Posted by Squiggles on September 29, 2006, at 14:10:08
In reply to Re: Check this out bipolars!! » Phillipa, posted by Squiggles on September 29, 2006, at 8:00:10
I just received a lengthy article
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v11/n3/full/4001793a.html
from M. Gitlin of the Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
on "treatment-resistant" bipolar disorder
and the advance of psychopharmacology and
other means of addressing the problem.It's a very scholarly article ( a tad too
scientific for my understanding ), but
obviously trying to cover all the bases
of this problem.I do have a question about this neologism
in Medicine "treatment-resistant" -- there
is magic in them words. Is it really resistance
to treatment that the patient is showing, which
in my understanding would be adverse reaction or
unpleasant, or lack of efficacy -- or is it
simply the wrong diagnosis? You gotta wonder
why antibiotics should work on some infections
for example, and not others; why some antidepressants should work on catatonic depression and not others, why lithium should work on some manic-depressives and not others.Squiggles
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