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If placebo eases depression, real meds will too

Posted by Tomatheus on October 3, 2015, at 15:03:19

If placebo eases depression, real meds will too

By Rick Nauert, Ph.D.
Psych Central

New research finds that when it comes to treating depression, how well a person responds to a sham or fake medicine can be a predictor of how they will respond to actual medications.

That is, those who can muster their brain's own chemical forces against depression appear to have an advantage in overcoming its symptoms with help from a medication.

However, for those whose brain chemistry doesn't react as much to a fake medicine, or placebo, the active drug may provide substandard benefits.

Full article:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/10/01/if-placebo-eases-depression-real-meds-will-too/92948.html

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Thoughts on this? It seems to me that this article's suggesting that much (though not necessarily all) of the response that patients with depression get from taking medications is due to the placebo effect. What do the rest of you think?

Tomatheus


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