From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net> Subject: BHA: Biological reductivism Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:43:00 -0500 Shiv wrote: > For the recent discovery on how (any type of) OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - is reducible to genes, see http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/24by7panews/page.cfm?objectid=13548514&method=full&siteid=50143 Smelling a rat, I read this article. Guess what: if you read carefully, the article doesn't say that at all. The genetic disorder was found in only 2 of the 30 people with OCD within the study. So there is one or more type of OCD that does not reduce to the genes. That also corresponds to therapeutic findings for depression and bipolar disorder: drug therapy and (at least some types of) talk therapy have roughly equal success rates (which in general improves dramatically if they're combined) -- and talk therapy actually changes brain chemistry! So much for biological reductivism. T. --- Tobin Nellhaus nellhaus-AT-mail.com "Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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