Who Don't Antidepressants Work?
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Antidepressants are ineffective in fully 50% of the people who take them. It is clearly early 20th century medicine, where you keep trying things and hope something happens while pharmaceutical companies who impress doctors the most make the most money. With so much research and money spent on depression studies, how is it possible that it is only as effective as doing nothing at all? 1) The cause of depression has been oversimplified. A study from the laboratory of depression researcher Eva Redei presented at the Neuroscience 2009 conference in Chicago this week addresses some strongly held beliefs about depression. read more