Research Confirming the Basic Four Brain-Disabling Principles

ILLUSTRATIVE RESEARCH CONFIRMING THE BASIC FOUR BRAIN-DISABLING PRINCIPLES 

The first four principles are the heart of the brain-disabling concept basically, that all psychiatric drugs cause a generalized impairment of brain function that reduces overall mental and emotion function that this disabling effect occurs, as well, in normal volunteers and that the effect has no specificity for any psychiatric disorder. 

On occasion, research studies directly confirm the brain-disabling principle, but without intending to do so and without acknowledging it. In some ways, this is the most objective kind of research in that the researchers are unaware of the principle that they are testing. The following three studies involve the second-generation or atypical neuroleptic risperidone (Risperdal), which is widely prescribed to children and adults. 

Peter Liddle and his colleagues (2000) used positron emission tomography (PET) to study the effects of risperidone on the rate of metabolism on the ventral striatum, thalamus, and frontal cortex. Their subjects were eight neuroleptic-naive patients diagnosed with their first episodes of schizophrenia. 

Moreover, according to Fiddle et al. (2000), after six weeks treatment with risperidone, the decreases in frontal lobe metabolism were more extensive. In other words, the risperidone produced a progressive chemical lobotomy with suppression of frontal lobe function. 

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