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Great study that must be, no records from before, no control group.
by stefan_ 8y ago
Great study that must be, no records from before, no control group.
- will_brown 8y agoYou literally made that up out of whole cloth without reading the study.
- in_cahoots 8y agoThe OP is correct in both assertions. Did you read the study yourself?
- will_brown 8y agoYes I’m the abstract and conclusion UPenn clearly acknowledges the medical history of the patients. None of them had any history of head/brain injury. I’d like to see you cite anything from the study that states the doctors made that statement without reviewing the patients medical histories. Or anything at all from the study suggesting UPenn had no access to the patients medical histories.
- mattkrause 8y agoIt's obviously not ideal, but it's not like you can recruit subject, do some baseline tests, and then prospectively assign some of them to a foreign embassy where they /might/ be caught in the middle of something. Not everything needs to be an RCT, and we've learned a lot from case studies, especially where the "case" is due to some effect that's difficult or unethical to replicate. Some examples: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison and his bilateral hippocampal lobectomy taught us a lot about memory. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_DF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_DF has yielded some valuable information about visual processing streams. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M._(patient) and the neural basis of fear (and, more generally, emotions). - Barry Kidston accidentally invented--and validated on himself--a method for studying Parkinson's: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP)