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Introduction to Serotonin Toxicity

  • Post author:Sophie Duncan
  • Post category:Serotonin Toxicity
  • Post published:4 May 2025
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThis introductory commentary outlines this complex topic, the features of the condition, the drugs that are capable of inducing it (with a genuinely evidence-based table), the patho-physiology, and medical management. The…

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Update on Recent Case Reports and Reviews of Serotonin Toxicity

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Serotonin Toxicity
  • Post published:26 February 2019
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractIn the last few decades experimental pharmacology, animal models, in vitro HCR receptor assays, in silico computer modelling, and detailed prospective studies in clinical toxicology, have all provided a comprehensive model…

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Serotonin Toxicity Contrasted with Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Serotonin Toxicity
  • Post published:1 January 2005
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThe distinction between NMS and ST continues to generate much poorly informed and confused debate in the literature.  Why, is a puzzle because the evidence is clear that they are…

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Methylene Blue & Serotonin Toxicity Syndrome

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Serotonin Toxicity
  • Post published:14 November 2008
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThis is the story of how an understanding of the spectrum concept of serotonin toxicity led to my hypothesis, then the experimental validation, of the potent MAO-A inhibitor potency of…

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  • Lithium in the Environment, Diet and Body Pt 2
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