British researchers find that hypertension drugs can treat schizophrenia
British researchers have recently reported that a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure can make people more confident about their own judgments and behaviors. This finding may help develop new ways to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia.
According to the British "New Scientist" magazine website, researchers at the University College London in the United Kingdom tested the metacognitive function of the human brain and found that propranolol (also known as propranolol), which is commonly used to treat hypertension and arrhythmia, can be enhanced. Human confidence.
Metacognition is the understanding and evaluation of people's own thoughts and behaviors, and is related to self-confidence. Patients with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder are often accompanied by symptoms such as low self-confidence caused by abnormalities in metacognitive function. For example, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder will go back and forth over and over again to check whether they have locked the door.
People don't understand the specific mechanism of metacognition. It is generally thought to be related to two specific regions in the human brain. These two regions are regulated by dopamine and norepinephrine, and propranolol has the effect of inhibiting norepinephrine. .
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