Aimee Hunter, a research psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has long studied individual responses to antidepressants. Being skeptical of the true effectiveness of the drugs, she says she was originally interested in researching the impact of placebos. But over the years, her own data began convincing her otherwise. "I’ve come to see now, by doing the research myself and spending hours looking at numbers, that the medication is absolutely doing something," Hunter says.
In an earlier study that Hunter published in 2009, she and her team used the same QEEG technique on 58 patients, who were given a placebo daily for one week before being randomized to take either placebo or an active drug. Researchers found distinct patterns of brain activity in the patients; not everyone responded to the placebo the same way. "We found that changes in brain function occurring during the first week of placebo predicted who will do well on medicati
A. could not distinguish antidepressants from placebos
B. found medication was of no use to depressed patients
C. did not believe antidepressants could really help patients
D. did not use the right medical instrument to do her experiment
Aimee Hunter, a research psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has long studied individual responses to antidepressants. Being skeptical of the true effectiveness of the drugs, she says she was originally interested in researching the impact of placebos. But over the years, her own data began convincing her otherwise. "I’ve come to see now, by doing the research myself and spending hours looking at numbers, that the medication is absolutely doing something," Hunter says.
In an earlier study that Hunter published in 2009, she and her team used the same QEEG technique on 58 patients, who were given a placebo daily for one week before being randomized to take either placebo or an active drug. Researchers found distinct patterns of brain activity in the patients; not everyone responded to the placebo the same way. "We found that changes in brain function occurring during the first week of placebo predicted who will do well on medicati
A. the patients believe in the effects of these placebos
B. the placebos have generated real effects on the patients
C. the patients are never told anything about the placebos
D. the placebos are milder medications than antidepressants
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