Posted by linkadge on August 28, 2005, at 16:50:15
In reply to Neurotoxicity is a pretty sketchy term, posted by utopizen on August 28, 2005, at 16:12:31
Why even wait for more conclusive evidence? Why bother to pick at the wording of the study? I think it is fully concievable that stimulants can induce dammage to the dopaminergic neurons.
Sure they do die on their own, why accelerate that rate?
From www.biopsychiatry.com
"Normally the brain's irreplaceable complement of 30-40 thousand odd dopaminergic cells tends to die off at around 13% per decade in adult life. Their death diminishes the quality and intensity of experience. It also saps what in more ontologically innocent times might have been called one's life-force. Eighty percent loss of dopamine neurons results in Parkinson's disease, often prefigured by depression."
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