Torstar News Service
Originally published on October 19, 2013
Here is an excerpt:
Now, neuroscience would attribute such things as depression and psychosis to “chemical imbalances” — specifically to disruptions in the neurotransmitters that allow the brain’s billions upon billions of grey matter cells to speak to one another.
And so mental illnesses became normalized and destigmatized.
And so their treatments, to a huge extent, came off of the couch, out of the asylums and onto pharmacy counters.
And so a $70-billion drug market grew to feed tens of millions worldwide with daily doses of magic bullets — pills that could bring their brain chemistry back into balance.
Trouble is, in the minds of many neuroscientists today, that chemical imbalance theory has turned out to be a myth, with little more scientific or medicinal substance than poetry or song.
The entire article is here.
Thanks to Ned Jenny for this information.
