BS 195 Neuroscience of Emotion with David Anderson
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The study of animals and causal neuro science are critical if we are ever going to improve medicines for the mind. We have no medicines in psychiatry that have been developed based on that kind of causal understanding. Even though we have drugs for mental illnesses like depression and scitsophrenia, many people discontinue those medications because of all their side effects. These medications just raise seratonan and dopamen activity throughout the brain. And the hope is that by understanding how these internal states are generated in the specific neurons and connections that produce them, wi'll be able to develop a new generation of medicines.
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