Upvoted for the news that these treatments are speeding towards approval. However, the point that no one knows how these new treatments work seems silly, given my understanding that no one seems to know exactly how antidepressants in general work either (or at least they didn't until recently?), even ones that have been used for decades, like Prozac.

Here's a quote from an article from 2021: I've been making references on this blog for years about how we don't even know how antidepressants work

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell there are a bunch of receptors in the brain that are called "cannabinoid receptors", because at the time of their discovery the only thing we knew about them was that they were activated by cannabis. Since then, we've developed a slightly wider understanding of their function in the body's normal operation, and yet the name still stands.

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the only thing we knew about them was that they were activated by cannabis.

I probably should be sleeping. I know this because as I was reading, my eyes lost focus a bit and I read that as "activated by cannibals." Cue the confusion.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"activated by cannibals."

Kuru has entered the chat.

[–] MelodiousFunk@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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