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์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ์˜ ์ผ์ข…์ธ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ(γ-N-์—ํ‹ธ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฏผ)์€ ์ฐป์žŽ๊ณผ ์‹์šฉ ๋ฒ„์„ฏ์ธ ๊ฐˆ์ƒ‰์‚ฐ๊ทธ๋ฌผ๋ฒ„์„ฏ (Xerocomus badius)์— ํ’๋ถ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…น์ฐจ์™€ ๋Š” ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฐจ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ฐœํšจ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€์ง€๋งŒ, ๋…น์ฐจ๋Š” ๋ฐœํšจ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋งŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…น์ฐจ๋Š” ์ง‘์ค‘๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ์žฌ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์•ฝ์žฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋†์ถ•์•ก ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๋‹จ์ผ ์•ฝ์žฌ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ 3์ฒœ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์˜ํ•™์˜ ์ฃผ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์• ์šฉ๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…น์ฐจ์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ฐจ๋‚˜๋ฌด์˜ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์ง€์™€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜ํ™• ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฐจ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋„ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ฐจ์ธCamellia sinensis๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ข…์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ C. sinensivar์ด ๋” ๋†’์€ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก , ์‹œ์ค‘์—๋Š” ํ•ฉ์„ฑ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ(Suntheanine™)๋„ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ๋™์–‘์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์˜๋ฃŒ ์งˆํ™˜๊ณผ ์ •์‹  ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋„๋ฆฌ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„œ๊ตฌ์˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋„ ๊ธ‰์†๋„๋กœ ํฐ ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐจ์— ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ์š” ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ธ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์€ ์•„์„ธํ‹ธ ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ๊ณผ ๋„ํŒŒ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋‘๋‡Œ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ด์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ธ์ง€๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์ •์„œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์€ ์ธ์ฒด์— ํก์ˆ˜๋˜๋Š” ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋นจ๋ผ ์ธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์œ ์ตํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋„ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์„ญ์ทจ ํ›„ 50๋ถ„์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•ด์•ผ ์ตœ๊ณ  ํ˜ˆ์žฅ ๋†๋„์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์€ ์„ญ์ทจ ํ›„ ๋ถˆ๊ณผ 30๋ถ„์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•  ๋•Œ ์ตœ๊ณ  ํ˜ˆ์žฅ ๋†๋„์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ ์™ธ์—๋„ ์ฐป์žŽ์—๋Š” ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ์ธ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฏผ(Glutamine), ์•„๋ฅด๊ธฐ๋‹Œ(Arginine), ์„ธ๋ฆฐ(Serine), ์•Œ๋ผ๋‹Œ(Alanine), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํŽ˜๋†€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์ธ ์—ํ”ผ๊ฐˆ๋กœ์นดํ…Œํ‚จ(Epigallocatechin), ์—ํ”ผ์นดํ…Œํ‚จ ๊ฐˆ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ(Epicatechin gallate), ์—ํ”ผ์นดํ…Œํ‚จ(Epicatechin), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„ํ”ผ๊ฐˆ๋กœ์นดํ…Œ๊ธด-๊ฐˆ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ(Epigallocatechin-gallate, ์ผ๋ช… ‘์นดํ…Œํ‚จ’)๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ์œ ์ตํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋ง์ฐจ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋…น์ฐจ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์— ์œ ์ตํ•œ ์‹๋ฌผ์„ฑ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๋ฌผ์˜ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋น„๊ต์  ๋†’์€ ํŠน์ˆ˜ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๋…น์ฐจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋™๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ธ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ƒ๋กœ ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์ฃผ๊ด€์ ์ธ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๊ฒฝ๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์˜ ์งˆ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ , ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์งˆํ™˜ ๋ฐ ์‹ฌํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜, ๋น„๋งŒ, ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ธ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ์นดํ…Œํ‚จ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋…น์ฐจ์˜ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ ์ฆํ›„๊ตฐ๊ณผ ๋น„๋งŒ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์—๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ฑ ์‚ฐ์†Œ์ข…(์ฆ‰, '์ž์œ  ์œ ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ')๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฐํ™” ์†์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€ํ‹ฐ์˜จ์˜ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ด์œผ๋กœ, ์Šˆํผ์˜ฅ์‚ฌ์ด๋“œ ๋””์Šค๋ฎคํƒ€์ œ(Superoxide dismutase)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ„ ํšจ์†Œ์˜ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ฆ์ง„์‹œ์ผœ ํ˜ˆ์•ก์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋…์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์—๋Š” ๋…ธํ™” ๋ฐฉ์ง€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋…น์ฐจ์˜ ์นดํ…Œํ‚จ์—๋Š” ํ•ญ๊ท  ๋ฐ ํ•ญ๋ฐ”์ด๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ž‘์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ„์žฅ๊ด€์—์„œ ๋…น์ฐจ๋Š” ์„ธํฌ ๋‚ด ํ•ญ์‚ฐํ™”์ œ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœ์•” ์ „๊ตฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ์˜ ์ƒ์„ฑ์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์ •์‹  ์žฅ์• ์™€ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ

L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ํ•™์Šต ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ์ธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์ •์‹ ์  ์—…๋ฌด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์‹œ, ์„ ํƒ์  ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญํ•™ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด Camellia sinensis์˜ ์žŽ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ทœ์น™์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ญ์ทจํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ํ‡ดํ™”๋ฅผ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ •์„œ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ๋Œ€์ฒ˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ์„ญ์ทจ๋Š” ์ •์‹  ๋ถ„์—ด์ฆ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์œ ๋งํ•œ ์š”๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ •์„œ ์žฅ์•  ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅ ๊ฒฐํ• ๊ณผ์ž‰ ํ™œ๋™ ์žฅ์•  (ADHD), ๊ณตํ™ฉ ์žฅ์• , ๊ฐ•๋ฐ• ์žฅ์•  (OCD) ๋ฐ ์–‘๊ทน์„ฑ ์žฅ์• ์—๋„ ์œ ์ตํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰๋œ ์ž„์ƒ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์—์„œ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ๋‹จ๋…์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ๋ณ‘์šฉ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ •์„œ ๋ฐ ์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณ‘์šฉ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—์„œ ์ •์„œ ํ•จ์–‘๊ณผ ์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ๋‹จ๋… ํˆฌ์—ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •์„œ ํ•จ์–‘๊ณผ ์ธ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ์ฐจ ์„ฑ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ์ •์‹  ์ž๊ทน ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ๋‘ ๊ฑด์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ถ„์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์น˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ๋‘ ๊ฑด์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์ž์„ฑ์  ๊ธด์žฅ ์™„ํ™” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ฆ์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฃผ๊ด€์  ๊ธด์žฅ๊ฐ์„ ์ค„์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์€ ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์šด ์—…๋ฌด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฏผ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ํ™œ๋ ฅ ์ฆ์ง„์— ๊ด€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋™๋ฌผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ๋‘๋‡Œ์˜ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํˆฌ๊ณผํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‘๋‡Œ์˜ ์„ธ๋กœํ† ๋‹Œ, GABA ๋ฐ ๋„ํŒŒ๋ฏผ์˜ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ , ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ์™€ NMDA ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ฒด์— ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‘๋‡Œ ํŒŒ์ƒ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์˜์–‘ ์ธ์ž (Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF)์˜ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ (3-4์ฃผ ์ด์ƒ) ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์„ญ์ทจํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์— ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ด๋งˆ ๋ถ€์œ„์˜ ๋‘๋‡Œ ์œ ๋„ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์˜์–‘ ์ธ์ž(BDNF) ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋˜์–ด ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  

L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ƒ๋ฆฌ ํ™œ์„ฑ ์„ฑ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์„ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ •์„œ ํ•จ์–‘๊ณผ ์ธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์™€ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ

L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ํ•ญ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•ŒํŒŒ ๋‡ŒํŒŒ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, GABA์˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ AMPA ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•ฝํ•œ ๊ธธํ•ญ์ œ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์—ญํ• ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฉ”์ปค๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์•ŒํŒŒ ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„(8-13 Hz)์˜ ๋‘๋‡Œ ์ „๊ธฐ ํ™œ๋™ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‡ŒํŒŒ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ(EEG)๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธก์ •ํ•œ ๋‘๋‡Œ ์ „๊ธฐ ํ™œ๋™์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ฐจ์˜ ๋ณต์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋น„๋ก€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ›„๋‘์™€ ์ •์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€์œ„์˜ ์•ŒํŒŒ ๋‡ŒํŒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์€ ๋ช…์ƒ ์‹œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์งํ•œ ๋‡ŒํŒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์–‘์ƒ์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ 200mg ์„ญ์ทจํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์•ŒํŒŒ ๋‡ŒํŒŒ์˜ ํ™œ์„ฑ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ 60๋ถ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ๋†’์€ ์‹คํ—˜ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์—์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰์ด ๋†’์€ ๋…น์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์Œ์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋œ ์ฅ์˜ ๋ถ€์‹  ๋น„๋Œ€์ฆ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐํ˜€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  

์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ํ•ด์†Œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…น์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์Œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํŠน์ • ์ฐจ ์ข…์— ํ•จ์œ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๊ณผ ์นดํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ์ƒ๋Œ€์  ํ•จ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฐ ์ฐจ์˜ ์ œ์กฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ •์‹  ์ž๊ทน ํšจ๊ณผ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ์ฆ์ง„๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ 50 - 200mg ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด 30๋ถ„์—์„œ 40๋ถ„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ง„์ • ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ์ด๋Š” ๋ณดํ†ต 8์‹œ๊ฐ„์—์„œ 10์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ฐ€๋Ÿ‰ ์ง€์†๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ•๋„์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์€ 200 mg์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ ๋ณต์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค๋ฉด 100mg์—์„œ 200mg ์”ฉ ๋ณต์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ 600mg์—์„œ 800mg๊นŒ์ง€์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋งค์ผ ๋ณต์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฒค์กฐ๋””์•„์ œํ•€(Benzodiazepines)์ด๋‚˜ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•ญ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ๋ชฉ์ ์˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์กธ์Œ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฐ˜์‚ฌ ์ž‘์šฉ์˜ ๋‘”ํ™” ๋˜๋Š” ์ง‘์ค‘๋ ฅ ์ €ํ•˜๋ฅผ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋‚ด์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ์˜์กด์„ฑ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๊ณผ ํ–ฅ์ •์‹ ์„ฑ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ฒœ์—ฐ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ๋ถ€์ž‘์šฉ์ด๋‚˜ ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ž‘์šฉ์€ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

์ด์— ๋น„ํ•ด, ์ƒํƒœ๋ถˆ์•ˆ(๊ฑฑ์ •, ๋‘๋ ค์›€, ๋˜๋Š” ๊ธด์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ • ์ƒํƒœ – ์—ญ์ž ์ฃผ)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•œ ์ง‘๋‹จ์ด ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ณ  ์นดํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ž์—ฌ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฃจ 200mg ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ๋ณต์šฉ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฒค์กฐ๋””์•„์ œํ•€ ์•Œํ”„๋ผ์กธ๋žŒ(Benzodiazepine alprazolam) ๋ณต์šฉ ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•œ ํ•œ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์ž„์ƒ ์‹œํ—˜์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์€ ์™„ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์ƒํƒœ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์€ ์™„ํ™”๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์™€๋Š” ๋Œ€์กฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‘ ๊ฑด์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋™์ผํ•œ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, ์‹ฌ๋ฐ• ์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ ๋ฐ ํ˜ˆ์•• ๊ฐ์†Œ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฃผ๊ด€์  ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์œ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜์ด ์—†๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ 4 ์ฃผ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์‹ค์‹œ๋œ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์‹œํ—˜(์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž ์ˆ˜ = 30๋ช…)์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ 200 mg์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜์˜€์„ ๋•Œ, ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ƒํƒœ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๋”์šฑ ์ข‹์•„์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 16๋ช…์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํ•œ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ 200 mg ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 1 mg ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ์•Œํ”„๋ผ์กธ๋žŒ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹คํ—˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋„ํ•œ ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ํ‰์˜จํ•œ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋น„๊ต, ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์‹คํ—˜ ์ „, ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ๋งŒ ์–ด๋Š ์ •๋„์˜ ๊ธด์žฅ ์™„ํ™”์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€์„ ๋ฟ, ์‹คํ—˜ ์‹œ์ž‘ ํ›„์˜ ํ‰์˜จ ์ƒํƒœ๋‚˜ ๊ธ‰์„ฑ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ๋Š” ์•Œํ”„๋ผ์กธ๋žŒ๊ณผ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ ์™„ํ™” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ์–ด ๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

10์ฃผ ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ํ•œ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ œ5๊ธฐ ๋ฒ”๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์žฅ์• (GeneralizedAnxiety Disorder, DSM-5) ์ง„๋‹จ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์„ฑ์ธ(์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž ์ˆ˜=46๋ช…)์ด ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฌด์ž‘์œ„์ ์œผ๋กœ (ํ•˜๋ฃจ 450 mg – 900 mg์˜) L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์ด๋‚˜ ์ด์— ์ƒ์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์ด๋”๋ผ๋„ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ํ™˜์ž์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ์™„ํ™”๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์˜ ์งˆ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Œ์ด ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, 18-40 ์„ธ์˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ธ(์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž ์ˆ˜ = 34๋ช…)์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ ์Œ๋ฃŒ๋‚˜ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•œ ํ›„, ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ ํƒœ์Šคํ‚น์„ ํ•˜๋„๋ก ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋•Œ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์€ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ 200mg๊ณผ ํฌ์ŠคํŒŒํ‹ฐ๋”œ ์„ธ๋ฆฐ1mg, ์นด๋ชจ๋งˆ์ผ 10mg๊ณผ ๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์„ธ๋ฆด ํฌ์Šคํฌ๋ฆด ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ 25mg์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ•จ์œ ํ•œ ์˜์–‘ ์Œ๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์„ญ์ทจํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ณ  1 ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ›„์— ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž์˜ ์ฃผ๊ด€์  ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„ญ์ทจ ํ›„ 3 ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ•˜์ž ํ˜ˆ์ฒญ ์ฝ”ํ‹ฐ์†” ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜๊ณผ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ

ํ•œ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ 100mg์„ 1์ผ 2ํšŒ ๋ณต์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ADHD ํ™˜์ž์˜ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์œ ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋ฏ€๋กœ L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ADHD์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋ณด์กฐ ์š”๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์กธ์Œ์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ทจ์นจ ์ „์— L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ 200mg์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜์—ฌ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ์ž ์„ ์ž˜ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. . 

L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์ด ์šฐ์šธ์ฆ๊ณผ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜ ์ฆ์ƒ์— ์œ ์ตํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ์šฐ์šธ ์žฅ์•  ์ง„๋‹จ์„ ๋ฐ›์€ ์„ฑ์ธ์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ 8์ฃผ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์‹ค์‹œ๋œ ์˜คํ”ˆ ๋ผ๋ฒจ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ(์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž ์ˆ˜ = 20๋ช…)์—์„œ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ํ•˜๋ฃจ 250 mg ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ํ™˜์ž์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ •์„œ์™€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜๋ฉด์˜ ์งˆ์ด ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ, L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋˜์–ด ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 8์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์ž„์ƒ ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” ์ •์‹  ๋ถ„์—ด์ฆ(Schizophrenia)๊ณผ ๋ถ„์—ด ์ •๋™ ์žฅ์• (Schizoaffective disorder) ํ™˜์ž๊ฐ€ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ์œ ์ตํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ฝ”ํ‹ฐ์†”๊ณผ ๋‘๋‡Œ ํŒŒ์ƒ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์˜์–‘ ์ธ์ž(Brain-derivedneurotrophic factor, BDNF)์˜ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์Šคํ…Œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ํ”„๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋„ค๋†€๋ก (Neurosteroid pregnenolone)๊ณผ ์•„๋ฏธ๋…ธ์‚ฐ์ธ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ๋ณ‘์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ๋ฌผ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์š”๋ฒ•๋„ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ์ฆ์ƒ์— ์œ ์ตํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 8 ์ฃผ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•œ ํ•œ ์ด์ค‘ ๋งน๊ฒ€, ์œ„์•ฝ ๋Œ€์กฐ ์‹œํ—˜์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•ญ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์— (์ตœ์„ ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ) ์ฐจ์„ ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ •์‹  ๋ถ„์—ด์ฆ ํ™˜์ž์™€ ๋ถ„์—ด ์ •๋„ ์žฅ์•  ํ™˜์ž(์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž ์ˆ˜ = 40๋ช…)๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ํ•ญ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜ ์น˜๋ฃŒ์•ฝ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ (ํ•˜๋ฃจ 400 mg์˜) L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ (ํ•˜๋ฃจ 50 mg์˜) ํ”„๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋„ค๋†€๋ก ์ด๋‚˜ ์œ„์•ฝ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ๊ด€์ฐฐํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ํ”„๋ ˆ๊ทธ๋„ค๋†€๋ก ๊ณผ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์€ ์œ„์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•œ ํ™˜์ž๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋‘”ํ•œ ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ๊ฐ, ์–ด๋ˆŒํ•œ ์–ธ์–ด ๊ตฌ์‚ฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์ •์‹  ์งˆํ™˜์˜ ์ฆ์ƒ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•จ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ์ฆ์ƒ ์—ญ์‹œ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์™„ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

๋‘๋‡Œ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜ ๋ฐ ๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘๊ณผ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ

๋™๋ฌผ ์‹คํ—˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์€ ๋‘๋‡Œ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์งˆํ™˜์„ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  (๋‡Œ์กธ์ค‘๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€) ๋‘๋‡Œ ํ˜ˆ๊ด€ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๊ณผ์„ฑ ๋Œ€๋‡Œ ํ—ˆํ˜ˆ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ํ›„์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” L- ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์˜ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์ด AMPA ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์ฒด์˜ ๊ธธํ•ญ์ œ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฅ์— (์ฒด์ค‘ 1kg ๋‹น 0.3-1mg์˜) L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ํˆฌ์•ฝํ•œ ํ›„, ๋Œ€๋‡Œ ํ—ˆํ˜ˆ(cerebral ischemia)์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋„๋ก ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋„ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, L-ํ…Œ์•„๋‹Œ์„ ํˆฌ์—ฌํ•œ ์ฅ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋ ฅ ์†์ƒ์˜ ์ •๋„์™€ ์‹ ๊ฒฝ ์„ธํฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฉธ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ํ˜„์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 

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