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Date: 14 Oct 2009
Time: 02:11:12 -0500
Remote Name: 98.210.176.194
I was just reading about how pagoclone, the drug that some believes relieves stuttering, works by reducing the amount of dopamine in the striatum. The theory is that stutterers have too much dopamine there. Since dopamine is associated with stress and activity, I just made the connection that this "stutterers close down under stress" idea could be a result of the negative reaction to dopamine; whereas many nonstutterers seem to get more enlivened by dopamine, perhaps stutterers get discombobulated by it. Maybe I'll take my ideas about this closing down stuff to the pagoclone forums and see what they think. Sorry for taking this off topic a bit. Anyway thanks for the reply Peter. The one thing that I keep being amazed at is the variety of stutterers out there; it's definitely not true that everyone is like me. At the last NSA conference the guy doing genetic research on stuttering for NIH posited that there may be many different genes that cause stuttering, and I'm guessing they may all express slightly different forms of stuttering. And of course they are layered upon an infinite variety of non-stuttering genes. We're unique just like everyone else :-)