Posted by mindevolution on January 30, 2007, at 18:05:35
In reply to Re: Dopaminergic/schizophrenia link discovered?, posted by linkadge on January 30, 2007, at 16:16:04
> Its all just circular logic too.
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> The first APs were discovered by accident. Sombody noted that such drugs had a calming action in their patients.
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> They later threw together the hypothesis that effective drugs were the ones that blocked d2 receptors.
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> So now everybody is on the bandwagon to look for disturbances in the d2 receptors.
>yes, the drugs seemed to reduce the symtpoms of mental illness, but so to did frontal lobotomies; do you think it would be too outrageous to suggest a "too many brain cells theory could be repromoted as the cause of schizophrenia"?
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/99968.html
> Just like when SSRI's came out, everybody was looking for disturbances in the serotonin transporter.
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> A hell of a lot of money and time were used to come up with basically no association at all.
>problem is they stick to a suedo scientific explanation, for decades after, even though there is no evidence for it.
what would a truthful doctor say to a patient:
"we have absolutely no idea what causes your illness, but trust me these pills that work on serotonin are safe for you to take indefinitely because the company that makes them says so on the basis of 12 week trials that they conduct rather than being independently carried out! oh, and despit the prefix "anti" they can't cure the illness nor prevent it from occurring, and there are millions of lawsuits regarding the serious side effects of the medications including suicide" lol
> Doctors want one magic bullit, so that they can say, here, take this pill it will correct such and such problems.
and to just "trust them" about it.
me
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