Posted by SLS on January 10, 2009, at 16:59:14
In reply to Re: Namenda - Mood Influence?, posted by desolationrower on January 10, 2009, at 11:43:25
> The only study i'm aware of indicated it has mood-stabilising property.
Memantine is a real good drug.
However, I imagine that untoward behavioral side effects occur in a minority of people taking memantine. Call them paradoxical effects if no other term applies for these phenomena.
For what it is worth, you can find stuff:http://www.drugs.com/sfx/memantine-side-effects.html
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/bps/article/PIIS0006322396000479/abstract
I just think that one should allow for the possibility that memantine - indeed all psychotropics - can produce unwanted psychiatric side effects that are idiosyncratic to a small number of people who take them. Memantine consistently shows itself to reduce the psychiatric symptoms when used to treat Alzheimers. Perhaps certain vulnerabilities to adverse psychiatric side effects are prevalent in people with multiple sclerosis. The last citation may provide a rationale for memantine having a differential side effect profile depending on the state of neuron populations.Just thinking.
- Scott
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