Receptor-mediated psychiatric symptoms

Opponents of MCS argue that behavioral and stress-mediated mechanisms control the symptoms. They claim that MCS most likely represents the overlapping of primary psychiatric disorders, misdiagnosed medical disorders, and classical conditioning. One study found significantly increased prevalence of the panic disorder-associated cholecystokinin B receptor allele 7 in subjects with MCS (Binkley et al. 2001). Three opposing interpretations of MCS are that... 

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