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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 15 Nov 2012, 3:23 am
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| Symptoms are measured indirectly, that doesn't mean they aren't measured. Regardless, there are many signs of depression that are behavioral and can be directly measured. Lets put it this way: mood and behavior can change, intellingence can not. What would happen if Einstein felt depressed and they... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 14 Nov 2012, 10:41 am
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| OK, let go of your anti-psychiatry agenda. They aren't always right, but psychiatrists are trying to help. The vast majority do not knowingly cause harm to patients. Science marches on and all that. Currently, the most common condition treated by neurosurgery is epilepsy, so I'll talk about a typic... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 13 Nov 2012, 10:10 pm
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| The main result of ECT is a measurable decrease in depressive symptoms. It has nothing to do with "normal," it has to do with making a miserable life tolerable. When a person's feedback system is broken, and they develop pathological neural pathways, destroying those pathways is not "negative." And... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012, 10:03 pm
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| There is no credible evidence that ECT causes any structural damage to the brain. The same is not true of a completed suicide or of a suicide attempt. So you are assuming if there are no structural differences, there is no change. If so, this logic implies that there is no improvements either. If t... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 12 Nov 2012, 5:08 am
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| There is no credible evidence that ECT causes any structural damage to the brain. The same is not true of a completed suicide or of a suicide attempt. So you are assuming if there are no structural differences, there is no change. If so, this logic implies that there is no improvements either. If t... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 11 Nov 2012, 5:39 am
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| Cingulotomies do not aim to cure OCD. The aim is to make the patient more responsive to the medications. Now lets think logically why would the patient become more responsive to medications. One explanation is that a certain part of the brain is less responsive than the rest of the brain. Thus, the... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 10 Nov 2012, 4:54 am
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| Well, Roman, if you have valid evidence to back up your claims, then you'd be better off presenting them in criminal court, rather than posting just the accusations on a social website. Speaking of "evidence" of crimes of psychiatry, the guilty present that evidence all on their own! When first psy... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 09 Nov 2012, 1:21 am
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| The alternative to psychosurgery is often death. 1. In a lot of cases it is the psychiatrist that thinks the patient is a threat to themselves which is not true. 2. The cingulotomy aims at curing OCD, which is not life threatening. 3. If the patient is in fact a threat to themselves, physical restr... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 6:51 am
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| Unlike lobotomies, which were performed by blindly jamming ice picks into the patients brain via the eye socket, and moving it around to destroy part or all of the frontal lobe, and which were often done without the consent or fully informed consent of the patient, a cingulotomy is a precision proc... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: A version of lobotomy still performed today |
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Posted: 06 Nov 2012, 2:41 am
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| I just read of a version of lobotomy that is still performed today, albeit very rarely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateral_cingulotomy I strongly oppose this treatment. Its purpose is to deliberately damage the brain so so-called side effect is sought for effect. For that exact reason I oppose sh... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you guys have "tantrum people" to spare? |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2012, 12:32 pm
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| You know while I throw tantrums a lot, there are a couple of specific versions of tantrums I simply can't throw because I don't have appropriate social connections to do so (mentioned below). But IF at some point down the line I have 1. Two or more good friends and/or 2. A significant other here ar... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Do you guys have "tantrum people" to spare? |
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Posted: 03 Nov 2012, 11:49 pm
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| You know while I throw tantrums a lot, there are a couple of specific versions of tantrums I simply can't throw because I don't have appropriate social connections to do so (mentioned below). But IF at some point down the line I have 1. Two or more good friends and/or 2. A significant other here are... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: A joke |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 1:41 pm
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| This is the first thing youve said in this long agonizing thread that actually makes any sense! I think that we are finnaly gettting somewhere! Lol! Okay...so In YOUR mind you think that NEUROTYPICALS THINK that YOUR THINKING is SO inflexable that YOU (or any odd person) wont even momentarily modif... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: A joke |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 1:05 pm
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| But the point of warning him is to get him to NOT to show up at the doorstep-its not to warm him- and then expect him to show up anyway. What you said is a possibility, but that is not the scenario portrayed in a joke. According to the joke story she assumes they are both on the same page that meet... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: A joke |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 12:37 pm
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| This is the first thing youve said in this long agonizing thread that actually makes any sense! I think that we are finnaly gettting somewhere! Lol! Okay...so In YOUR mind you think that NEUROTYPICALS THINK that YOUR THINKING is SO inflexable that YOU (or any odd person) wont even momentarily modif... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: A joke |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2012, 12:30 pm
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| Ok... she was recruited by Chris Hansen to catch bad guys. First: why would her goal be different from the goals of chris hansen? Two possibilities: a) She has a relative who is paedophile so she sees his struggles and she wants to help paedophiles. But she doesn't feel safe meeting them on her own... |
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