Posted by jamestheyonger on December 30, 2005, at 14:35:11
In reply to Revolutionary approach to depression, posted by davpet on December 30, 2005, at 6:36:11
"The consensus amongst the medical community is that depression is caused by a lack of the monamines (serotonin;dopamine;norepinephrine) and thus nearly all anti-depressants work in one way or another by increasing the amount of neurtransmitters circulating in your brain"
It is a decades old theory that is not very valid.
Depression is not caused by a defiency of NT's.
AD's have many actions, one is to delay the NT's from being dactivated at the neuron clef or gap.
This should not be over generalized to "increasing the amount of neurotransmitters circulating in your brain". In any case we really know very little about NT's so we are far away from being able to measure them, therefor we don't know what is normal.If slowing reuptake of NT's at the clef where the cause of depression than AD's would be very effective and work quickly. They don't.
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