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"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
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http://gizmodo.com/brain/
"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
I probably would if a part of my brain actually atrophied.
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What do you grow a tumor so hospitals and doctors can get rich operating on you?
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No. I would try medical marijuana first and see if that doesn't help.
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What do you grow a tumor so hospitals and doctors can get rich operating on you?
Que?
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Isn't is clearly obvious ACF would not.
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Gee, I think I recall seeing an entire movie based on this sort of idea.
Oh, and I didn't read anything except the title, so I have no idea what you said in your post.
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If I suffered from severe depression and nothing so far had worked for me, I would probably try it. I would probably volunteer for the clinical trials/tests, in fact.
When it's that bad for someone, you get people who are willing to try a lot of different stuff, just hoping it'll help.
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_sooz_ posted:
http://gizmodo.com/brain/
"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
Think about it this way too. You have some mental issues that are taking quite a toll on your life in certain ways. All drugs have side effects. Sometimes the side effect is even death, and that's with meds that have been on the market for a long time, never mind newer drugs. Would you really want to wait 5-10 years to try something that could possibly cure you, or at the very least improve your situation immensely? I think I would take the risk.
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Gaevren posted:
_sooz_ posted:
http://gizmodo.com/brain/
"It's an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company Neuralstem are hoping to address with their experimental oral drug. Most antidepressants work on brain chemistry, tweaking levels of neurotransmitters including serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. This is the first drug that aims to re-grow patients' atrophied brains."
With anything that messes with my brain or my genes, i would want to see at LEAST 5-10 year long-term results before even going near something like this. It's one thing to take a new anti-depressant or something, the worst you get there is some bad side effects, but something like this just plain sounds dodgy.
So, would you do it?
Think about it this way too. You have some mental issues that are taking quite a toll on your life in certain ways. All drugs have side effects. Sometimes the side effect is even death, and that's with meds that have been on the market for a long time, never mind newer drugs. Would you really want to wait 5-10 years to try something that could possibly cure you, or at the very least improve your situation immensely? I think I would take the risk.
I'd still rather take my chances with my drug regimen that (mostly) works than try something that messes so dramatically with my head. Maybe if i was completely treatment resistant (including ECT) and absolutely NOTHING worked, then maybe it would be a different situation, but as it currently stands i take drugs that work and im not willing to risk something terrible happening on the new drug.
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Well I am fairly risk-averse in some ways, but I think I would be willing to give it a shot. Of course that's easy for me to say because I'm not in a situation to even have to decide, so who knows- I could be completely talking out of my butt on the issue.
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winga posted:
I'll be the first zombie in the zombie apocalypse.
Too late
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depression messes with your brain and your genes. this drug might, the drugs you're on now probably do too.
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Well I am fairly risk-averse in some ways, but I think I would be willing to give it a shot. Of course that's easy for me to say because I'm not in a situation to even have to decide, so who knows- I could be completely talking out of my butt on the issue.
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I'd love to see the list of side-effects from that drug
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I'd love to see the list of side-effects from that drug
Yeah, thats what bothers me. If a new anti-depressant gives you side effects you can just stop taking it and 90% of the time you will have no lasting effects, but something like that just seems so... irreversible. And if something goes wrong, you're screwed.
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any drug that messes with cell proliferation or cell cycle control makes me nervous. all i can think of is... tumor.
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any drug that messes with cell proliferation or cell cycle control makes me nervous. all i can think of is... tumor.
this this this, it almost always backfires in the end
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I'd want to see way more than 5-10 years of test results.
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depends, if my brain grows too much it'll get squished inside my skull, which I hear is bad for it.
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So Tumor Causing medication.Awesome fix.Kill the depressed people so they don't need to worry about it.
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a large percentage of men have already done this,
the drug is called Viagra.
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a large percentage of men have already done this, the drug is called Viagra.
It makes the little brain grow...
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I don't think I would take it without some really remarkable long-term success stories and a demonstrated lack of side effects.
If it was shown to be solid un-reproachable science, sure I would try it if I had that problem to treat.
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-Mithan- posted:
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a large percentage of men have already done this, the drug is called Viagra.
It makes the little brain grow...
speak for your self that's the biggest brain son =)
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