176. Peter Sterling; Mental disturbance and the worrying return of physical interference in the brain.
If you have anything to do with health or the mental health field you must listen to this podcast and follow the links below. This is about the creeping reintroduction of the practice of causing physical damage to the brain as a 'remedy' for distress. Peter Sterling is an American physiologist and neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In his long career he has made major and varied contributions to scientific knowledge and you will see more about this in the links below. He has also been a social activist throughout his life and we touch upon that before talking about his recent work ‘Causality in Mental Disturbance; a review of the Neuroscience’ 'My life in ten minutes' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjL2D29acro&t=11s In the essays below, Peter provides an “overview of what we don’t know about the brain regarding mental disturbance and what we should not be doing to the brain physically and chemically as ‘therapy." https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/causality-mental-disturbance/ https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/neuroscientist-evaluates-depression/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35107578/