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Interesting case study - treatment of oppositional teen with high dose SSRI + Oxcarbazepine
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<blockquote data-quote="mindinggaps" data-source="post: 764147" data-attributes="member: 29823"><p>[USER=22840]@Deni D[/USER] Agreed - it's always interesting to find publicly available case studies presented in a manner which can be easily understood by those outside of the medical community. As you say, everyone is able to understand the behaviors and how they are impacted by the medication, but the research on how the medications are impacting brain chemistry is not easy to digest.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, not a tremendous amount has changed with genetic testing. It does tell you how a medication is metabolised in the body, but there still isn't tremendous evidence that indicates this maps onto how effective the medication will be. We are still very much in the trial and error phase of things. However, I do think lots of progress is being made on understanding which classes of medications should be used in a given set of circumstances. As outlined here, while we don't know exactly which medications to use, we know that in the case of extreme aggression where things like atypical depression are ruled out, high dose SSRI is a good place to start. In my opinion, part of the challenge is that ODD and CD in children can lead to many different diagnoses in adults. So first you have to get the right diagnosis in adulthood and whatever it is almost always requires treatment with several medications of different classes, so it becomes a huge challenge. I take 5 medications across 4 different classes and this is by no means unusual...</p><p></p><p>I do hope things improve with further research. I've had a lot of experience with medications and always volunteer my data to be used for case study research in the hope that it can help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindinggaps, post: 764147, member: 29823"] [USER=22840]@Deni D[/USER] Agreed - it's always interesting to find publicly available case studies presented in a manner which can be easily understood by those outside of the medical community. As you say, everyone is able to understand the behaviors and how they are impacted by the medication, but the research on how the medications are impacting brain chemistry is not easy to digest. Unfortunately, not a tremendous amount has changed with genetic testing. It does tell you how a medication is metabolised in the body, but there still isn't tremendous evidence that indicates this maps onto how effective the medication will be. We are still very much in the trial and error phase of things. However, I do think lots of progress is being made on understanding which classes of medications should be used in a given set of circumstances. As outlined here, while we don't know exactly which medications to use, we know that in the case of extreme aggression where things like atypical depression are ruled out, high dose SSRI is a good place to start. In my opinion, part of the challenge is that ODD and CD in children can lead to many different diagnoses in adults. So first you have to get the right diagnosis in adulthood and whatever it is almost always requires treatment with several medications of different classes, so it becomes a huge challenge. I take 5 medications across 4 different classes and this is by no means unusual... I do hope things improve with further research. I've had a lot of experience with medications and always volunteer my data to be used for case study research in the hope that it can help. [/QUOTE]
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