Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades, Study Finds

Re:Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades,... by BurningFrog on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:10PM (#37135702)

You can also think of "the brain" as a collection of 10-20 separate organs, rather than one super complex one.

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Re:Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades,... by pixl97 on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:05PM (#37136429)

While true, the complexity of each organelle in the brain is still much higher than that of the typical organ elsewhere in the body. That and there is a high degree of connectivity and feedback between components where the API is completely and totally undocumented. It's not that you don't know what the known API calls do, you don't have any clue on how many API calls there even are. Accidently emulating one of these calls when attempting to trigger a different behavior can lead to wildly unexpected outcomes.

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Re:Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades,... by wheelerof4te on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @03:28PM (#37138232)

I just love the programmer's analogy here.

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Re:Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades,... by BurningFrog on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @07:25PM (#37140669)

The fact that these APIa are undocumented clearly disproves the existence of a (benevolent) God.

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Re:Schizophrenia Drugs May Have Been Off Target for Decades,... by Filligree on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:39PM (#37136924)

Those 10-20 organs are all individually super complex…

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