Posted by aeon on November 20, 2006, at 5:29:01
In reply to CLEVER ONES!..NEED INFO ON BRAIN NEUROTRANSMITTERS, posted by tallclaire1982 on November 17, 2006, at 16:05:30
I just can't see that neurotransmitters are the problem/cause. The unreliability of the studies where they try to induce depression (which turns out to be quite difficult as you have pointed out) through neurotransmitter depletion definitely point to something else.
However I can induce a depression in the guy who sits next to me atr work fairly reliably - just sneeze on him when I've got the flu. He'll feel like crap for at least seven days and he'll be off to the chemist to get drugs straight away "to feel better", even though he frowns on my weak will and mind for taking drugs for my states.
He he - inflammation is the most relaible way to induce depression (what I call sickness behaviour) and the depression comes from prostaglandins affecting just about every system in the body -
from neurotransmitters to cortisol and yes NMDA and BDNF, the HPA axis and all the other correlates.You can mask it but you can't cure it unless you get to the cause.
Cheers
aeon
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