Posted by Chairman_MAO on June 3, 2004, at 15:07:55
In reply to There is something wrong with these children, posted by linkadge on June 3, 2004, at 14:28:10
There is a lot more to behavior and consciousness than simple pictures of glucose utilization in the brain, and no one can prove that this is a biological pathology yet. I am not anti-medication, nor do I think people with attentional problems are "making them up"; I am one of them. I am simply in favor of logic and good science, and there is no science which can show me that ADD is _CAUSED_ by a biological defect. There may be a biological defect, or perhaps some people's brains just work differently. Who is to say which SPECT scan pattern is "normal"? What's to keep the government from doing a SPECT scan on you and imprisoning you for having patterns indicative of certain political views? I'm not being paranoid, research is already being done to make this possible: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuromarketing_nyt_apr20_04.html .
In the 1950s, biological psychiatrists got all excited because a lesion, dot, or something like that in a certain area of the brains of schizophrenics. This was the biological defect they'd been looking for! The excitement died down when investigators discovered it was the administration of Thorazine that created the lesion/dot.
Moral of the story is that scientific discoveries are exciting, but scientific proof is the goal of science.
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