However, when it comes to psychotropic drugs, the doctors and pharmacologists still don't know exactly what they are doing. I would compare the modern practice of psychiatry to the practice of medicine as it existed before Ignatz Semmelweiss developed the germ theory of disease. The chemical balances of the human brain are still too complex and unknown. They are getting closer to understanding it, but are not there yet to the point where I'd like to take any of their medications.
It’s absolutely true that experimenting with individuals’ reactions is key antidepressant therapy. Cognitive therapy is more difficult to get access to, and is a crucial element. And I’d even be open to the notion that we shouldn’t experiment on brains in such a state of flux as young peoples’ are. It’s just a shame that the debate on such matter is dominated by people who don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
Actually, anesthetics has rather profound psychotrophic effects.
I thought Koch established the germ theory of disease?
I agree, the chemistry of the brain is complex, then again, the chemistry of most organs is amazingly complex—take the liver for example. An yet, everything that comes out of the GI tract goes through the liver for usually, some type of processing. For the record, I have never taken any of the medications for the brain. However, one must consider the profound CNS effects of ethanol and look at the havoc it wreaks on lives everywhere.
Yep, I've been saying that for years. The "Final Frontier" is not space. Neurology is, in fact, the Final Frontier.