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- From: yazz@locus.com (Bob Yazz)
- Subject: Re: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.035614.918158@locus.com>
- References: <1993Jan16.183358.14232@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> <1993Jan19.031453.912208@locus.com> <1993Jan20.060221.184@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 03:56:14 GMT
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- bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (William E. White ) writes:
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- | No, it's not, which is why it never made any sense to me to do this, but
- | I know a lot of people that the doctors at OU have put on fluoxetine for
- | SAD. It works, after 3 weeks, probably by downregulation of 5HT receptors,
- | but this is probably a stupid way of fixing the problem.
- |
- | I expect that new 5HT uptake inhibitor
- | (don't remember the name -- Zoloft?) could be used.
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- If fluoxetine (Prozac) is a stupid way to fix the problem, why would
- sertraline (Zoloft) be any smarter? Both are 5HT reuptake inhibitors.
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- == Bob Yazz ==
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