Posted by Larry Hoover on February 22, 2007, at 6:44:48
In reply to Re: MAO-A elevated in major depression, posted by linkadge on February 21, 2007, at 20:20:49
> Yeah, I read this study, but I found a few larger studies that showed no major differences of MAO levels in depression.
I can't find any comparable studies. None I've seen looked at so many regions of the brain, nor employed this state-of-the-art scanning method.
> I find this type of hand-and-glove study a little questionable, since the study designers know what they want to find.
>
> LinkadgeI come to a far different conclusion. They know what they were looking to assess, but not the values that might be observed. The two groups differed by two standard deviations, and with extraordinarily low estimates of chance findings.
I think it would be hard to exclude this study from consideration in the conceptualization of the biochemistry of major depressive disorder.
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
thread:734868
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20070219/msgs/735033.html