Posted by hgi698 on December 17, 2006, at 11:55:24
In reply to Re: Dopamine deprivation - starvation? » xbunny, posted by ronaldo on December 17, 2006, at 4:07:48
There are several medicines that may improve negative symptoms. These include selegiline (Mao-b selective dose around 5 mg), mirtazapine, amisulpride. Do a search for these and "negative schizophrenia" on this website:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
you should be able to find a few papers published.
There is also an article titled "Negative symptoms: A review of schizophrenia, melancholic depression and Parkinson's disease." Basically it says that negative symptoms are found in several different disorders.
Other things that might help negative symptoms include adderall, ritalin, wellbutrin, buspirone, glycine (a supplement you can buy at iherb.com takes 30 to 60 grams per day to work, I tried it and it made me feel worse though), transcranial magnetic stimulation on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (not FDA approved), Gaba-A alpha 2 modulators (not out yet) that's about it.
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