Posted by SLS on July 17, 2006, at 23:01:41
In reply to Re: couldn't have said it better myself, posted by SLS on July 17, 2006, at 22:01:03
> > "and the placebo response overall appears to have increased over time"
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> > Perhaps, but what magnitide are we talking about. There are no numbers. It could have increased an average of 2% for all I know.
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> > In one sense I can see drug responces in the past as being stronger since the TCA's are more effective drugs.
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> > I would need some numbers that show how the placebo response has increased significantly.
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> > Placebo response could have been lower in the past too due the the weaker "establishement" of AD's in the past.
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> The numbers are all there. All you have to do is go to the library and pull out the journals. I started doing that in 1982. That's how I knew the numbers had changed even before I encountered the literature I cited along this thread. I witnessed the changes in placebo response over a 25 year period. It has been far more than 2 percent.
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> Currently marketed antidepressants work significantly better than our most recent clinical trials indicate.
I know this is going to come as terrible news to you, but there are still doctors who believe that 85% of sufferers of MDD can reach full remission by cleverly using all of the treatments currently available.
- Scott
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