Saturday, June 30, 2007

CNN on stuttering & Pagaclone







(thx to Dave for the link)

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

This CNN segment continues to point to what appears to be an inconsistency. Maguire argues that stuttering is caused by too much dopamine. Yet pagaclone is a partial agonist with respect to GABA, another neurotransmitter (i.e., it has a high affinity for the benzodiazepine binding site on the GABA-A receptor, much like ativan but without the sedative effect). We also know that dopamine cannot be synthesized without the presence of GABA (without GABA, the chemicals that react to ultimately form dopamine are oxidized instead; see http://www.restoreunity.org/oxidation_ldopa_parkinson.htm). So, might it be that pagoclone, like GABA, facilitates the production of more dopamine, thus negating the "too much dopamine" hypothesis?

Anonymous said...

Why is it subtitled in portuguese?

Tom Weidig said...

someone in Portugal or Brasil (more likely) put it on youtube.com.

Anonymous said...

Willme, with the pagoclone there will be a less quantity of faineant GABA available to take place in the reaction of synthesis of dopamine.

Anonymous said...

Leo:
Not sure what the word "faineant" means. Is that the French word for "idle" or "free?"
As I understand it, GABA is necessary for the formation of dopamine. Is it an enzyme in the chemical process that creates dopamine?
Second, GABA also acts as an inhibitor in the transmission of dopamine across neurons (see recent issue of Time magazine whose cover article deals with addiction). So it appears that while GABA is necessary to form dopamine, it also acts to prevent dopamine's use by the neurosystem.

Anonymous said...

I noted that Maguire provided one additional bit of information that was not mentioned in the June 2007 press release. He said pagoclone helps more than half of the people who take it. (That press release indicated a 38% reduction in the number of syllables stuttered, presumably averaged across all people taking the drug, but did not indicate how those syllables were distributed across all the people taking the drug.)

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Hugo Silva said...

New video link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7814001879103559464

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