Posted by Neal on March 28, 2009, at 0:15:01
In reply to Re: Depression and M/D Improved Treatments, posted by bleauberry on March 27, 2009, at 14:41:35
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The first med for depression was opium and it's derivatives. That was used from 5000BC to 1918, when it was made illegal; then it was shock until about ?late 40s early 50s; then all the meds that are discussed here.
I'm reading about some truly amazing things that are being done through biotech, and I can't help but think that there won't be some progress for depression. There's too much money to be made.
They have a brain-to-machine interface for quadraplegics that translates an electrical impulse from the brain to bypass a break in the spinal cord and operate a muscle in the extremeties. This is happening now, not in some la la future time.
I would say to anybody: Read up on the latest in biotech*, etc. Sure, depression's a tough nut to crack, the brain's a very complex organ, but they've said that about other things before, that've been done. If I'd have talked about people walking around with pacemakers in 1950, they would have laughed me off the stage.
*for instance, the podcast, "Futures in Biotech" is so fascinating that I have to wonder if it's science fiction or not, but it's legitimate and they're real scientists talking.
http://twit.tv/FIB
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