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Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants

14th February 2019 1 Comment

“Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants” is an article written by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (psychiatrist) and published in the BJPsych Bulletin (Jan. 30th 2018) as part of their “Against…
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A radical new hypothesis in medicine: give patients drugs they know don’t work

8th June 2017 0 Comments

The placebo effect is weirder and potentially more useful than we imagined. Harvard medicine professor Ted Kaptchuk is at the bleeding edge of a radical new treatment in medicine: giving patients pills that don’t work. “Our patients tell us it’s…
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