Posted by blueboy on July 15, 2008, at 10:34:57
In reply to Re: Study highlights Dopamine's dichotomous role, posted by chiron on July 14, 2008, at 23:06:57
> Finally, some research (at least that I'm aware of) that doesn't generalize/simplify neurotransmitters. I'm sick of hearing "serotonin", and that low doses cause depression. That is only a small piece of the complicated puzzle. This also helps explain different reactions people have, and the changes with different doses.
Amen to that. I'm constantly amazed at how much psychiatrists, magazines, webpages, etc. -- experts and amateurs alike -- pretend that they actually understand what's going on with neurotransmitters.
It seems to me that psychiatry as a whole, starting with Freud, has always tended to attribute knowledge and abilities to itself that it does not possess. IMO this has traditionally been a problem with physicians in general, to a degree, but most pronounced in psychiatry (and some other branches of medicine, such as orthopedic surgery).
I think, in my lifetime, both psychiatrists and doctors in general have gotten better about this.
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