Comments on: A man with virtually no serotonin or dopamine http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Serotonin http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-25251 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:31:24 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-25251 These article shows how little do we know about serotonin, its receptors and precursors. But we still give these type of medicine to people and test it on them.

Shame on US!

]]> By: Mark Peterson http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-20094 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:57:10 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-20094 Tried any medicine to raise your dopamine level instead?

]]> By: samer moukaddem http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-19825 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:32:08 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-19825 hello
i used to take many medicine to raise my serotonine level in my brain
i ve been 10 years in this way
please please i need some help to get me out of this……………….
thanks a lot if anyone could help…..

]]> By: Wendi http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-19261 Fri, 06 May 2011 02:25:35 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-19261 However, serotonin is not exactly a “hapy brain chemcial”. It is actually a mood regulator. Dopamine however IS a “feel good” neurotransmitter.

My theories on why he wasn’t depressed are…

1. He was able to generate just enough dopamine to keep himself happy.

2. Another feel good hormone is phenyethylamine, it could have been he was able to produce enough of this to keep himself happy.

3. If serotonin IS an anti-depressant, he was able to make enough of it to mantain a happy disposition.

4. He DID have just enough serotonin to keep him happy (in the case it is the anti-epressant neurotransmitter).

5. There IS a type of depression that we do not fully see as ‘true depression’. There are actually various types of depression, but not all of them have the classic stereotyped “oh, life is horribly unbarable…” sadness. This depression has sympoms like apethy, lethargy, chronic boredom, fatigue and thus, feeling the need to sleep a lot, (otherwise known has ‘the blahs’ by Julia Ross) which it sounds like he had. Thus, he could have very well been depressed, just not the sad, pitiful “woe is me” type we so often diagnose as depression.

]]> By: Foxx http://mindhacks.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-5021 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:33:35 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/a-man-with-virtually-no-serotonin-or-dopamine/#comment-5021 If someone had no serotonin how would they react to new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? would they be violent?

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