Posted by ed_uk on February 8, 2005, at 10:08:07
In reply to still going thru stim w/d, posted by zeugma on February 7, 2005, at 18:05:34
Hi Z!
>I've come to expect a certain lack of reason from people in mental health professions. I'll derive what grim amusement I can from today from pondering that one :)
Lol :-)
>I wonder why the TCA's are so much more reliable than these new drugs. My own theory is that since we don't have a clue about the brain yet, relatively speaking, it is the serendipitious discoveries that yield better meds, because we literally don't know what we're aiming at and are more likely to produce favorable results by pure chance than by 'designing' a drug 'rationally.'
Perhaps Strattera and/or desipramine bind to numerous receptors that haven't even been discovered yet, that might explain some of the apparant differences between them. What do you think? New receptors are being discovered all the time. Most drugs won't have even been tested to find out whether they bind to these 'new' receptors. Anyway, the function of recently discovered receptors is generally poorly understood.
Ed.
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