Interesting to know what’s on neuroscientific radar screens, but impractical in the treatment room because we treat in the here and now.- Moves at a “laboratory” pace – very slow.
- Subject to the vagaries of funding.
- Disappoints often – the complexity of brain functioning has defeated the DSMs and even the best NIMH efforts in search of valid and reliable biomarkers.
- Progress in understanding mental disorders is painstaking – they’ll be no holes-in-one, no all-encompassing explanations, nothing “Einsteinish.”
- There will be some pars, maybe an occasional birdie, and lots of water balls – true in all of medicine though.
- If we’re still fighting the war on cancer and losing most of the battles, how many orders of magnitude more challenging will it be to understand what is called schizophrenia?
7 Reasons Why I Don’t Talk or Write Much About Neuroscience
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About the Author: joe
Joseph Wegmann, R.Ph., LCSW is a licensed clinical pharmacist and a clinical social worker with more than thirty years of experience in the field of psychopharmacology. His diverse professional background in psychopharmacology and counseling affords him a unique perspective on medication management issues. In addition to consulting with numerous psychiatric facilities, he has presented psychopharmacology seminars to thousands of clinicians in 46 states.
