Posted by Adam on September 7, 2001, at 17:18:53
In reply to Re: Reductionism » Adam, posted by Cam W. on September 7, 2001, at 15:01:49
>Obviously, the monominergic theory of depression is not the answer.
Yeah, it's 1950s technology, basically. The sad thing is, for all the specificity of the new drugs, we haven't really progressed all that much from where we were back then, as far as efficacy. And nothing works as reliably as ECT, which is 1930s or earlier.
I think progress will be made when "depression" is recognized as the anachronism that it is, and the DSM-IV is a museum piece. The treatments will be as varied as the number of illnesses that have, up to the present, fallen into this wastebasket syndrome, "depression". Careful use of reductive science will point the way to differentiating these illnesses, and treating them efficiently.
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> Thanks for your perspectives. - Cam
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