Comments on: Prince Hamlet’s Depression and its Neuroanatomical Correlate http://brainblogger.com/2006/03/06/roundtable-prince-hamlets-depression-and-its-neuroanatomical-correlate/ Topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:06:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jemila Monroe http://brainblogger.com/2006/03/06/roundtable-prince-hamlets-depression-and-its-neuroanatomical-correlate/#comment-77 Jemila Monroe Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:14:00 +0000 http://blog.gnif.org/?p=471#comment-77 I read your piece. Very interesting "roundtable" topic. It's a great thing to get people discussing and I love how you got Shakespear to help you introduce the topic. A distinguished contributor to your roundtable :)I didn't know about the MRI and genotype studies on depression. I feel it's really important to get that stuff out there, because there is a perception, I think, that psychiatry is "fuzzy" science. I read your piece. Very interesting “roundtable”
topic. It’s a great thing to get people discussing
and I love how you got Shakespear to help you introduce the topic. A distinguished contributor to your
roundtable :)I didn’t know about the MRI and genotype studies on depression. I feel it’s really important to get that stuff out there, because there is a perception, I
think, that psychiatry is “fuzzy” science.

]]> By: Tony Brown http://brainblogger.com/2006/03/06/roundtable-prince-hamlets-depression-and-its-neuroanatomical-correlate/#comment-76 Tony Brown Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:48:00 +0000 http://blog.gnif.org/?p=471#comment-76 David, A very subtle observation you've made here. It is indeed tempting to see President Lincoln's "melancholic ambition" and the Parkinsonian personality as two points on the same continuum. I also share your frustration with what seems sometimes to be "scienceless science." Hence, my preoccupation with identifying the neuroanatomical correlates of behavior. For instance maybe we'd find out that both depressed and Parkinsonian patients actually do share some anatomical anomaly. KEEP THINKING David David,
A very subtle observation you’ve made here. It is indeed tempting to see President Lincoln’s “melancholic ambition” and the Parkinsonian personality as two points on the same continuum.

I also share your frustration with what seems sometimes to be “scienceless science.” Hence, my preoccupation with identifying the neuroanatomical correlates of behavior. For instance maybe we’d find out that both depressed and Parkinsonian patients actually do share some anatomical anomaly.
KEEP THINKING David

]]> By: David Kwon D.O./M.S. candidate http://brainblogger.com/2006/03/06/roundtable-prince-hamlets-depression-and-its-neuroanatomical-correlate/#comment-75 David Kwon D.O./M.S. candidate Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:39:00 +0000 http://blog.gnif.org/?p=471#comment-75 Also, Lincoln's "melancholy" as to how it affected his politics and stance on abolitionism. Do you think it's conceivable that some with depression turn to ambition to self-medicate and/or as escapism [ie log cabin birth to President of the United States]? I find what is classified as "behavioral" in medicine to be fascinating and yet vexing. It seems to me at times a science without science, as it were. Also, Lincoln’s “melancholy” as to how it affected his politics and stance on abolitionism. Do you think it’s conceivable that some with depression turn to ambition to self-medicate and/or as escapism [ie log cabin birth to President of the United States]? I find what is classified as “behavioral” in medicine to be fascinating and yet vexing. It seems to me at times a science without science, as it were.

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