Posted by SLS on July 8, 2005, at 23:45:35
In reply to Re: Regarding the whole Chemical Imbalance thing, posted by linkadge on July 8, 2005, at 22:30:29
I think the term "chemical imbalance" is used more often in layman's explanations than it is in scientific literature. It is an easier concept to grasp as opposed to things like "trans-synaptic receptor dysregulation" or "second-messenger cascade gene transcription events" or "white matter hyperintensities" or "hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis dysregulation" or many of the other more specific descriptions portrayed in current models of depression. The key issue here is not whether the pathology of depression includes variable concentrations of neurotransmitters, but rather that it have any biological component at all. It does.
- Scott
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