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The Unified Theory of the Nervous System and Behavior

 

Another fatal flaw in medical logic

(A fatal flaw is a missing piece of logic so basic and so common to medical research that almost all medical understanding is distorted and corrupted without it.)

The various mechanisms and functions of the nervous system are controlled by the many decisions of nerve cells.

Each cell makes a different decision under different conditions. Some cells need to be excited and others need to be inhibited.

Repeated exposure to particular agent will cause any particular communication site to become more reactive to that particular agent.

So to process these many different decisions is an activity that happens cell by cell. For this reason, an constant increase in a particular chemical in the brain will create a trend for all the cells reactive to that chemical to adjust in the same direction (becoming more reactive to inhibition or excitation).

If every cell has a different assignment and needs to make a different decision, then any chemical agent (medication) that creates a constant change for every cell (towards either excitation or inhibition) will then be interfering with many of the decisions that must be made in the brain.

Different regions of the brain are making decisions for different kinds of functioning. Different regions of the brain have different concentrations of receptor sites for various neurotransmitters. But it is bad logic to say that any particular chemical is a regulator for any type of functioning (such as mood, or physical coordination, etc...).

The brain does not use particular neurotransmitters to regulate any kind of processing. Those decisions are made cell by cell, relative to processes that effect sensitivity towards either excitation or inhibition. (In a later essay I will write about how the innate mathematics of the brain could make it possible to provide a version of every function of the nervous systems even if there were only one excitatory chemical and one inhibitory chemical involved in the system although that system would create a different sort of end product. The variety of chemicals used in the system provide opportunity for various controls that help the colony of cells but the chemicals are not in themselves regulators of functions that are performed by the emergent results of many on and off decisions of trillions of connections. A chemical is just too blunt of a control for that to be possible.)

The major reason evolution has expanded the variety of particular different neurotransmitters is to make it possible for the nervous system to be able to temporarily make changes in focus. (Focus is a different event when applied to different subject matter. This will be fully explained later.)

 

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