Posted by linkadge on July 31, 2003, at 6:42:14
In reply to Re: Actually no, posted by SLS on July 31, 2003, at 5:50:06
I don't want to argue about this because it is
fruitless. This is my last post on this topic.The bottom line is this.
1. ECT is probably the least understood of all
treatments for psychiatric conditions.2. Did you even hear what I said about rTMS? I
agree with you that it is not as effective
as ECT at the time being. Do you not
understand the concept of 'being investigated'?
Do you not understand the consept of 'under
investigation'? If you've got it fixed in
your mind that nothing will ever be better
than ECT than we're going to get nowhere
will we. It still doesn't work for some. We've
got room to improve.3. I am not trying to proove anything, all I am
saying is that we don't understand how they
work. The seizure theory us just 'proposed
mechanism'. Just like SSRI's. For years we
thought that raising serotonin *was* the key to
the therapudic effect of AD's. Now we have
a drug like Tianeptine that does the exact
opposite. It lowers serotonin levels. Yet, it
is as clinicaly effective as Prozac. You can
yell at me all you want about Serotonin this
or serotonin that but it's still just theory.
So what happened to all the theory that we
thought we had?? It's still there, because it
was just theory to begin with.6. You seemed to have completely changed the
humble tone of pschiatric research. The
tone that says 'we don't understand' but 'we
can accept that'.7. I'm not doubting you that there is good
research to support your claim. But to say that
this theory is factual 100%, is a grave,
detremental and dogmatic claim. We would get
nowhere if we boasted our theories as fact and
then closed our eyes to all other incoming
information.Linkadge
poster:linkadge
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