{"id":2096,"date":"2021-02-08T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:56","slug":"brain-sca%ea%9e%a5s-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/08\/brain-sca%ea%9e%a5s-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain [Scans] Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brain Scan<\/em>: Also called neuroimaging or brain imaging. The use of various techniques to produce an image of the structure, function or other aspects of the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many different electrical, magnetic, chemical, x-ray, optical, ultrasound, and radioactive techniques can be used to visualize different brain features. As scientific endeavors to find out more about how the brain works, these are certainly interesting; perhaps even medically useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What isn’t so useful is the psychiatric obsession with the brain<\/a> as the source of mental disorders; or worse yet, as a target for surgical, electrical, magnetic, or chemical manipulation based on the flimsiest of guesses about how the brain actually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing nothing about the underlying causes of serious mental disturbance, psychiatry still sears the brain with electroshock<\/a>, tears it with psychosurgery<\/a> and deadens it with dangerous drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many brain scan studies cannot be reproduced or scientifically validated. Yet sensationalist psychiatric public relations tout claims only meant to sell the latest drug or other “treatment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legitimate scientists and the media are now starting to question the hype<\/a>. Troubling evidence continues to surface<\/a> about defective research methods, challenging scores of “revelations” about how the brain works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, there is flatly no scientific evidence<\/a> showing a definitive link between brain scans and mental disorders. In a study published in Nature<\/em> (20 May 2020<\/a>), 70 teams of neuroimaging researchers analyzed the same brain scan data, looking to verify the same nine hypotheses about the results. Every single team picked a different way to analyze the data, and their results varied wildly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, Brain Scans in psychiatry are really Brain Scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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