A large-scale study of depression-related brain activity may also reveal whether a connection exists between the high rates of both psychotropic medication and suicide in the military, according to Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md).
A large-scale study of depression-related brain activity may also reveal whether a connection exists between the high rates of both psychotropic medication and suicide in the military, according to Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md).
“The study will use new technology from CNS Response Inc., which will allow military researchers to track electrical activity in the brains of 2,000 troops and civilians suffering from depression. They’ll compare the results with thousands of others in the firm’s online registries, allowing experts to develop new treatment approaches.”
Don’t count on this study showing anything about anything. It sounds like they’re going to get brain scans.
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An interesting article but’ at the risk of sounding petty, there’s a glaring typo in the text.
where it says:
“One of the big secrets of psychiatry is that we don’t know exactly how the drugs work,”
Should say:
“One of the big secrets of psychiatry is that we know exactly how the drugs don’t work,”
They just switched a couple of words around – could happen to anyone.
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Morias,
How funny!
How true!
Duane
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yeap, sometimes the only thing you can do is laugh at them. It’s not much but it’s better than nothing.
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Check out my reply at the original article.It links to other vital pieces of the puzzle. I just posted it .
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When a bill is introduced that would probably put another million or more children on psychotropic drugs, it is not MIA news worthy. When a senator expresses his uneducated opinion regarding an upcoming study, it is.
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— Jeffrey C, what is the very alarming bill you mention?
As for CNS Response Inc., I think the hype is way, way ahead of the science. They also follow a long line of “research” that refuses to consider any intrinsic problem with the drugs, and focuses on finding the “exceptional” patient who cannot handle them. A few years ago it was all about finding the “hidden bipolars” who were having problems on antidepressants — whether cycling into manic or violent behavior, or simply staying depressed. Now it’s about doing expensive brain scans, etc. to try and spot which antidepressant type each patient will respond to.
If military suicides are spiking in part due to psych drugs, CNS Response will not help us find it out. Instead they will push the idea that there is a “right drug” for each soldier and we just have to find it. Business Week compares it to a dating service:
“The CNS system works sort of like a dating service — only instead of pairing personalities, it matches electrical activity that’s recorded in the brain.
“If a number of people with similar brain waves do well on the same medicine, then that drug will probably work for the new patient as well, CNS’s Carpenter said in an interview. The Aliso Viejo, California-based company has a database of about 8,700 people that new patients can be compared with, he said. “
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http://napolitano.house.gov/legislative-work/mental-health-schools-act
That is what I was referring to. If it passes I am sure that the result will make Joseph Biederman go down in history as a small time player in getting more kids on psychotropic drugs.
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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr628
“To amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend projects relating
to children and violence to provide access to school-based comprehensive
mental health programs.”
It also appears that this isn’t the first time it’s been introduced, it appears to have been defeated in 2011… Yet there’s still a lot of people, like you and me, who had never heard of it before… Even MIA wont post it as news.
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School based comprehensive mental health programs= pill mills.
Expect to see a surge in kids with ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, ODD, and any new alphabet “disorders” the DSM madmen have invented to sell pills…
And the hand-wringing on the news: “Why are so many American children on psychiatric drugs?” I can see it now.
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Johanna, I agree. This is some company with vaporware that’s managed to pry a contract out of the US government.
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