Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry, 10th Edition

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Transporters  Dopamine Amphetamine and cocaine cause increase in dopamine. Tourette's syndrome shows increase in dopamine transporter system (may account for success of dopamine blocking therapies).  Serotonin Serotonin binding is low in depression, alcoholism, cocainism, binge eating, and impulse control disorders


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