted by Caleb462 on June 23, 2003, at 1:00:27
In reply to ACE, Calling everybody! This may apply to many , posted by McPac on June 23, 2003, at 0:09:32
> Also, the serotonin thing.....I know depression has many causes, so many different neurotransmitters (or whatever) are at play...but as for OCD....do you think that serotonin IS the 'biggie' with that condition? Later!!Well... my thought is, serotonin is the "biggie" in TREATING OCD... but not neccesarilly causation of OCD.
Increasing post-synaptic availability of serotonin over a period of time has been shown to reduce OCD symptoms in many patients - true, however, this does not mean that these patients were suffering from a deficit or imbalance of serotonin activity. It only means that this is one way to treat OCD.
Let me put it to you this way... let's say you have a cut on your arm. You put a Neosporin and a band-aid on it, and it heals. This does not mean that your arm was suffering from a low level of neosporin and band-aids does it?
Anyway, that's my perspective.
P.S. - Because of personal experiences, I also believe the opiod system could be a 'biggie' in treating OCD, if only it was researched. For instance, I'd be very interested in what effect an enkephalinase inhibitor or a delta opiod agonist would have on OCD patients... but this has not yet been tested, and unfortunately, may remain untested.
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