Posted by SLS on January 18, 2008, at 8:06:32
In reply to Re: How about calling it the Pharmacology board » SLS, posted by seldomseen on January 17, 2008, at 11:38:42
Hi.
> Your take on pharmacology is interesting.
I don't have a take on pharmacology except that it would be included in the study of neuroscience.
> It is quite a comprehensive field that does, in fact, take into account the fundamental anatomy and physiology of the body's various systems and the effect on, or manipulation of those systems by drugs.
"A brain circuit has been discovererd that links the thalamus to the nucleus accumbens"
This is an example of pure neuroscience that does not state anything related to pharmacology except that it might later help understand the workings of the brain. Understanding this brain circuit routing might help to understand illness and how it may be treated, whether it be pharmacologically, or through rTMS, DBS, ECT, or VNS. In other words, the progress of pure neuroscience has indeed already produced non-pharmacological treatments.
> A discussion of the "the routing of impulses efferent from the hypothalamus on to the reticular formation" would be quite a home on a pharmacology board,As I have already demonstrated, the focus of study appearing in this quote indicates nothing regarding pharmacology, even though the new knowledge and understandings evolving from the study of pure neuroscience can produce new insights into the pharmacology of drugs.
> a pharmacology class or in the practice of clinical pharmacology....
> You'll just have to trust me on this one ;)
I'm sorry, but we don't yet know each other. I have no reason to trust you yet. Right now, I am more trusting in my own deliberation and conclusion.
> But bottom line, I personally don't care what the board is called.
Then why lobby for a name change to "Pharmacology"? I consider the name and categorization of this new posting board to be extremely important. I am still partial to my proposal of renaming it to "Neuroscience".
I can be quite stubborn. I'm working on it, though.
- Scott
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