Posted by tensor on November 13, 2006, at 18:25:21
In reply to Re: Recently met pdoc/tensor...SPINAL TAP for TRD » stargazer, posted by Phillipa on November 13, 2006, at 17:54:07
Tensor can you comment on this please. Need to know what your doc says.
There's a method for examining Cerebrospinal Fluid(CSF) for transmitter precursors, transmitters and their metabolites. It's probably expensive and can be used for very TRD. The pdoc have had patients in the past who he had sent to a large uni hsopital for this test. It's probably still difficult knowing how to treat a patient accordingly to their spinal fluid content.
Here are some links:
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16115865
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v30/n11/full/1300746a.html
http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/reprint/139/5/493.pdf/Mattias
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