Paul and Co, Correlation, causation etc, etc., these are subtle concepts and is not needed when one knows the truth. Why, just read the first paragraph from the Deutsch Presse-Agentur (btw, you forgot yadda-yadda after mentioning Wikipedia) article:
|TAIPEI (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Taiwan doctors have |found that ***depression can cause brain damage***, so it is |necessary for patients to take medication to repair the damage |and cure their depression. See, Depression causes brain damage! Would the largest press agency in German LIES to you?!? What difference does it make if one can interpret the result as brain damage causes depression? Or even that both are due to some third variable(s). That's not what the Largest German Press Agency said! If it's good enough for the Germans, well, nuff said! I mean, SHEESSSHH!!, you're implying that one can't read and believe what finds in the daily newspaper! What kind of world would we be living in if we couldn't believe the mass media?!? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] P.S. Insert ;-) where appropriate. On Mon, 09 May 2011 16:48:03 -0700, Paul Brandon wrote: >Mike-- > >From your link it's not clear that they have demonstrated that damage to the >anterior cingulate cortex CAUSES depression; just that changes in it are >correlated with improvement while taking antidepressants. A subtle >difference, but a real one. >And Deutsche Presse-Agentur is (according to Wikipedia) the largest press >agency in Germany. > >Paul Brandon >Emeritus Professor of Psychology >Minnesota State University, Mankato On May 9, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Mike Palij wrote: > Breaking News: researchers in Taiwan have demonstrated to what > appears to be a first approximation the depression may actually be > a brain disease, specifically the gray matter of the anterior cingulate > which appears to be reduced in people with depression. Don't > take my word for it, consider this news story from what appears > to be a German news agency on the Aetna Intellihealth website > (my my, so many different counties in the same device!); see: > http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC267/24479/24524/1400000.html?d=dmtICNNews > > I wonder if this means that Aetna health insurance will now treat > depression as a physical ("real") illness instead of as a mental > ("unreal") illness, that is, provide coverage for services and > treatment comparable to other physical/real illnesses? > > I won't hold my breath waiting to get an answer to that question. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > P.S. I guess all those biological psychiatrists who thought that > they established depression as a brain/neurochemical disorder > with decades of research must be pretty bummed about having > their research ignored in this news story. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=10477 or send a blank email to leave-10477-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
