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Dr. Hervey Cleckley was one of first to define antisocial disorder. In antisocial, the individual's sensory perceptions and logic goes from 'normal' to hypo, similar to how bipolar go from depressed to manic. Low serotonin has been cited, dopamine that is too high, and low norepinephrine have been cited.

Antisocial's have emotions such as tyrannical, glib, grandiose. They can be volatile. These symptoms do not constitute the entire make-up of the antisocial, however, because they possess qualities such as love and embarrassment, tho they diminish as the antisocial cycles.

Dopamine is involved in bipolar, Parkinson's autism, anxiety, ocd, schizophrenia, bulimia, fever, anorexia, antisocial, and Tourette's. Problems with dopamine have caused billions of people to blurt out expletives, experience unanticipated movements, become immobile, swing from deliriously happy to suicidal, believe their children are aliens, feel afraid, feel compelled to bang on a table, not be able to stop counting, feel surreal, feel hyperactive, become paralyzed, diminish short and long term memory, cause brain damage, forget who their loved ones are, wash their hands non-stop, hit themselves, tic, stutter, bark like a dog, or force themselves to throw up, so antisocial behaviour should not be considered outside the norm. Antisocial people blush, cry when hurt, choke up, become nervous, and react shyly. Bottom line is all disorders share similar chemical dysfunction.

Theories are that thyroid is involved in antisocial. Of note is that thyroid has been proven to be important in bipolar. Nobel laureates, ascertain high T3 hormone in the thyroid and slow monoamine oxidase enzymes occur.

(A clinical case series of six extremely aggressive youths treated with olanzapine. Soderstrom H, Rastam M, Gillberg C. Department of Forensic Psychiatry - All but one started to respond within one week. The subjects described an increased sense of well being. Olanzapine has a higher affinity for 5-HT2 serotonin receptors than D2 dopamine receptors.)There is a theory that carboxylase enzymes are too fast in creating serotonin, so too much serotonin is destroyed, before it reaches the brain. In Europe they give 5-htp and carbidopa together, but levadopa would create more dopamine, which might make antisocial worse.

Things that might help. Give strict controls to pollution, toxins, insecticides and pesticides. Boil drinking water and buy filters, cause chlorine and fluoride pose a risk. Purify our water, then filter the chemicals out before it reaches the public or substitute with reverse osmosis or both. Public water filters need to be made mandatory. Adult stem cells.

Updates: Nov. 09 Gaba works for the antisocial.

Endurance exercises manufacture more fatty acids, which causes the tryptophan (precursor to serotonin) to enter the brain. Endurance exercise is suggested for five to seven days a week, two to four or more hours a day. Endurance exercise uses up the competing amino acids, which in turn, allows for tryptophan (precursor to serotonin) to enter the brain, unopposed. Thyroxin, used for hypothyroidism, speeds up digestive enzymes, which create amino acids that compete with tryptophan so would not be the first line of defense. Anyone can contribute, but please don't erase. Please write under this.

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