Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by mlyle on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:30PM (#29732849)

It's all a little freaky if you think about it: even in evidence-based medicine, a whole lot of it is people making qualitative determinations and squishy adjustments to treatment, and undoubtedly getting it wrong a whole lot.

Then again, the stuff shows benefits in trial, and presumably we get most practitioners trained up and doing the thing that's the standard of care well enough...

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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by eru on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:53AM (#29734351)

There might be the perfect amount of paracetamol to take to treat your light headache.

But in practice people just take two 500mg tablets and call it a day. Works well enough most of the time, even though it might be 'wrong' in some platonic sense of the word. (Eg you might have been helped enough with a slightly lower dose. Or perhaps 1250mg would have been better and suppressed slightly more of the pain. Who knows?)

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