Posted by sowhysosad on September 30, 2009, at 17:34:18
In reply to Re: Who Is Peter Breggin?, posted by SLS on September 30, 2009, at 6:36:23
I've seen some pretty convincing PET scans online which reveal brain abnormalities linked to specific disorders - for example, abnormal basal ganglia function in people with PTSD.
It's clear PET scans could be a useful tool in diagnosing mental illness and devising treatment strategies.
And whilst the actual mechanism by which current antidepressants heal the brain is still pretty fuzzy, there are heaps of evidence that they are effective in many people.
> Not only can brain imaging demonstrate pathology, they can even predict drug responses.
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> http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/709155?src=mp&spon=12&uac=41170BN
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> In 1997, I proposed (on another Internet forum - alt.support.depression) that various compounds, including therapeutic drugs, could be used as biological probes to determine choices of psychotropic drugs to treat mental illness based upon their effect on brain activity as detected through PET scans. I was laughed at then. Pretty cool, eh?
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> - Scott
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