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Opioid Receptor Blockers May Help Restore a Healthy Dopamine Balance
Discover how blocking an opioid receptor could treat dopamine-related disorders without addictive risks, offering new hope for ADHD, ASD and bipolar disorder.
Current treatments for dopamine-related conditions use agents that can either block or enhance dopamine signaling such as stimulants used to treat attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder including amphetamines, which can have unwanted side effects or lead to addiction. In a newly published study in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from Florida Atlantic University and their collaborators have discovered a potentially safer yet effective treatment for multiple disorders that display altered dopamine signaling. “The discovery of genetic variation in proteins that tightly regulate brain dopamine signaling, like DAT Val559, no matter how rare, can still offer insights into more common disease mechanisms,” said Sammanda Ramamoorthy, Ph.D., co-corresponding author on the study and a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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