Raphe Nuclei

Tissue Cns

The brain's serotonin source. It sets patience, satiety with a situation and the threshold at which irritation becomes an outburst. Adolescent steroid exposure changes serotonin signalling in animals, and the change reverses direction on withdrawal.

Relationships

2 connections

Raphe Nuclei reduces risk of

Aggression

Hostility and short fuse. Reported consistently by users and in case series, and produced in blinded trials mainly at supraphysiological doses and mainly in a minority of people.

Raphe Nuclei stimulates

Serotonin Signalling

How strongly serotonin is signalling. The system most often named when 19-nor androgens are linked to impulse control, irritability and sleep. Almost all of the evidence is rodent work; nothing has been measured at these receptors in a human on these compounds.

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Raphe Nuclei also connects to 1 entry in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.

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