Posted by SLS on January 2, 2016, at 7:21:22
In reply to Neurogenesis, posted by stan_the_man70 on January 2, 2016, at 0:19:52
> Exercise
> Diet
> Meditation
> Lifestyle - Sleep - sunlight - Sexual - Calorie - environment
> Psychoactive - SSRI - Psilocybin - Ibogaine - Ketamine - Cannabis - Noopept - Ayahuasca - MelatoninLithium, too.
I've seen this article before. I'm glad the link between many of these things and BDNF has been detailed.
I have my doubts, though, that very many cases of the more severe cases of MDD and BD respond to most of these things. I wish they did. I would like to see some evidence-based support. The key to obtaining meaningful data regarding these two mood disorders lies in strict diagnostic inclusion criteria, which I assert was discarded 20 years ago. Depression? Anxiety? What do these terms mean phenomenologically as it relates to nosology or the correct identification of the illness to be treated? Not much. The problem is that many studies are giving drugs to people who don't have the illness being studied. This helps to explain an inappropriately elevated statistic for placebo response. The more severe the cases of depression chosen for study, the lower the placebo rate. The statistical separation in these studies makes drugs look a lot better. Yes, these drugs suck for me and most other people looking for help on Psycho-Babble. That's why they are here. The population of people posting on Psycho-Babble does not reflect the cumulative population of people with MDD.
End of rant.
Sorry.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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