Posted by AndrewB on May 3, 2000, at 10:54:29
In reply to Re: Shorter trials: believe it! , posted by JohnL on May 3, 2000, at 5:05:30
John,
You are an excellent spokesperson for Dr. Jensen’s methods. If you are not a PR professional already, you should consider such work!
I did a Medline search. I could find no evidence to support Dr. Jensen’s claim of a correlation between an initial improvement (or non response) and a long term AD response. This idea of one’s first reaction being the true reaction is so simple it seems naive to think that it wouldn’t have been confirmed by now. After all, it seems diagnostic criteria that would allow for faster trials has been something of a holy grail of the psychiatric community. Dr. Jensen’s ideas still need to undergo rigorous testing before they can be separated from the long parade of various fallacious claims made by the ambitious and self promoting. But there is some truth in most everything and I wonder if there is a subpopulation of treatment resistant depressives who, because they respond quickly to antidepressants, would be well served by Jensen’s protocol.
Best wishes, as always,
AndrewB
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