Posted by SLS on December 3, 2006, at 12:04:31
In reply to Re: Maybe all drugs are like this » SLS, posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 11:42:26
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> > It has long been counseled by psychopharmacologists to avoid "pulsing" antidepressants so as to prevent non-response. This recommendation has been given since the age of the tricyclics. If one were to take at face value the reports of people posting on psychobabble, this phenomenon of non-response upon re-exposure to a previously effective drug is fairly common.
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> This "pulsing" -- could it be like the
> "refractory" period in nerves? For example,
> your eyes do not react to light the same
> after exposure to very bright lights; the same
> with some other stimulating experiences of the
> body.
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> Squiggles
I really don't know.Perhaps there is a sort of "memory" that exists in gene expression. Upon re-exposure to the same drug, the system is quicker to respond to the challenge and produces an equilibrium prior to the establishment of a remission.
- Scott
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