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It's all hand waving anyway.

Posted by madeline on November 26, 2006, at 7:08:14

In reply to SSRIs and Dopamine, whats the verdict?, posted by Morhoun on November 24, 2006, at 10:19:29

Hand waving occurs when scientists have an experimental finding, yet have NO IDEA how to explain it so they basically start speculating as to the cause.

It not a literal term. If it were, most research would cease as most scientists would spend their days flailing about wildly in their laboratories.

Hand waving is rampant in psychopharmacology. Very few people are actually honest enough to say "hey guys, we are clueless here, but give us a few decades and we will come back with an answer".

At present there are too many variables to say what drug does what in a particular brain on a given day.

I'm sorry, but that's pretty close to the truth -at least the way I see it.


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