Dopamine in Social Anxiety Disorder - Social Phobia: 2006




  • Social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder: serotonergic and dopaminergic neurocircuitry.
  • Low dopamine D(2) receptor binding potential in social phobia
  • Dopamine reuptake site densities in patients with social phobia
  • Social anxiety spectrum disorders
  • Blunted growth hormone response in social phobia
  • Low pregnenolone sulphate plasma concentrations in patients with generalized social phobia
  • A neuroactive steroid, pregnenolone, alters the striatal dopaminergic tone before and after puberty
  • Caffeine induces dopamine and glutamate release in nucleus accumbens
  • Caffeine increases pregnenolone and other neuroactive steroids



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