Posted by JohnX2 on March 26, 2002, at 20:52:48
In reply to Re: AD Treatment and the Biology of Depression, posted by OldSchool on March 26, 2002, at 19:27:05
> > http://www.medscape.com/pages/editorial/resourcecenters/public/depression/rc-depression2
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> This is a good article, but it worries me when I read it. I seriously wonder if mainstream psychiatry is really up to task when it comes to all this high tech research stuff. I mean, this stuff is really crossing strongly over into full blown Neurology, along with heavy tints of genetic research. That is great and is what I like to see. Finally we may someday conquor mental illness, due to what else...high technology. However, I feel that the average, run of the mill psychiatrist simply isnt up to this sort of thing, academically or in any other way.
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> I am beginning to believe that the technology now available, which will transform other branches of medicine in unbelievable ways, will not be applied to psychiatric illnesses as much. Due to the inherent deficiencies of psychiatry itself. Psychiatry is an inherently UNscientific branch of medicine and I seriously am concerned if psychiatry is truly up to handling the high tech scientific research of the brain.
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> What do you believe? I personally would feel more comfortable if psychiatry was merged into Neurology. As Neurology is a much more academically rigorous branch of medicine. Neurologists are all into brain scans and such and Im sure they will be into genetic engineering strongly as well. There is already much talk of stem cell research for parkinsons.
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> But seriously, is psychiatry as it presently exists really capable of carrying high tech mental illness research into the next fifty years or so? I personally am skeptical of this.
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> Old SchoolWhat kind of background do you think the well funded researches at the pharmaceutical companies have? Do you think these guys aren't well versed in neurology? Do these monolithic pharmaceutical companies not have R&D tools and technology that the public is not privy too? Yes! Capitalism. These people are competing for the real money. When the patents tumble, we may see innovation. In the mean time, forget it. The pharmaceutical companies need to milk their products to get back their R&D spending. Just my opinion. There isn't enough money in the public sector to do squat and the smart guys will go where the money is (just the way it works). Okay time to stop being cynical...
John
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