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Re: how is welbutrin different from abilify, seroq » yxibow

Posted by platinumbride on April 1, 2006, at 5:20:57

In reply to Re: how is welbutrin different from abilify, seroq » platinumbride, posted by yxibow on April 1, 2006, at 4:06:52

Thank you, yxibow.

What do you mean for a "specificed amount of time"? Am I going to be back where I was, vis a vis depression within 6 months?

Thanks again,

Diane

> > I Do understand that one is and AD and the others antipsychotics, but if they both work on dopamine, why does abilify make bipolar 2 depression better, while wellbutrin does zero?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Diane
>
> Abilify, as an atypical antipsychotic, targets and antagonizes (for a specified length of time and strength) a specific dopamine receptor, D2, while the metabolites of Wellbutrin are general norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors.


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