Posted by linkadge on September 16, 2006, at 20:30:27
In reply to Re: the brain » Squiggles, posted by yxibow on September 16, 2006, at 19:35:38
Many of the hypothesis that depression is *due* to a biochemical imbalance have been speculative. Antidepressants were discovered to have effect before their actions on monoamines were realized. The existence of medications that provide symptomatic relief of certain sympoms is not evidence of the origins of the underlying issues.
Despite how the knowledge of what antidepressants do, there exists no conclusive evidence that such dysfunctions are responsable for the illnes.
Like yxibow, I am not saying that such abnormalities don't exist, I am just saying there doesn't exist much solid proof of such theories.
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