Posted by SLS on July 9, 2006, at 19:17:42
In reply to Re: Correlation vs causality, posted by SLS on July 9, 2006, at 10:57:47
> > > Unfortunatly, 99% of the people here are in the MAJORITY that psycho meds don't seem to work so well.
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> > According to STAR*D, the majority of people remitted by their third drug trial.
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> And the majority of the people entering the study displayed a recurrent course of illness and were inherently more difficult to treat.
"Combined with previous reports from the project, the new finding suggests that about 60% of people who have depression can gain complete remission by the time they've tried three drugs."http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-01-depression-drug_x.htm
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From the McMan's Bipolar Newsletter:
"When Newsletter 8#3 reported on the STAR*D second round results a few months ago, Frederick Goodwin MD, co-author (with Kay Jamison PhD) of "Manic-Depressive Illness" got back to me with this observation:
"I noticed that the cohort they studied had a mean of six previous episodes; this means that they were relatively highly recurrent unipolar patients..."
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- Scott
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