Posted by King Vultan on April 10, 2004, at 11:10:57
In reply to found on website (is any of this true), posted by worriedstef on April 9, 2004, at 20:33:44
Technically, it is true that the exact mechanism of how antidepressants work is the subject of theory and conjecture. For instance, people who respond to SSRIs may not necessarily have too little serotonin in absolute terms, but rather, they may actually have too many of the wrong types of serotonin receptors, or their serotonin neurons may not be firing fast enough for some other reason. However, what's indisputable is that many people do respond to these drugs. Regardless of how aggressively the drugs are marketed and sampled, antidepressants have proven clinical efficacy as indicated in changes in depression scores in double blind clinical trials against placebo.
Todd
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