Medicine is supposed to make progress, to go forward in scientific terms so that each
successive generation knows more and does better than previous generations. This hasn't …

Antidepressant drugs are the mainstay of depression treatment in both primary and
specialized mental health care. However, academic psychiatry holds false beliefs about …

Background In current psychiatric practice, antidepressants are widely and with ever-
increasing frequency prescribed to patients. However, several scientific biases obfuscate …

The prevalence of a return of depressive symptoms during maintenance AD treatment was 9–
57% in published trials [6], pointing to an occurrence of tolerance phenomena during AD …

This article reviews how data on the benefits and hazards of antidepressants have been
analysed, and how conclusions drawn from these analyses conflict with the data …

Emerging data suggest that antidepressant medications may not be as efficacious as once
hoped and also may be associated with an increased suicidality risk in some patients. The …

Antidepressants, in particular newer agents, are among the most widely prescribed
medications worldwide with annual sales of billions of dollars. The introduction of these …

Although antidepressants represent the cornerstone of medical management of major
depressive disorder, several widely publicized recent developments have called into …

Any newspaper or TV/radio listener in recent months will have heard reported that
antidepressants are no better than placebo. This extravagant claim was fuelled by a press …

In the Jan. 17, 2008, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a “special article”
described the selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on the apparent …