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Re: the brain » SLS

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2006, at 20:41:42

In reply to Re: the brain » alexandra_k, posted by SLS on September 20, 2006, at 7:24:53

> > If you want to teach someone to cook you are better off showing them how than trying to manipulate their brain directly...

> ...Unless they aren't eating for lack of appetite or for kindled reinforcement of anorectic behavior.

People with anorexia don't have a lack of appetite they restrict their eating for other reasons.

- Rates of anorexia are highest where women have been most exposed to the western ideal of body weight. (Cross cultural prevalence)
- Rates of anorexia climb where cultures become more exposed to the western ideal of body weight (e.g., in Fiji, children of immigrants from Pakistan living in the UK)

> > And if you want to teach someone to manage anxiety / depression etc therapy does something that direct manipulation of their brain is unable to do at present.

> ...Unless each of these occur as the result of the defects in neural circuitry and intracellular machinery now demonstrated with the aid of modern technology.

But therapy and changes to society (environment) result in changes to the neural circuitry and intracellular machinery.

> Direct manipulation of the central nervous system is sometimes the only way in which to treat a particular mental illness; one that is a disorder of the brain.

I disagree (see my last remark).

> I think it helps to remain open to recognize the wide array of human conditions that can produce similar behavioral outcomes.

Indeed.

Hence inter-level interventions instead of a uni-level intervention.

Hence the biopsychosocial model instead of a biobiobio model.

 

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