Health News.com has:FDA Approves Implant Device For OCD Treatment
Now, FDA has approved mechanical, electrical Brain Implants, ...... to control your Mental Behavior.
"Approximately 1 in 50 U.S. adults suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) which is the fourth most common mental disorder."Reuters has this gem using electrodes planted IN your brain.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder used to be called being stuck in a rut before Psych started turning a buck on it. And the FDA has approved the 1st Implant Device to Treat severe OCD.
It's the Reclaim DBS Therapy Device from Medtronic. This ghost roaster shoots out electrical impulses to control the "Symptoms" of OCD. And like everything else to do with Symptom Control, Reduction, and Flat Out Sledgehammering, ..... it Ain't going to Cure Nothing, ..... because there's nothing To cure. And of course, ....... it's a DSM 'Incurable Mental Illness', ..... so, ..... once Diagnosed by a College Degreed Ideate, ....... there go your Rights, ........ and the rest of your Life.
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 300.3: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
This device is already in use to treat Parkinson's Disease, Tremors and Dystonias, ..... and they approved it with its 4 electrodes, ...... to Bury IN your brain, ...... after examining data on a Whole 26 patients who experienced a 40% reduction in Symptoms. The article does Not however tell us what Else those 26 experienced.
But Wait! There's More!
IF, ..... you order the Ginsu Knives in the Next 4 Minutes, .........
Online Health News has:
FDA Fails To Check Medical Devices
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has called for an investigation into the U.S. FDA’s early laboratory inspections of high-risk medical devices, saying that the agency conducts far too few of them. The watchdog group urged lawmakers to give the FDA more funding to hire and train additional inspectors. FDA records show that early lab inspections dropped from 33 in 2005 to just 1 in 2008. A number of FDA scientists have complained that the agency's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) stopped requiring device makers to undergo FDA preclinical lab inspections.This $60K Ghost Zapper, implanted IN your brain, is currently used to control Parkinsons, Tremors, and Dystonias:
All of which can be, and are, Also Implanted into Your Brain and Life, By Symptom Controlling Antipsychotic Poisons, ....... prescribed INTO your brain, ..... to Control, ..... Symptoms.
Psychiatrists make a LOT of MONEY, implanting those Billable 'Mental Illnesses', ...... Into Your Brain.
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 332.1 Neuroleptic Induced Parkinsonism
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 333.1 Medication Induced Postural Tremor
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 333.7 Neuroleptic Induced Acute Dystonia
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 333.82 Neuroleptic Induced Tardive Dyskinesia
DSM-IV-TR Billing Code: 333.90 Medication Induced Movement Disorder NOS
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I wonder if there is any scientist with ethics left.
ReplyDeleteThis is spooky!
Little is known of the brain to make such treatments.
It can make lots of difference in the whole system.
Spooky? Ethics? When one is discussing Behavioral $cientists?
ReplyDeleteThis critter was approved for severe OCD based on only 26 test guinea pigs, and the article puts 1 in 50 people as suffering from OCD.
And at $60K a pop, you have to expect the kind of Ethical consideration Behavioral Ghostbusters are Already World Renown for!
It's a hard work to speak of psychiatry's damages in Brazil. Though many Brazilians that I know are dying because of psych drugs. They don't complain.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is a great source of info on the things going on in psychiatry at large. The stuff about OCD implants is worth translating, for example. All brazilians must know about this. Thank you for posting.
Ezequiel;
ReplyDeleteAnd Thank You for your kind words Sir.
We would comment more often but it would be unfair to ask your readers to run for the Babelfish each time, ..... because what little Portuguese we know is inadequate to properly communicate our knowledge of Psychiatry.
Cruising around the psych blogs we meet some of the nicest, hardest working, and intelligent people. And the more years they have been Psychiatrized, the worse they are hurting.
And it is always 'For Their Own Good'. We'd post more often but we can only read just So much of That Psychiatric Behavioral Bull $cience without losing our lunch.
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