PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primum Non Nocere, Anhedonia, Becquerel
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*malingering argument is stupid: more about malingering and not a/b depression. Malingering: not a psychiatric diagnosis - condit. in psych. settings but not diagnosis: person fabricating or exaggerating symptoms to acquire some ext. incentive. *there may conditions where placebo trails for depression are acceptable. *tri-council - ethical guidelines for placebo research *placebo part. If none of the condit"s are met, no reb can accept the study. If 40% respond to placebo, then not really withholding treatment because they"re responding. There are a lot who suffer from depression who don"t respond to known effective treatments . More drugs on market = more options to prescribe. Many antidep"s have horrible side-effects e. g. one called effectsor (nicknamed side-effectsor) Patients choose to go off it because they"re so horrible; but some may not have side-effects to it so also individ. diff"s. More compounds - more effective treatment more people staying on drugs e. g. tweaking moles for slightly diff. meds.
