Mental Health - Dr. Christopher Palmer - Neuroscience
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The Metabolic Theory of Mental Illness
The theory is that it's the conversion of glutamate to GABA and lower activities result in a higher glutamate content in the brain. And, you know, that results in what we call hyper-excitability of brain cells and brain circuits. So yes, there are people who might have a genetic predisposition to higher or lower levels of specific neurotransmitters. But for the majority of people with these diagnoses, I don't think it's a rare genetic thing. The lifestyle factors coming together to disrupt brain metabolism then results in cells being underactive or overactive,. which can then result in symptoms of mental illness.
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