Posted by abid ade on December 25, 2002, at 16:17:35
In reply to Re: Psychiatry vs. Neurology and a daunting question.., posted by karanan on November 2, 2002, at 21:03:18
reading these posts it is pretty clear the imbecility of some of the authors, especially the idiot who spoke about 7-Eleven. What a retard. Now, a student goes to medical school and graduates with a degree, which can then be applied to specialty study in any of the medical specialties, depending on choice and availability. With my MD degree, I could apply for specialty training in surgery, ob/gyn, medicine, neurology, pathology, psychiatry, etc. Now, Sir, its not at all clear what your understanding of the brain is, but it is unique in that it is the organ of the mind, by which I mean, the organ of thought. It is also the organ of action- movement, respiration, purposive activity all emanate initially from brain signals transported by nerves to organ, you idiot. Neurologists treat, broadly, brain disorders that impinge on function:stroke, epilepsy, etc. They also treat disorders for which there is no diagnostic test, such as headache and back pain. Psychiatrists treat disorders of, broadly, mind and thought.Schizophrenia is one example. Now, there is a recognition that these disorders are organic in nature; organic in the sense that brain dysfunction is at the root of these disorders. But you must realise that the brain is a perceptual organ that displays plasticity in response to environmental stimuli (learning) and therefore an organic etiology does not preclude an environmental insult. Psychiatrists are MDs. They earned degrees from medical school. The nuances and intricacies of organic neurology are not Greek to them. They deal increasingly with somatic treatments and not psychobabble, incidentally the work of Freud, a neurologist. They are undertaking one of the great journeys in man's history: attempting to unravel the workings of mind and memory, the very lack of knowledge about which makes psychobabble possible. A psychiatrist won the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology in 2000. Psychiatrists have no concerns about the increasingly biological basis of psychiatry:welcome it is, as it establishes psychiatry firmly as a science.
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