Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way

Re:Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals t... by endisneigh on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:37PM (#35980153)

The point I was trying to make isn’t about happiness or sadness per se, rather they depression has mental analogs that presumably are improved after treatment.

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Re:Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals t... by carabiner on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:43PM (#35980255)

It doesn't need analogs. Depression is mental.

Legitimately what dialogue are you attempting to start?

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Re:Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals t... by endisneigh on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:31PM (#35980882)

Sure it does. The dialogue is around the usefulness of depression as a category and status to attribute to someone.

If someone wants to commit suicide what difference does it make if they’re depressed or not, for example.

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Re:Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals t... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:27PM (#35981464)

I think the more accurate way to conceptualise this is that treatment works by interfering with processes in the brain that cause depression, not that it cancels out the depression by adding enough euphoria/mania/happyness to compensate.

Antidepressants don't typically cause mania in healthy people, but they could paradoxically cause depression.

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Re:Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals t... by endisneigh on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:49PM (#35981696)

I was referring more to the article in the OP that “reverses bad signals”.

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