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Yes, the revolution in pharmacology (in which he played a role) gave doctors more drugs to use, allowing millions of people to reduce their symptoms. Yet the overall impact of this drug revolution on public health has been mixed, and decades of research on the drugs’ mechanisms — on serotonin, for example, the target of antidepressant drugs like Prozac — has taught scientists nothing about the causes of mental illness.
The same is true of most research using “animal models,” in which scientists try to create psychiatric problems in animals and study them.
“We’ve had this huge increase in the use of all interventions, a 250 percent increase in use of antipsychotics, without any change in the morbidity or mortality in people with mental disorders; it hasn’t budged,” Dr. Insel said. “If that were the case for cancer, there’d be an outcry for more research, money and new priorities.”
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Thank goodness! Many people have said this. Finally somebody at a place like nihm!
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Just a thought, but what if depression does not look the same in everyones brain? I mean I just hope we don't end up with people who have symptoms unable to get a diagnoses or needed help because their brain does not match up to a specific mold of what the brains of people with that mental disorder is supposed to look like.
So I think it is still important to focus on symptoms as well as the biological aspect...nothing wrong with researching what goes on in the brain to cause the symptoms...but then there is the fact that everyones brain is different and so maybe different physical causes in the brain can create the same disorder. I suppose more research in that area might prove just that. Also they should focus on biological, genetic and social/environmental factors.
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Hellion...
Absolutely I think there are different causes and the brain is so dependent on both nature and nurture to develop. Let's not forget epigenetics either.
My pa would like me to take a genetic related test. She is supposed to send me info so I can learn more about. I can't afford it right now but it sounds like something that would be really helpful. The test helps identify possible reasons for your disorder. It can identify which medications are more likely to help. It will also tell you if you have nutritional deficiencies. (I wonder if it will say anything about my concussion which I know plays a part.) The more she learns about it and has her clients use it the more impressed she is. One patient was recommended SAM-E as a treatment and this person is doing great. So there is gene and chemicals working together. And nutrition.
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It's been shown on brain scans doing meditation changes the brain.
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I have seen this in action although I prefer the word 'mindfulness'. I tried Neurofeedback which uses eeg's. It requires you to concentrate on a screen but mindfully because you actually try to control what's going on. For about a year before that I did mindfulness drawing on a nearly daily basis. I could absolutely feel the increased focus and calm over time. In fact I was able to take myself off an AD and adderal. The adderal was after the Neurofeedback and it simple came naturally. It was weird. Unfortunately I still have relapses and started back on both. I am about to discontinue the AD. I wonder if continuing the Neurofeedback would have help. Too expensive right now and far away
I'd like to compare the EEG at the end with an EEG today.
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