I'm always amazed how we don't look at our diets before resorting to drugs to treat conditions.
What you eat has the largest effect on your brain chemistry.
What you eat has the largest effect on your brain chemistry.
I thought the article was good. It didn't overhype any expectations of the drugs being tested. The research appears to be proceeding cautiously, but optimistically.
Take a look at the research on how the average diet of carbs and process foods affects our body. A ketogenic diet has shown to increase brain function in a recent study. I'll try to find it and post here.
Understanding the diseased brain and using drugs to reverse/attack the root causes of neurodegenerative disorders will help further humanity no doubt. The ketogenic diet does seem to help from what I've read though, so that in conjunction with drugs could be big.
What you eat absolutely affects brain chemistry. Eg friends of mine in grad school were studying depression via tryptophan depletion. They'd give volunteers a homemade protein drink which would reliably knock down serotonin levels. In other words, a milkshake that made you depressed. No drugs required.
They tried to induce depression? That's prison camp science, do your friends study at the Josef Mengele memorial faculty of Medicine?
these aren't mutually exclusive. you seem to be suggesting no one is studying how diet affects brain function?
Neuroplasticity- how the brain is wired (neutral pathways), is a more plausible explanation for dysfunction in our lives. fMRI scans can confirm where activity is taking place in the neurotypical brain as opposed to those who suffer from disorders. What you eat is not going to magically repair the activity in these parts of the brain.