{"id":112585,"date":"2024-10-10T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112585"},"modified":"2024-10-10T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:28:58","slug":"why-is-it-hard-to-make-better-antidepressants-and-other-psychiatric-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112585","title":{"rendered":"Why is it hard to make better antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Tomorrow is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-mental-health-day\">World Mental Health Day<\/a>, and in many ways, it seems like the world has made great strides in mental health care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">In 2023 alone, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1331736\/mental-illness-research-funding-united-states-by-nih\/#:~:text=In%20fiscal%20year%202023%2C%20research,for%20FYs%202024%20and%202025.\">poured $1.25 billion<\/a> into research studying how mental illness manifests in the brain. People are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/16\/health\/adolescents-drugs-polypharmacy.html\">prescribed more psychiatric drugs<\/a> now than ever, while talking openly about depression, anxiety, and ADHD isn\u2019t just becoming less stigmatized \u2014 online at least, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/we-need-to-stop-making-mental-illness-look-cool-on-social-media\/\">it\u2019s almost cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Despite having more access to medication in the US than ever, over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/more-than-50000-americans-died-by-suicide-in-2023-more-than-any-year-on-record\/NBCN161285832#:~:text=Live-,More%20than%2050%2C000%20Americans%20died%20by%20suicide%20in%202023,than%20any%20year%20on%20record&amp;text=The%20U.S.%20surgeon%20general%20calls,and%20how%20to%20solve%20it.\">50,000 Americans died by suicide last year<\/a> \u2014 the highest number ever recorded. The US Surgeon General describes mental health as \u201cthe defining public health crisis of our time,\u201d but we\u2019re barely any closer to understanding the neuroscience of mental health than we were 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _80slsf2 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--highlight _1agbrixk _1lbxzst0\">\n<div class=\"_1lbxzst3\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0 _1lbxzst6\">Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/pages\/future-perfect-newsletter-signup\">here<\/a> to explore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Despite the popular framing of mental illnesses as being fundamentally caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatrictimes.com\/view\/psychiatrys-new-brain-mind-and-legend-chemical-imbalance\">electrochemical imbalances<\/a> in the brain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2012\/01\/psychiatrys-grand-confession\/\">a pile of evidence decades in the making suggests the truth is much more complicated<\/a>. It\u2019s the biggest open secret in neuroscience \u2014 psychiatric medications often don\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">If drugs that alter chemical signaling in the brain are capable of silencing auditory hallucinations and suicidal thoughts, then brain chemistry must somehow explain mental illness, at least in part. But while medications like antidepressants and antipsychotics make many people feel a lot better, they make just as many \u2014 or more \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-big-idea\/2018\/2\/25\/16997572\/causes-depression-pills-prozac-social-environmental-connections-hari\">feel the same or even worse<\/a>. (Prescribing the right meds for the right condition is mostly a guess, and the wrong match can accidentally shoot someone into a manic episode, for example.) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The brain is one of the most complex machines in the universe, made up of 86 billion cells connected by<a href=\"https:\/\/12ft.io\/proxy\"> 100 trillion synapses<\/a>. To give you a sense of just how complicated that is, it took over four years for neuroscientists to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03190-y\">build a map of a single fruit fly\u2019s brain<\/a>, which only contains about 0.00003% of the neurons in a human brain \u2014 and as much of a scientific achievement as that was, it doesn\u2019t even come close to fully explaining a fly\u2019s behavior. Try scaling that project up by several orders of magnitude, and the prospect of fully understanding human brain chemistry looks downright impossible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">It could be that neuroscience simply hasn\u2019t had enough time to develop truly effective mental health therapies for most conditions. It\u2019s a relatively young field, and scientists have only been able to get a good look at living brain activity for a few decades. The breakthrough psychiatry needs could be right around the corner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">But it\u2019s also possible that some of the best mental health care lies outside Western psychiatry altogether.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Maybe two things can be true at once.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _80slsf1 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p><h2 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>Psychiatrists no longer think chemical imbalances cause mental illness. Why do we? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">For thousands of years, mental illness could only be explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/bcmj.org\/mds-be\/historical-perspectives-theories-diagnosis-and-treatment-mental-illness\">supernatural forces or moral deviance<\/a>. In Enlightenment-era Europe and its colonized territories, people with psychiatric disorders were largely <a href=\"https:\/\/ehne.fr\/en\/encyclopedia\/themes\/political-europe\/control-and-discipline\/psychiatric-institutions-in-europe-nineteenth-and-twentieth-century\">confined to asylums<\/a> \u2014 later rebranded as \u201cpsychiatric hospitals\u201d \u2014 up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/asylums\/special\/excerpt.html\">until the 1950s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">In the early 20th century, Sigmund Freud and his peers popularized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/therapy-types\/psychoanalytic-therapy\">psychotherapy<\/a>, which helped (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/about\/policy\/resolution-psychotherapy\">and continues to help<\/a>) people navigate disorders like depression and anxiety. But physicians at asylums were initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/monitor\/2012\/03\/asylums#:~:text=Psychotherapy%20emerges,lay%20behind%20mental%20health%20problems.\">hesitant to adopt it<\/a>, preferring a \u201csomatic\u201d approach to mental health care that involved stimulating the body and the nervous system to alter the mind. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Leading doctors once believed that disorders like schizophrenia were caused by an <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/jonmd\/citation\/1942\/01000\/Pharmacologic_Aspects_of_Shock_Therapy.3.aspx\">underactive \u201cvegetative\u201d nervous system<\/a>, an old term for the parts of the brain that control basic life-sustaining functions like digestion and breathing. Early psychiatric treatments were designed to send a big enough shock to the brain \u2014 whether with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0165032700003670?via%3Dihub\">electricity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3670443\/\">an intentional malaria infection<\/a>, or<a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/ajp.89.1.143\"> coma-inducing drugs<\/a> \u2014 to kickstart these supposedly underactive processes. Psychiatrists who invented malaria treatment \u2014 using the malaria virus to induce a high fever, hopefully killing neurosyphilis-causing bacteria \u2014 and the prefrontal lobotomy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3670443\/\">both won the Nobel Prize in Medicine<\/a> while asylums were still the norm in Europe. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Over time, however, physicians began to acknowledge that their somatic treatments weren\u2019t working very well. That, combined with the observation that mentally ill brains didn\u2019t seem to have anything visibly wrong with them when autopsied, began to drive physical treatments out of fashion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Everything changed in 1952, when Parisian surgeon Henri Laborit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/aso\/databank\/entries\/dh52dr.html\">accidentally discovered that chlorpromazine<\/a>, an antihistamine he used to make anesthesia less dangerous for his patients, was also a powerful antipsychotic. When chlorpromazine entered the market in 1954, it <a href=\"https:\/\/psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.pn.2021.1.7\">changed psychiatry<\/a> like the <a href=\"https:\/\/diabetes.org\/blog\/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin\">discovery of insulin<\/a> changed diabetes. Suddenly, people who had been chronically restrained in mental hospitals could have calm conversations with their psychiatrists. Within a year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/asylums\/special\/excerpt.html\">public psychiatric hospitals in the US began closing<\/a> as policymakers hoped that new drugs would render institutionalization obsolete. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">For years, no one knew how drugs like chlorpromazine worked, only that they did, albeit with unpleasant <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/drugs\/18811-chlorpromazine-tablets\">side effects<\/a> like drowsiness, weight gain, and uncontrollable muscle spasms. Neuroscientists later figured out that antipsychotics like chlorpromazine bind to a certain type of dopamine receptor in the brain, flagging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/24159087\/what-is-dopamine-hacking-fasting-does-it-work-science\">the neurochemical dopamine<\/a> \u2014 specifically, having too much of it \u2014 as the biological root of schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The idea that a chemical imbalance could change someone\u2019s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors quickly spread throughout psychiatry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/depression\/in-depth\/ssris\/art-20044825\">Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors<\/a> (SSRIs) like Prozac, widely used antidepressants <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19442174\/#:~:text=The%20clinical%20introduction%20of%20fluoxetine,for%20new%20families%20of%20antidepressants.\">introduced in the 1980s<\/a>, block neurons from reabsorbing leftover serotonin after a chemical signal is sent. Theoretically, if a lack of serotonin contributes to depression, keeping more serotonin molecules available should make people happier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK361016\/\">half of people who take SSRIs<\/a> feel better after a couple of months. However, antidepressant researcher Alan Frazer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2012\/01\/23\/145525853\/when-it-comes-to-depression-serotonin-isnt-the-whole-story\/\">told NPR<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any convincing body of data that anybody has ever found that depression is associated to a significant extent with a loss of serotonin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Pinning schizophrenia simply on dopamine is similarly oversimplified and old-fashioned. Today, researchers believe that many neurotransmitters \u2014 on top of other genetic, social, and environmental factors \u2014 affect the likelihood that someone experiences mental illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Even though dopamine- and serotonin-related self-help videos keep making the rounds on TikTok, neuroscientists and psychiatrists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatrictimes.com\/view\/debunking-two-chemical-imbalance-myths-again\">have been vocally skeptical<\/a> of the \u201cchemical imbalance\u201d trope for decades. Electrochemical interactions, to the extent that scientists are capable of understanding them, can\u2019t fully explain \u2014 or more importantly, treat \u2014 mental illness. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--block-placement _80slsf1 _80slsf0 duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p><h2 class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup\"><strong>The future of mental health doesn\u2019t belong only to neuroscience<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Thinking of mental illness as something that medication can solve provides people \u201ca way to establish their suffering as both tangible and unfeigned, and it offers a simple account and positive prognosis for their struggles,\u201d sociology professor <a href=\"https:\/\/iasculture.org\/scholars\/profiles\/davis\">Joseph Davis<\/a> wrote for <a href=\"https:\/\/psyche.co\/ideas\/lets-avoid-talk-of-chemical-imbalance-its-people-in-distress\">Psyche<\/a>. If a person claims their mental illness as a disease beyond their control, like cancer, then <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@stefkaufman\/visions-for-a-liberated-anti-carceral-crisis-response-c81791459a99\">others may be more likely to view them as humans<\/a> worthy of respect and opportunities. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Two weeks ago, the US Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/26\/health\/fda-schizophrenia-drug.html\">approved a new antipsychotic drug<\/a> that doesn\u2019t target dopamine receptors \u2014 the first since chlorpromazine was first introduced. The new medicine, called Cobenfy, targets acetylcholine instead, a neurotransmitter that notably isn\u2019t dopamine, but can affects dopamine levels indirectly. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The fact that Cobenfy is the first new option presented in 70 years was enough to make headlines. But whether it actually works better than existing options remains to be seen: None of the drug\u2019s three clinical trials ran long enough to tell whether Cobenfy will cause the same long-term side effects \u2014 dramatic weight gain, repetitive body movements \u2014 as its predecessors. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The introduction of Cobenfy captures a lot of what\u2019s troubling \u2014 and what\u2019s hopeful \u2014 about the role of neuroscience in treating mental illness. Sure, a new pharmaceutical treatment may relieve the worst symptoms of schizophrenia with fewer side effects than before. But introducing a new drug can\u2019t eliminate the condition altogether or fundamentally shift how people navigate psychosis. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">The latter strategy \u2014 radically reconsidering how communities care for people with even the most severe mental illnesses \u2014 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/schizophrenia\">recommended by the World Health Organization<\/a>. In many cultures, mental health problems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/23402638\/mental-health-psychiatrist-shortage-community-care-africa\">are not considered biomedical problems<\/a>, so people generally don\u2019t seek things like medication. Community-based mental health care, where lightly-trained laypeople facilitate therapy sessions in their own neighborhoods, can work as well as formal psychiatric care in many settings, with or without medication. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">While community-based models are often discussed in the context of non-psychotic mental illnesses like depression, options beyond psychiatry can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/17\/magazine\/antipsychotic-medications-mental-health.html\">help people experiencing more severe psychosis<\/a>, too. Anti-carceral care strategist and crisis responder <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@stefkaufman\/visions-for-a-liberated-anti-carceral-crisis-response-c81791459a99\">Stefanie Kaufman-Mthimkhulu believes<\/a> that whether the root cause of psychosis is ultimately ancestral spirits, childhood trauma, post-viral inflammation, or a delicate shift in neurochemistry, \u201cit is critical to offer people multiple ways to define and make sense of our experiences.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixh lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg0\">Neuroscience can only take us so far. 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