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That seems to be an article about using transcranial stimulation to treat major depression, but you're replying to something that didn't even mention major depr
by kanzure 13y ago
That seems to be an article about using transcranial stimulation to treat major depression, but you're replying to something that didn't even mention major depression. Which specifically are you calling pseudoscience: using transcranial stimulation to treat major depression, or is the very belief that current can be routed through the skull the piece of pseudoscience here? Thanks.
- acqq 13y agoWhat I said was "still more a wishful thinking and placebo than a proved method" and cited "a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized, double-blind and sham-controlled trials" which concludes "The clinical utility of tDCS as a treatment for MD remains unclear when clinically relevant outcomes such as response and remission rates are considered." That means that I don't doubt that you can let the DC flow through your brain but that I believe that even 200 years after the first of such experiments it's still more wishful thinking and placebo than factually "double-blind and sham-controlled" proved that such treatments have some positive lasting effects. On another side, I wouldn't be surprised that some kind of short-term effects can be observed (although I must admit I'm unfamiliar with such, what I know is that yesterday I saw the article writing about the benefits of such treatments in the kind of magazine which also writes about chemtrails(!)). Can you please tell me which controlled studies you consider important?