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What happened to the Serotonin Hypothesis?

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One short answer is "between 1995 and 2002." 2002) Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. They are used here for illustrative and educational purposes. So what is the answer to "When did the serotonin hypothesis of depression disappear?"

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

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A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I attended the University of Colorado and studied Aerospace Engineering, and most importantly at the time, I ski raced. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. 209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002.

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

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In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Before examining these other reasons, a look at two high-profile examples of this exuberance.

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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After making their competition illegal, the AMA next undertook an effort to improve medical techniques and education. presumably educated in the 1980s) told me of Osteopaths in the early 1900s getting much better results treating typhoid than the Medical Doctors who were still using calomel (mercury). By the early 1900s, most U.S.

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Peaceful Reflections on the Past from ‘One Who Got Away’

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Spend years educating a child till they nearly get a first in some subjects at Cambridge, and then when they later come to you in need of emotional care with trauma off the scale, label the person acute psychotic and mentally ill for life and prescribe pills that turn the person into a subhuman vegetable. It’s an interesting experiment.