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Re: Can we really choose drugs based on mechanisms?

Posted by bulldog2 on May 22, 2008, at 9:39:24

In reply to Can we really choose drugs based on mechanisms?, posted by SLS on May 22, 2008, at 6:48:38

> Can we really choose drugs based on known mechanisms?
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> Are we really able to deduce our individual psychobiological abnormalities?
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> All comments welcome.
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> - Scott

I caught the last hour of a show last night about depression and treatment options. The vagus deep stimulation sounds promising. But one p-doc felt he had as much chance of curing depression (and it is important to get the type of depression correct) as another doc might have with heart disease or diabetes.It is important to get a correct diagnosis and there are also mri imaging techniques.
So the anwer is yes with a skilled p-doc along with proper mri imaging.The docs on the panel felt the mris are proof of depression as a biological illness. Also depression causes the body to react with a host of phsyical abnormalities.There is a greater disposition to many other illnesses which is further proof.So a skilled p-doc will have a sense of what to prescribe or what combo to prescribe.

 

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