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The history of psychiatry, like most medical fields, is wrought with gruesome experiments and extremely sad circumstances, usually portrayed in docudrama or fictive films that ultimately drew me away from the subject. Good to read on this history with a bit less sensation. I never knew the man who invented the lobotomy won a Nobel peace prize.

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@Analisa • 5 Years Ago

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The history of psychiatry, like most medical fields, is wrought with gruesome experiments and extremely sad circumstances, usually portrayed in docudrama or fictive films that ultimately drew me away from the subject. Good to read on this history with a bit less sensation. I never knew the man who invented the lobotomy won a Nobel peace prize.

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There are economic problems with psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. There are no incentives for new medical research and NIH has not had any new breakthroughs in many years. In addition, this population has a low percentage in terms of voting, so they get less funding for research.

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@ronscott • 5 Years Ago

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There are economic problems with psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. There are no incentives for new medical research and NIH has not had any new breakthroughs in many years. In addition, this population has a low percentage in terms of voting, so they get less funding for research.

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A great little journey through the taboos and developments in psychiatry. Interestingly you can still get surgery for some mental illnesses in the UK. It's called Neurosurgery for Mental Disorder where small parts of the brain are destroyed. Thankfully you need to give consent for it and its extremely rare. Other (Less invasive?) surgical alternatives are Deep Brain Stimulation and Vagal Nerve Stimulation which both basically conduct electricity to the brain by a inserted extracranial pacemaker. "Modern day techniques" or the "Quakery" of the future?

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A great little journey through the taboos and developments in psychiatry. Interestingly you can still get surgery for some mental illnesses in the UK. It's called Neurosurgery for Mental Disorder where small parts of the brain are destroyed. Thankfully you need to give consent for it and its extremely rare. Other (Less invasive?) surgical alternatives are Deep Brain Stimulation and Vagal Nerve Stimulation which both basically conduct electricity to the brain by a inserted extracranial pacemaker. "Modern day techniques" or the "Quakery" of the future?

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@Analisa • 5 Years Ago

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SHOCKING! I cannot understand any circumstance that would warrant that type of neurosurgery, but then again, thankfully Im not a neurosurgeon. Hopefully, there's some medical reason why that's still occurring? However, I am very interested in medical procedures that use electromagnetic waves but not in the same way as pacemakers work, some would consider quackery. It seems as much as science understands the physical brain, the mind remains a huge mystery.

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@Analisa • 5 Years Ago

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SHOCKING! I cannot understand any circumstance that would warrant that type of neurosurgery, but then again, thankfully Im not a neurosurgeon. Hopefully, there's some medical reason why that's still occurring? However, I am very interested in medical procedures that use electromagnetic waves but not in the same way as pacemakers work, some would consider quackery. It seems as much as science understands the physical brain, the mind remains a huge mystery.

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What are these other electro magnetic procedures you are aware of [@analisa](/user/profile/analisa) ?

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What are these other electro magnetic procedures you are aware of [@analisa](/user/profile/analisa) ?