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Study Refutes Research Showing Marginal Antidepressant Effect
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2008
Although one group of researchers recently argued that the benefits of antidepressants are small compared with placebo, a newer study suggests that for some patients, antidepressants may confer clinically significant improvements.
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Antipsychotic Tested in Major Depressive Disorder
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2008
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study sponsored by AstraZeneca suggests that extended-release quetiapine (Seroquel XR) reduces symptoms of major depressive disorder.
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Strength in Numbers
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2008
We have all seen a flock of birds, or a swarm of bees, but what about a parliament of owls? Or a shrewdness of apes? According to James Lipton’s wonderful compendium, most animal groups have terms that, to a greater or lesser extent, capture the meaning of the collective.
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Depression: Not The Common Cold Of Psychiatry
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2008
What exactly is “depression” and how many people have it? What do we really know? These questions have faced us for 200 years and we seemed to be making progress toward the answers in research, but now we are stalled.
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