The Ethics of Stimulation
Channel: nafindix
Date: 2014-02-27

Stimulants don't help in most cases of depression, but may be an alternative if anti-depressants don't work. This is not acknowledged by the psychiatric community.

See the full lecture here (a truly exceptional exposition, the best I have ever seen): http://youtu.be/NOAgplgTxfc
Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/
Creative Commons licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

As for the hopeless hospitalized case of suicidal depression described by Sapolsky, I would suggest that cocaine may be a more humane treatment than 'scissors'.

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=self_medication_and_p2p_pharmacies