Posted by chujoe on May 10, 2010, at 8:40:17
In reply to Re: Do AD's permanently impair your memory?, posted by CaffeinePoet on May 5, 2010, at 11:02:19
My memory seems better on AD meds. My anxiety / depression make my memory terrible, but when I take medication my memory improves. Long term, who knows? It seems fashionable these days to speculate about the terrible effects of "chemicals" on the brain, which is a soup of chemicals in any case. Maybe those "chemicals" allow the brain to repair itself, to create new neural pathways, to learn how to function more adaptively. My speculation is at least as plausible as the recent wave of anti-psych drug propaganda. I recommend this Salon article, not because of its content, which in my opinion is wrong, but because of the letters to the editor that follow: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/04/27/interview_whitaker_anatomy_of_an_epidemic/index.html
(If this is the same article someone linked to below, sorry -- the letters are really worth reading.
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