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- 6 de Oct, 2020
I understand your reservations entirely, and if you look back to where I discussed the "ups" and "downs" of the body, you'll probably see me apologizing profusely for psychobabble. I've written some things that are big-if-true such as "in severe glutamate hypofunction you can't stand to have serotonin and dopamine at the same time", at the same time that I've written little theses like "vitamin C reduces dopamine", which is itself rather underappreciated in the literature I think. But I can write for long enough that what I produce ends up sounding like psychobabble, and I hate that, and I'm sorry for it.
The most I can say is, I've identified schizophrenic "strict affect" as the inability to move the top and bottom of the face at once, which identifies neatly with a serotonin upper half and a dopamine lower half. Thus, presence of strict affect implies bad cognition. But there's another component that's factored in when I pair serotonin with acetylcholine and dopamine with adrenaline. Those are non-aberrant pairs (where adrenaline/serotonin is aberrant), and it works out neatly if acetylcholine is the upper body, and adrenaline the lower body.
If you want some affirmation, look for "adeptness malvolition" among the semi-autistic friends you have - it's the eagerness to do that which one is inept at - and see if those friends that express it have something going on in the upper half - the less relevant half - of the body.
And I wish you could have been there when I was in the ER, struggling to breathe. When I had the tightness of a fist in my chest - and then when I only proceeded so far down as my neck - there was something in my upper body, and I could point to its lower limit.
