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Seasonal Depression Tied to Serotonin - WebMD, 9/19/07
- Serotonin Implicated
in Atherosclerosis - Medscape, 8/23/07
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Serotonin Syndrome - Medscape, 11/29/06
- Serotonin
may be key to cycle of abuse - MSNBC, 11/2/06
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Serotonin May Play Role In Hardening Of The Arteries - Science Daily,
3/4/06
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Brain Chemical May Be Key in Eating Disorders - WebMD, 9/6/05 -
"Dopamine is a chemical involved in
weight, feeding behaviors, reinforcement, and reward. Now they are reporting
that women who have recovered from eating disorders show abnormal levels of
serotonin"
- Vitamin D May Ease Depression - WebMD, 8/3/04 -
"Vitamin D supplementation ... may also relieve depression ... Basically, what vitamin D does is increase
levels of the [chemical] serotonin in the brain ... About 90% of patients in my hospital are vitamin D deficient" - See
iHerb
 or
Vitacost vitamin D products.
- Corticosteroids, depression and the role of serotonin - Rev Neurosci. 2004;15(2):109-16 -
"corticosteroids lower serotonin levels ... lowered serotonin levels may result in depression, aggression and other psychological conditions"
- Sex, Sexuality, and Serotonin - Medscape, 7/20/04 -
"From our study of the brain, we have some nice evidence that elevated activity of dopamine is involved in that
intense sense of passion and arousal of romantic love. I also maintain in my book, Why We Love, that we're going to find out sometime that norepinephrine is also involved, largely because heightened activity of norepinephrine is also associated with focused attention, elevated energy, motivation to win a reward,
elation, and 2 characteristics of romantic love -- obsessional following and object imprinting ... low activity levels of serotonin are going to be involved"
- Low carbs cause mood 'lows' - Nutra USA, 3/2/04 -
"a lack of carbohydrates will reduce levels of the mood-regulating
hormone seratonin"
- HCA, better than ephedra? - Nutra USA, 2/4/04 -
"study’s principal investigator, Dr Harry Preuss
of Georgetown University Medical Center ... Super CitriMax performed a function not noted in ephedra however - it significantly increased serum serotonin levels (a mechanism of appetite control and eating behavior) and lowered serum leptin levels, a biomarker of the gene that regulates obesity" - See
HCA products at iHerb.
- Hormones for Perimenopausal and Postmenopausal Depression - Psychiatric Times, 1/04 -
"Estrogen inhibits
MAO, thereby diminishing the degradation of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus increasing their activity, while progesterone has the reverse impact on MAO"
- Serotonin Receptors May Be Linked to Spirituality - Psychiatric News, 1/2/04
- Increasing Serotonin Crucial for Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Doctor's Guide, 11/14/03
- Depression-Serotonin Link: Many Mysteries Remain - Psychiatric News, 5/2/03
- Targeting 5HT Receptors Might Control Alzheimer's Dementia - Doctor's Guide, 2/19/03 -
"Compromised serotonergic function might
contribute significantly to cognitive decline in senile dementia and in ageing ... acute tryptophan depletion impaired tasks of working memory in both groups"
- Brain Serotonin Production Directly Related To Degree Of Sunlight - Doctor's Guide, 12/5/02
- Unraveling the Sun's Role in Depression - WebMD, 12/5/02 -
"regardless of the season, the turnover of serotonin in the brain was affected
by the amount of sunlight on any given day. And the levels of serotonin were higher on bright days than on overcast or cloudy ones. In fact, the rate of serotonin production in the brain was directly related to the duration of bright sunlight"
- The Neurobiology of Depression: Focus on Serotonin - Medscape, 11/21/03
- New Antidepressant [Cymbalta] Works Faster - WebMD, 11/11/02 -
"Cymbalta affects two different brain chemical messengers -- serotonin and
norepinephrine"
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Omega-3 May Cut Bipolar Symptoms in Pregnancy - Clinical Psychiatry News, 8/02 -
"Omega-3 fatty acids also boost the brain's levels of serotonin" - See Mega Twin EPA at
iHerb
or
Vitacost .
- Milnacipran Effective In Post-Stroke Depression - Doctor's Guide, 5/29/02
- Depression Linked to Parkinson's - WebMD, 5/28/02 -
"About 1.4% (19) of the depressed people (about 1.4%) developed Parkinson's
compared with only 0.4% of the others ... the link may have a biological explanation, known as the "serotonin hypothesis." Not only do people with Parkinson's disease have lower levels of dopamine in the brain, studies have also shown that the brains of these patients also have reduced
levels of another brain chemical, serotonin. Low levels of serotonin are known to be a key factor in depression" - Note: St. Johns wort is believed to increase all three of the brain's primary chemicals, serotonin,
norepinephrine and dopamine.
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Serotonin Could Mediate Heart Disease Link With Depression - Clinical Psychiatry News, 5/02
- Which Antidepression Drug Is Best? - WebMD, 4/30/02 -
"As initial therapy for depression, most doctors tend to use newer drugs
that target a specific brain chemical -- serotonin -- involved in depression. These drugs, called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or
SSRIs ... Effexor does this, too, but it isn't quite as specific. It also increases the
amount of another chemical -- norepinephrine -- in the brain ... Those who received Effexor were 43% more likely to have their depression go into remission than those taking SSRIs"
- St. John's Wort: Effective, with Caveats - Nutrition Science News, 3/02 -
"Using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, 47 percent
of those taking St. John's wort improved compared with 40 percent of those taking the sertraline ... Hyperforin increases the effectiveness of norepinephrine, dopamine, L-glutamate,
and gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), as well as serotonin. Researchers in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Frankfurt in Germany concluded, "no other antidepressant compound exhibits
a similar broad uptake-inhibiting profile.""
- Study Finds Newborn Mice Deprived Of Serotonin Experience Adult Anxiety - Intelihealth, 3/27/02
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