I feel none the wiser for looking through everything in this post. There is too much that is contradictory. The only thing that seems to make sense is that this is another thing where it seems that imbalance is causative.

Thinking of the maps that show prevalence..... and imbalance. Where do these things connect...

Brain chemistry is such a difficult thing to comprehend, it is not static for one thing. So when you look at something in a petri dish or under a microscope or a bunch of statistics you are looking for something fixed, provable. Cause and effect.

But all the neurotransmitters are dancing - except when they don't work, or disappear - I am starting to think that they really need to use all that fancy neuro-imaging stuff much more creatively - not just for diagnostics, but to look at the dance...... and how the brain regulates the dance......