Posted by Chairman_MAO on November 25, 2005, at 13:02:06
In reply to Re: Experiences on Risperdal... Im afraid of TD » Tepiaca, posted by alexandra_k on November 23, 2005, at 15:31:56
The notion that TD is somehow a result of schizophrenia is madness in my opinion; in the 1950s or early 60s (I forget which) some investigators announced they'd found the biological basis of schizoprenia. There was a lot to do about this announcement. There was a "spot" found on a specific area of the brain post-mortem in schizophrenics that was not there in controls. Excitement faded when it was found that this abberation--the "spot"--" was caused by the administration of chlorpromazine and had nothing to do with schizophrenia.
How can this person say such things in light of what I have just described? I would like to see references to these cases of TD in people who've never taken an antipsychotic. I am open to new ideas, but am very--and understandably--extremely skeptical here, considering that we do not understand the biological basis for any mental illness. Sure, there are tons of potentially meaningful correlates (that is, Tom Cruise is not Tom Szasz!), but we have no concept of what an actual "biological model" of mental illness would even look like.
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