Depression, Serotonin, SSRIs, Psychiatry, Mental Health & Social Media | Joanna Moncrieff | 88
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Depression Rating Scale Schools
A lot of these randomized control trials were done looking specifically at people who had depression and did not initially respond to a placibo. Depression rating scale scores are just collections of typical symptoms of depression. They ere that they've not been particularly well validated, in the sense that we don't really know whether they really correlate with disability or impairment. People generally improve by around eight to ten points in these trials. But the difference in improvement rates between the ante depressent group and the group of people who take the cebo, is around two points. In fact, in the really big meter analysis that have been done recently, a bit less than two points. It's a very small difference
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