Posted by alexandra_k on November 30, 2014, at 17:59:19
In reply to Re: What If We're Wrong About Depression?Hugh/SLS » SLS, posted by brynb on November 30, 2014, at 10:54:51
I think people are trying, but they haven't been able to find a mechanism like that.
It was a happy day for psychiatry when it was discovered that a subset of psychotic patients had a bacterial infection - Syphilis. That a course of anti-biotics was an effective cure.
Or even that there was a relatively effective medication (lithium) for a subset of cases of mania.
Inflammation... Hormones... All the rage right now. Either those or quantum indeterminacies. If you don't understand x and you don't understand y then maybe the two are related? There might be some principle there... Something about the minimisation of mysteries...
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