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Tricyclic antidepressants side effects

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants
  • Post published:1 March 2020
  • Post last modified:5 April 2025

The receptor affinities for H1, A1, Muscarinic (m1-6 subtypes) etc determine much of the profile of side effects.  This varies a lot between the various available TCAs (see detailed information…

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Live Tranclypromine Professional Talk

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Other
  • Post published:24 August 2019
  • Post last modified:19 June 2022

Welcome to the special portal giving you access to information relevant to my talk about tranylcypromine on its introduction in India in August 2019.  This page summarises the links relevant…

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Dietary Lithium: A critique of the claimed effect on depression and suicide

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Mood Stabilisers
  • Post published:23 February 2019
  • Post last modified:7 February 2026

A critique of papers claiming associations between lithium in tap water and dementia, depression, aggression based on the false premise that tap-water is a source of dietary lithium.

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Sugar, alcohol and evolution

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Odds & Ends
  • Post published:7 February 2018
  • Post last modified:26 November 2023

These commentaries are based on Dr Gillman’s peer reviewed scientific papers, see Publications, SummaryPlants have co-evolved with animals over hundreds of millions of years and they manipulate animals in many ways,…

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