Posted by bleauberry on September 30, 2009, at 17:45:49
In reply to Re: Who Is Peter Breggin?, posted by SLS on September 30, 2009, at 6:36:23
> 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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> - ScottYeah Scott, that is indeed very cool. You shouldn't have been so deceptive in asking earlier "how do you know" when you knew all along....:-)
I can immediately see how we could also test the body via various drug trials to find out what is really going on. I won't mention the subject since people here scream at me out loud when I bring it up all the time. But one can probably fill in the blanks. Certain drugs are specific for certain things. The certain reaction gives a high confidence diagnosis of the unseen.
Kind of the same thing as challenging the brain with various drugs to see how it behaves on a scan. We can challenge the body with various drugs to see how it responds, on the topic of infectious disease instead of psychiatry.
But boy oh boy do I take some heat for even mentioning it. It does require a trained eye which is why my doctor uses that strategy all the time.
Always good talking with you Scott. Thank you for sharing.
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