Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Systemic neurotransmitter responses to clinically approved and experimental neuropsychiatric drugs

  • Hamid R. Noori,
  • Lewis H. Mervin,
  • Vahid Bokharaie,
  • Özlem Durmus,
  • Lisamon Egenrieder,
  • Stefan Fritze,
  • Britta Gruhlke,
  • Giulia Reinhardt,
  • Hans-Hendrik Schabel,
  • Sabine Staudenmaier,
  • Nikos K. Logothetis,
  • Andreas Bender,
  • Rainer Spanagel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07239-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The precise relationship between neurobehavioural effects and neurotransmitter effects of psychiatric drugs are not always understood. Here the authors develop a database documenting the neurotransmitter response in rats to 258 different neuropsychiatric drugs, and conclude that this neurotransmitter response does not, in general, reflect the current categorisation of those drugs.