[neuroma]

As we're dealing in analogies...

Better think the serotonin/ monoamine hypothesis of depression is akin to saying a server load balancing failure is because of "electricity imbalance". Whilst electrons are undeniably involved, the explanation is not useful, and distracts from better truths.

We have such a scarcity of safe and effective tools to probe and influence the human brain. Herein lies the hope that the diseases we invent might be treated neatly by the tools we posses. Yet, given the origin of disease and the tools are sparsely interlinked, it is too often just a fantasy.

Yet to "do nothing" is usually not acceptable and so we persist, and iteration or invention become the next hope.

[malf]

“electricity imbalance” may be a myth, but a short electricity “fast” (HYTTIOAOA) is still a useful fix for many problems.