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饮食中血清素的提高可能导致强迫性行为

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题名: 饮食中血清素的提高可能导致强迫性行为
作者: Brett D. Dufour, Olayiwola Adeola, Heng-Wei Cheng, Shawn S. Donkin, Jon D. Klein, Edmond A. Pajor, Joseph P. Garner.
单位: Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
出处: Nutritional Neuroscience,2010,13(6):256-264
语种: 英文
文摘: Dietary etiologies or treatments for complex mental disorder are highly controversial in psychiatry. Nevertheless, diet affects brain chemistry (particularly serotonin), and can reduce abnormal behavior in humans and animals. We formulated a diet that elevated brain serotonin and tested whether it would reduce hair pulling in a mouse model of trichotillomania. In a double-blind crossover trial, dietary elevation of brain serotonin unexpectedly increased hair pulling (P = 0.0006) and induced ulcerative dermatitis (UD; P = 0.001). The causative agent for UD is unknown. Therefore, we fed the treatment diet to a second group of mice to test whether UD is behavioral in origin. The diet increased scratching behavior (P < 0.0001). However, high scratching behavior (P = 0.027) and low barbering (P = 0.040) prior to treatment predicted the development of UD. Thus diet can trigger the onset of a complex disorder in the absence of an underlying metabolic deficit. Furthermore, we propose UD as model of compulsive skin-picking.
关键词: SEROTONIN; DOPAMINE; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; SKIN-PICKING; BARBERING; ULCERATIVE DERMATITIS
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