One problem I have with drug companies is that they don’t make all their data public.
Category Archive: March 7
The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory – the theory that people get depressed when they don’t have enough serotonin in their brain – we know that that’s wrong.
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.