Posted by SLS on May 8, 2011, at 6:52:45
In reply to Re: What Do You Think Of This Idea?, posted by creepy on May 8, 2011, at 0:36:03
> AAPs also antogonize some serotonin receptors and provide some antidepressant effects that way. Maybe your doc thinks the anhedonia / flatness is a depressive symptom?
> Meds like trazodone and nefazodone also work on these same receptors but they dont get prescribed a whole lot.It is too bad that ritanserin will never come to market. It is a selective 5-HT2a/b/c antagonist that would probably do well as an adjunct to standard antidepressants. By itself, it is worthless except as a biological probe to investigate 5-HT receptor function.
Ultimately, pharmacotherapy might advance to the point at which very selective drugs will be designed specifically to use in first-line combination treatment. Of course, gene therapy might emerge first as the treatment of choice.
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