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The effectiveness of an approach that recognizes that different brain systems control different
symptoms
has yet to be properly evaluated, but research suggests that it should work.
To some laypersons, and obviously to many Americans,
symptoms
of mental impairment can appear to be strengths.
The sometimes intolerable withdrawal
symptoms
that can make it difficult and hazardous to stop taking anti-depressants also expose many users to severe and depressing side effects: substantial weight gain, loss of libido, and mood changes, to name just the most common complaints.
On the contrary, wishful thinking led experts to adduce "discontinuation
symptoms"
as evidence of the effectiveness of vital remedies.
Intuitive medicine describes when a doctor interprets a patient’s
symptoms
to arrive at a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment, the efficacy of which is often uncertain.
Treating unspecific
symptoms
without a prescribed roadmap requires effective decision-making and trust, which is a significant hurdle for machines.
Up until the mid-nineteenth century, bacterial and viral diseases were treated through intuitive medicine, because nobody had isolated the cause of patients’
symptoms.
Indeed, the most common of these illnesses, unipolar depression, is the least complex in terms of its symptoms, but also the most lethal: 20% of depressed patients are estimated to commit suicide.
A revanchist Russia, chaos in the Middle East, and simmering tensions in the South China Sea are all
symptoms
of a system that is beginning to fray.
They are long-lasting conditions, often contracted at an early age, and both the illnesses and their
symptoms
are progressive.
And
symptoms
accumulate: sight is gradually lost, genital lesions appear around puberty (sometimes increasing risk of HIV), and skin condition declines as millions of microscopic worms become intolerably itchy.
Time is running out on the West, because both Europe and America have yet to digest the fact that all the individual crises of the last few years – from the sub-prime crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers to Greek austerity and Ireland’s near-bankruptcy – are
symptoms
of a deeper problem: a world undergoing a far-reaching, irreversible, and, indeed, unprecedented restructuring of economic power.
But any cure would have to be administered before the plaques form, and years before
symptoms
of dementia appear.
Taken together, these are
symptoms
that share a root cause: speculative and often narrow interests have superseded common interests, common responsibilities, and common sense.
The
symptoms
that Hippocrates associated with melancholic disorder – “aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness” – are remarkably similar to those contained in modern definitions of depressive disorder.
Like Hippocrates, physicians throughout history have recognized that the
symptoms
of normal sadness and depressive disorder were similar.
Whether a condition was diagnosed as disordered depended not just on the symptoms, which might be similar in normal sadness, and not just on the condition’s severity, for normal sadness can be severe and disordered sadness moderate, but on the degree to which the
symptoms
were an understandable response to circumstances.
All conditions that display five or more of nine
symptoms
– including low mood, lack of pleasure, sleep and appetite difficulties, inability to concentrate, and fatigue – over a two-week period are now considered depressive disorders.
Symptoms
otherwise meeting the DSM criteria are not considered disorders if they arise after the death of an intimate, do not last more than two months, and do not include certain particularly severe
symptoms.
Yet, comparable
symptoms
that arise after, say, dissolution of a romantic relationship, loss of a job, or diagnosis of a life-threatening illness are not excluded from diagnosis of disorders.
Parents whose child is seriously ill, spouses who discover their partners’ extramarital affairs, or workers unexpectedly fired from valued jobs are defined as suffering mental disorders if they develop enough
symptoms
to meet the DSM criteria.
This is so even if the
symptoms
disappear as soon as the child recovers, the spouses reconcile, or a new job is found.
She had been feeling sick for about two months, and when she went to a health clinic, she described
symptoms
such as weight loss, fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, night sweats, chills, loss of appetite, and pain when breathing and coughing.
People with Huntington’s disease usually die about 15 years after the onset of the
symptoms.
And, according to this narrative’s advocates, almost all big banks display
symptoms
of chronic mismanagement.
The first
symptoms
typically appear in a person's mid-twenties, and many people never fully recover.
Treatment with drugs, particularly those that target the neurotransmitter dopamine, can reduce the symptoms, but the mechanism of this effect is unknown and unfortunate side effects can and do occur.
On the other hand, the characteristic
symptoms
of schizophrenia are firmly in the domain of the mind.
This question applies to other
symptoms
as well.
So perhaps the key to understanding the
symptoms
of schizophrenia at a physiological level will come from studying connections between different brain regions.
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