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...filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result of the short gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible for being anxious than is the hemophiliac for his medical condition. The fault is not mine; it's in the genes. Not a character flaw but a genetic...
According to an article published last week in Science, researchers have discovered two variations in a gene that affects the way brain cells respond to serotonin (serotonin, of course, is the superstar neurotransmitter targeted by Prozac and other antidepressants). The gene comes in a short and a long version, and the study found that the short promotes fewer of the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption. The long promotes the creation of more such molecules. After giving personality tests to 505 individuals (who responded to such statements as "Frightening thoughts sometimes come into my head") and taking their blood for genetic...
...okayed the antidepressant Prozac to treat the eating disorder BULIMIA. Research indicates that in women who take the drug, the number of binge-eating episodes is reduced by two-thirds and vomiting sessions by one-half...
Researchers also reported that the new compounds bind the serotonin transporter with potencies similar to Prozac and other antidepressants...
Find a cartoon character. Happily, by 1996, the caricature of 1994, the Angry White Male, had gone on Prozac. Unhappily, he was replaced by the ubiquitous Soccer Mom, who was treated even more simplistically. After all, no one followed the A.W.M. to the grocery store to watch him buy his six-pack. But pundits rummaged around in the S.M.'s sock drawer for clues to how she would vote and wondered whether her choice of oversized minivans was a sign of male envy, like those huge shoulder pads in the power suit...