I don't have an answer to the agnonist antagonist dilemma, but I assume it might have something to do with muscarinic and nicotinic receptors and their distribution. I've heard that SSRIs tend to increase the vividness of dreams, although not necessarily make their content any more bizarre. Carol
Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Marc Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:13 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [SPAM] - [tips] In your dreams! - Bayesian Filter detected spam When I was quitting smoking and used the patch, if I wore one overnight I had incredibly vivid dreams -- and I'm not one who typically recalls dreams. I always thought they could market those things as dream-enhancers. It was better than going to the movies. I'm not sure how the link between nicotinic-receptor blockers and cutaneous nicotine would work, though -- and am running to get to class. Ideas, anyone? Why would a blocker (I assume an antagonist) produce the same effects as an agonist? m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:07 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [SPAM] - [tips] In your dreams! - Bayesian Filter detected spam Just about a month after citing William Domhoff that dreams aren't really so bizarre most of the time, I'm back with news that dreams can be really bizarre, such as dating dinosaurs and messing with Wild Bill Hickock. The catch is that you have to be on a new anti-smoking drug called Chantix which blocks nicotine receptors. See http://health.coloradosprings.com/fullStory.jsp?id=5482 If Beth doesn't want to hear any more such dreams, she'd better ban users of it from her classroom. Pfizer, which is on the verge of a massive campaign to promote Chantix, coyly warns the drug may be accompanied by "changes in dreaming". What, you expected accurate information from a drug company? BTW, I seem to recall a TIPSter a long way back reporting that when he went on an earlier anti-smoking drug, he also experienced vivid dreaming. Was it Zyban (aka that atypical anti-depressive Wellbutrin)? Perhaps it's not the drug but the quitting that's responsible. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- --- ---
