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Top 5 Neuron Culture hits from January – plus Neil Young
Posted by David Dobbs on February 1, 2010 PTSD, pharma, adjuvants, bad movies — these are a few of my favorite things, and readers’ too. What’s Neil doing here? He wasn’t on Neuron Culture; I posted his clip on my catch-all, David Dobbs’s Somatic Marker, because I love him. So he comes first. From 1986. Looks as if he’s having a particularly good…
Top Five Posts at Neuron Culture in November
Posted by David Dobbs on December 7, 2009 1. Maybe it was just the headline … but the runaway winner was “No pity party, no macho man.” Psychologist Dave Grossman on surviving killing. Actually I think it was the remarkable photo, which looks like a painting. Check it out. 2. I’m not vulnerable, just especially plastic. Risk genes, environment, and evolution, in the…
Did Antidepressants Depress Japan?
Posted by David Dobbs on March 12, 2008 The Kirsch study published a few weeks ago has stirred much discussion of the placebo power of antidepressants (or is it the antidepressant power of placebos?); it’s clear that the act of taking a pill that you expect to help you often does help you. But can the availability of a pill meant for depression…
Placebo effect stronger if you pay more
Posted by David Dobbs on March 6, 2008 With so much written here lately about placebos and drug effectiveness, I would not want to leave out this remarkable study: Placebo effect is stronger, apparently, if you pay more for the placebo. This is a fascinating study described in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association. A crudely shortened version: Some…
Slippery Ground: SSRI-Study Fallout Spreads
Posted by David Dobbs on February 29, 2008 The ripples from the PLOS Medicine antidepressants-don’t-work study by Kirsch et alia, which I covered below, just keep spreading. Those who want to follow it can do well by visiting or bookmarking this search I did (an ingenious Google News search for “Kirsch SSRI”). It seems to be tracking the press coverage pretty well. Note…
Meta-Analysis Shows Antidepressants Have No Significant Effects
Posted by David Dobbs on February 25, 2008 I’ve not had time to thoroughly read this yet. But on the heels of another study published a few weeks ago (I blogged on it here) showing that SSRIs have little therapeutic effect if you include the (unflattering) clinical trials the industry had previously hidden, PLOS Medicine now publishes a larger study — a meta-analysis…
What’s Under the Rock: Full Data Shows SSRIs Barely Best Placebo
Posted by David Dobbs on January 17, 2008 I’ve written before, both here and in print, about how FDA policy and drug company practices have allowed drug makers to publish (and the FDA to base approval on) only the most flattering drug-trial results while keeping less-flattering studies in the drawer. Today a New England Journal of Medicine report shows how things change when…