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March 27, 2012 2:15 AM
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Does the brain 'remember' antidepressants?

From www.eurekalert.org - March 26, 2012 9:21 PM
Using a placebo pill identical to the real thing, UCLA researchers have found that how the brain responds to antidepressant medication may be influenced by its remembering past antidepressant exposure.

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March 21, 2012 2:30 PM
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CBS 60 Minutes Covers Failure of Antidepressants to Outperform Placebo - APA Angry to Be the Naked Emperor

CBS 60 Minutes Covers Failure of Antidepressants to Outperform Placebo - APA Angry to Be the Naked Emperor | Science News | Scoop.it
From integral-options.blogspot.fr - March 21, 2012 2:30 PM

Those of us care about and research such things have long known that American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the Emperor wearing no clothes when it comes to the efficacy of SSRI antidepressants. The basic premise of the drug industry is that depression is caused by low levels of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin. So if you are depressed, you need a drug that makes more serotonin available in your brain, which is what the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRI) tend to do.

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