New ideas for old drugs

May 27, 2013 ~ spesaeterna

My new article on the EPFL homepage is up! Sulfonamide antibiotics and their neurological side-effects.

You can read it here.

— Nik

3 thoughts on “New ideas for old drugs”

themodernidiot

June 13, 2013 at 21:10

So what does it do to Schizophrenics who they claim have an excess of dopamine floating around?

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- spesaeterna
  
  June 13, 2013 at 21:25
  
  I don’t know of any studies that have tested that. It would have to do with the extent of BH4 inhibition. But then again, I’m not sure how much excess dopamine accounts for schizophrenia symptoms.
  
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  - themodernidiot
    
    June 13, 2013 at 21:35
    
    I know. I agree the dopamine theory is fragile at best, but it would be interesting to see.
    
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