My last few posts regarding anticholinergic/antipyschotic/antidepressant drugs have been really eye opening, particularly the reaction to them. It’s been pretty baffling to me that people would so vociferously defend a psychiatric/medical system that so clearly has failed to achieve it’s own stated objectives. Why would someone accept 5 diagnoses as gospel while simultaneously acknowledging none …
Apologies for any typos, any feedback on where gaps need to be filled in would be much appreciated. Related Series: Are psychiatric drugs driving dementia rates? Efficacy and safety of psychiatric drugs Fertility and Birth Rates have been falling or stagnant since the 1970’s A ‘New’ Normal? An Updated Look at Fertility Trends Across the …
(Similar to everything else, WIP) How effective are our current treatments for depression? Divergent Outcomes in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Pharmacotherapy for Adult Depression Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and pharmacotherapy are, on average, equally and moderately efficacious acute-phase treatments for unipolar depression. For example, 50%−60% of patients receiving CBT or pharmacotherapy for depression respond, compared with 40% …
Wasting my damn time: Efficacy of psychiatric/psychological treatments Read More »
(Ugh, way too many things I need to update now) Echolalia occurs due to lack of hemispherical dominance in autistic brains. Individuals are aware of both the dorsal and ventral interpretation of the sound and bounce them back in an attempt to reconcile/integrate the “sound” (phonological) and “context” (lexical/semantic) of words/phrases. Autistic brains are able …
(Will be editing in place) Primary reason for sleep is re-establishing homeostasis in feed forward circuitry. Association/Integration are not integral reasons for sleep, dreams are unchecked ventral stream prediction (hallucinations). This looks like it’s phenotype dependent apparently. It’s not sleep so much as the ability to push delta waves, and most people can only push …
(Will be editing in place) Molecular mechanisms of autism: a possible role for Ca2+ signaling Increased Ca2+ signaling in NRXN1α+/− neurons derived from ASD induced pluripotent stem cells Genetic mutations in Ca2+ signaling alter dendrite morphology and social approach in juvenile mice Postnatal developmental changes in Ca2+ homeostasis in supraoptic magnocellular neurons Edit: Astrocyte-derived ATP: …
Big Calcium vs. Small Calcium Phenotypes of “Autism” Read More »
(Will be editing this in place). Astrocytes and Behavior Side-by-side comparison of the effects of Gq- and Gi-DREADD-mediated astrocyte modulation on intracellular calcium dynamics and synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal CA1 Recent insights on astrocyte mechanisms in CNS homeostasis, pathology, and repair Disruption of the astrocyte–neuron interaction is responsible for the impairments in learning and …
Shifting the paradigm: Astrocytes as the fundamental unit of behavioral function Read More »
Hello everyone, I’ve decided to redirect the energy for this into a blog and will be pursuing further explorations on that when I get it setup. Reddit has become a bit too much of a time sink for me, and I’ve had pretty poor discipline regulating it. To address this I’m going to be deleting …
Anticholinergic drugs are among the most widely prescribed class of drugs today, used in the treatment of conditions from motion sickness to psychosis. Of the two 200 most prescribed drugs, a significant portion of them are Anticholinergic. I have limited the following studies to within the last two years, honestly because it was too depressing …
Anticholinergic drugs cause dementia, lead to worse outcomes than those not taking them. Read More »
