Comments on: New Depression Research: Appreciation, Critique, and Gospel Opportunities https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/10/19/new-depression-research-appreciation-critique-and-gospel-opportunities/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Anxiety: My Thorn In My Flesh - The Aquila Report https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/10/19/new-depression-research-appreciation-critique-and-gospel-opportunities/#comment-49968 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:06:45 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24870#comment-49968 […] people who are strongly against the use of medications to treat depression and anxiety. However,there is good research that suggests that medications are necessary and helpful for addressing the physical/biological […]

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]]> By: Anxiety: My Thorn in My Flesh – A Daughter of the Reformation https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/10/19/new-depression-research-appreciation-critique-and-gospel-opportunities/#comment-49963 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 18:20:34 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24870#comment-49963 […] people who are strongly against the use of medications to treat depression and anxiety. However, there is good research that suggests that medications are necessary and helpful for addressing the physical/biological […]

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]]> By: Leslie Hutton https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/10/19/new-depression-research-appreciation-critique-and-gospel-opportunities/#comment-49673 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:14:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24870#comment-49673 I finally listened to all three of the lectures. I honestly thought the third lecture was the best but I have taken many courses in general and human genetics. He’s trying to find an objective cause for MDD by searching the genome. The future studies he is proposing are extremely exciting. The pharmacological approach has failed many. We need to know what predisposes patients to MDD. The entire neurochemical approach may be or is very far down stream from the original cause. Treating with antidepressants, even ketamine, are analogous to repeatedly using sand bags to keep the lawn from flooding without ever going upstream to discover the collapsed dam.

]]> By: Leslie Hutton https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/10/19/new-depression-research-appreciation-critique-and-gospel-opportunities/#comment-49660 Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:23:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=24870#comment-49660 I haven’t listened to the lectures yet but I will. I have a PhD in neurochemistry but lost my career because of treatment resistant major depression. It is estimated that up to 44% of patients with major depression who try antidressants will be treatment resistant. I’m waiting to see if I qualify for transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment so that maybe I could begin working again. One old/new area of research that you haven’t mentioned is the role of the immune response and nutritional deficiencies in major depressive disorder (MDD). The immune response in some MDD patients shows signs of being perminantly activated as if the patient had a chronic infection. In part this could be due to abnormalities in the stress response. It would take an entire article to explain how this occures. Preliminary studies have shown that drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders are also effective in providing relief from MDD. Unfortunately, this studies are very smalland it will be years before anyone knows if they could actually cure someone.

I came close to tears as I listened to J. Vernon McGee teach on Mark 2:1-12. Don’t you know that guy laid in bed a long time yearning to be free but no way to get to the only cure?

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