Rick Reuben wrote:Whether a study is published and whether a study passes peer review are two different things.

True.

I may try to get my friend to comment on this, if she has the time. Some of the stories she has told me about studies based on faulty assumptions, faulty math, and faulty statistical methods are kind of mind-boggling.

There seems to be a disconnect between the science of some of this research, and the underlying statistical methods commonly used. A lot of researchers don't really understand statistics very well.

My friend is kind of (well, is) a genius when it comes to this.

Rick Reuben wrote:Excellent feature in this week's Chicago Reader:
How Shy Became Sick: A Northwestern Victorian lit prof investigates the psychiatric-industrial complex.

There was a pretty good interview with this guy on CBC radio...
There is a link to streaming audio in crappy RealAudio format on this page (search for Christopher Lane).
Or you can go here and subscribe to the podcast... usually you can go back several episodes and download old podcasts..

Someone started another a thread on it here but there was also a study claiming that anti-depressants are useless* in the vast majority of cases of - erm - depression.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/ ... h_sl.shtml


think it worthy of inclusion in this thread



*at, least no less useless than placebos

Here is an interesting take on the new anti-antidepressant studies that have been coming out recently.

I wish they would start prescribing narcotics for depression. No unwanted side effects there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7280798.stm


Is it still taboo to say these things are rubbish?

Does this study include all antidepressants?

I think It refers only to SSRI antidepressants.
Its a newer class of antidepressants: Selective Serotonin Recaptation Inhibitors. The first drug in this class was fluoxetine (Prozac)
There are several other classes of antidepressants: SNRIs, MAOIs, Tricyclics,etc.

242sumner wrote:Does this study include all antidepressants?

I think It refers only to SSRI antidepressants.
Its a newer class of antidepressants: Selective Serotonin Recaptation Inhibitors. The first drug in this class was fluoxetine (Prozac)
There are several other classes of antidepressants: SNRIs, MAOIs, Tricyclics,etc.

I thought they were called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?

At least that's what the doc told me. I'm too lazy to exercise Google this morning.

busbus wrote:
I thought they were called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?

Same thing. The term refers to the reabsortion/recaptation of neurotransmitters, after it has performed its function.

Rick Reuben wrote:

242sumner wrote:Does this study include all antidepressants?

I think It refers only to SSRI antidepressants.

Which are antidepressants.

...which are a specific kind of antidepressants.
One must be cautious in generalizing this study's findings.