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>The take-away should not be that ketamine “is just a placebo,” Heifets emphasized. This is the very definition of placebo and why double blind studies are don
by insickness 3y ago
>The take-away should not be that ketamine “is just a placebo,” Heifets emphasized.
This is the very definition of placebo and why double blind studies are done. The control group and the actual group both improved thinking they got the drug.
> In fact, there may be physiological resonance between the placebo effect — in other words, hope — and how ketamine works.
This is just mumbo jumbo. There's no 'resonance effect' if it works the same in the control group.
- hcks 3y agoThis is insane, people are really unwilling to let go the idea that illegal psychoactive drugs may have any beneficial effects for depression.