Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neurotransmitter-stress syndrome


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  09:21, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Neurotransmitter-stress syndrome

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not in pub med Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 19:08, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * A neurotransmitter is substance like dopamine or acetylcholine that helps trigger a neuron to fire. The idea that schizophrenia is related to "neurotransmitter stress" seems wrongheaded to me  I was taught that schizophrenia is an umbrella term for a family of conditions some of which are causally unrelated to others  so I checked the references in the article.  The first one's a 404.  The second one's a print source I don't have.  The third one rests on a paper called "Dincin 1990".  I presume this is Jerry Dincin (wow --- that's a redlink?), a man who's nowadays famous for being a right-to-die advocate but back when I was in university he was a prominent figure in the treatment of the severely mentally ill.  What we need is to find his 1990 paper.  (And write his biography.  He's undoubtedly notable.)— S Marshall  T/C 20:11, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Looie496. You're certainly right: that's not a strong enough source for a Wikipedia article.  Redirect to Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia.— S Marshall  T/C 22:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete The term apparently originated in this article: Dincin, Jerry. "Speaking out." Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal 14.2 (1990): 83. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/prj/14/2/83/ That journal, like many Psychology journals, is not listed in PubMed. I don't believe this is a strong enough source to justify a Wikipedia article -- Google Scholar lists only 6 cites for the Dincin paper, and none of them are very meaningful. Looie496 (talk) 22:27, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:25, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:25, 10 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Only two articles on Google Scholar that personally would like to see neurotransmitter/stress syndrome being used instead of either "shizophrenia", "manic depression" or "mental illness". I don't think a redirect as described above would cover these various terms. - HyperGaruda (talk) 19:19, 10 December 2015 (UTC)


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