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Does anyone know whether the results of the study on ecopipam alleviating Augmentation has been published? William Ondo was doing the study.

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Have you tried to research it. ? Or i should say search for it.

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Yes- not found anything so far. It was quite a small study- so maybe that’s why we haven’t heard anything.

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Could very well be the reason. Altho they do publish small studies. Or maybe they are not ready to publish it yet. Who know's.

Have done a brief search, can't find it.

I did find this though and I believe Ecopipam is D1 antagonist

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

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Thanks Manerva. I suspect the trial begun in 2017 by Dr Ondo was to test if these results ( on mice) were reproduced in humans. I’ll look on the RLS foundation site to see if I can find anything.

I think there might have been something about it in the most recent ‘nightwalker’ magazine. I’ll have a look in the morning and post if I find anything. From memory the US rls society was contributing to the funding so there should be something on their website.

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Thanks Lotte. I’ll have a look on the site.

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clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...

'No results posted'.

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Thanks Parminter. Maybe I should contact Dr Ondo. The trial was supposed to end in October 2018.

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clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...

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The problem with this drug, even if it does work, is that it uses one drug to deal with side-effects of another. And so on ad infinitum. Every addition will carry its own burden and unknowable interactions. That bothers me a lot.

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Yep- we seem to be constantly trying to stay one step ahead but ending up two steps behind.

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This bunch has never been one step ahead, unless you count all the night walking.

But I do admire Doctor Ondo, and do not doubt he is doing his utmost to help us to stop this particular, undesirable nocturnal exercise.

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I dont know .apologies

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