Heres all the studies I have compiled about the link between glucose and dopamine. (I hope this thread stays clean this time. I dont want to see it deleted again.)
I. BRAIN GLUCOSE METABOLISM AND DOPAMINE/ANXIETY
Anxiety Disorders - The Dopamine Connection And Why It Actually Is All In Your Head
http://www.scientificblogging.com/n...ction_and_why_it_actually_is_all_in_your_head
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:8101394
Another one showing relationship between glucose metabolism and anxiety in bipolar depression:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:19962861
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.c...191-6/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147524
Dopamine agonist treatment ameliorates hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and the elevated basal insulin release from islets of ob/ob mice
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9784590
Gender difference in relationship between anxiety-related personality traits and cerebral brain glucose metabolism.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682867
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1q19u1j055l5231/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=46334b8f62dbd636fbfaa53cbdf97794
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=466df4a50ac74587cd5b71a231922bcd
I. BRAIN GLUCOSE METABOLISM AND DOPAMINE/ANXIETY
Anxiety Disorders - The Dopamine Connection And Why It Actually Is All In Your Head
http://www.scientificblogging.com/n...ction_and_why_it_actually_is_all_in_your_head
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...ct/158/12/2015
Same relationship found in cocaine abusers:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:8101394
Another one showing relationship between glucose metabolism and anxiety in bipolar depression:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:19962861
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...a8bb69af914309
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3157422
Also this study shows that administration of antipsychotic medicine Haloperidol that works by reducing dopamine shows relationship between low dopamine and low cerebral glucose utilization:
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.c...191-6/abstract
http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/ind...&therow=228518
http://www.jbc.org/content/280/44/36824.full
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/146...ent=a747898680
Disruption of the dopamine d2 receptor impairs insulin secretion and causes glucose intolerance.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147524
Dopamine agonist treatment ameliorates hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and the elevated basal insulin release from islets of ob/ob mice
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9784590
Gender difference in relationship between anxiety-related personality traits and cerebral brain glucose metabolism.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19682867
Cocaine and amphetamine modification of cerebral energy metabolism in vivo
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1q19u1j055l5231/
Serotonin mediates rapid changes of striatal glucose and lactate metabolism after systemic 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "Ecstasy") administration in awake rats
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=46334b8f62dbd636fbfaa53cbdf97794
Regional brain glucose metabolism: Correlations to biochemical measures and anxiety in patients with schizophrenia
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...serid=10&md5=466df4a50ac74587cd5b71a231922bcd