Brook Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:26 am
Sanicle wrote: Brook wrote:One last thing on the Vertigo.....
Dopamine increases during meditation.
The neurochemistry of vertigo includes six primary neurotransmitters that have been identified between the three-neuron arc that drives the vestibulo-ocular reflex.
Dopamine may accelerate vestibular compensation.
Causes and symptoms of Vertigo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo
(Scroll to "Pathophysiology" in the veritgo wiki article)
And most important...in the practice of meditation and vertigo in connection to Dopamine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11958969
I found that after a few minutes research...imagine!
Must be the coffee
Don't forget to ground!
Call me dumb if you like Brook, but I really don't get the point you're trying to make with this post. I've done more research on this info you put forth and it seems to me that Dopamine .... as it says on Wiki, one of the six primary neurotransmitters involved ...... is one of the good ones in that it actually
helps with compensating during the sensations associated with vertigo, which is I guess why some forward thinking doctors recommend it for some patients who have the problem.
To quote your quote: "Dopamine may accelerate vestibular compensation." So I looked up vestibular compensation .........
After injury to the inner ear, the brain undergoes a complex set of changes that allow it to adapt to the altered sensory input and
abolish the perception of vertigo. This process is called “vestibular compensation.”
From:
http://umm.edu/programs/hearing/services/vertigo
And your latter link concurs that Dopamine is increased during meditation, even in the title, "Increased dopamine tone during meditation-induced change of consciousness." So I wouldn't say that Dopamine is a problem for me when I experience it during meditation and the cause in my particular case must be something else. No?
Again, I think it's more in relation to your last comment ......... "Don't forget to ground!"
Don;t forget to ground was more of a side not regarding the practice of meditation.
Vertigo:
What are medicines for vertigo and how do they work?
A number of medicines can be prescribed to help with the symptoms of vertigo. They include: prochlorperazine or antihistamines such as cinnarizine, cyclizine, or promethazine. These medicines are the same ones that are used to help treat nausea and motion sickness.
They work by blocking certain chemicals in the brain. Prochlorperazine blocks a chemical called dopamineWhich medicine is usually prescribed?
The choice of medicine depends on what is causing your vertigo and how severe your symptoms are. If you have severe nausea, your doctor may prescribe
prochlorperazine. Why would they prescribe a medication to "block dopamine" for Vertigo?
If meditation increases Dopamine....and to counteract Vertigo they give you a drug to "block dopamine".....logic would conclude increased levels of dopamine might cause said vertigo symptoms?
Here is yet another link to the information I just presented.
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/medicines-for-vertigoAlthough I'd caution taking such a medication....opting for something that might be better suited.
I don't know what's causing your vertigo. Could be an inner ear thing or perhaps something else.
But to conclude if increased levels of dopamine are perhaps there, and Meditation is something you feel might have caused it...while the paper I cited notates increased levels of Dopamine during mediation......while a primary medication for Vertigo is a blocker of Dopamine....one can only conclude no?
btw...I would NEVER call you dumb!
Additional inquires on dopamine and vertigo "symptoms"
https://www.google.com/search?q=virtigo++dopamine3&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb#channel=sb&q=vertigo+dopamine&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official