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Can the effectiveness of antidepressants be explained by a placebo effect?
Short answer
Don't believe everything you read.
Background
The article cited (Kirsch, 2014) appears in a German journal with a mediocre impact factor. Not the most convincing platform.
I'll cite ...
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How do we know bipolar is one illness rather than two comorbid illnesses?
Short answer: Bipolar disorder is probably not composed of two comorbid illnesses, but it may be on a continuum that includes some depressive disorders.
This is a good question, though it does convey ...
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
Upon closer examination, it appears that Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is a term that was coined by Dr. William Dodson to describe the phenomenon of rejection sensitivity in ADHD sufferers. It does ...
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
You might want to look at
Bondü, R. & Esser, G. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2015) 24: 185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-014-0560-9
The authors found fairly compelling evidence of a latent ...
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Is there a difference between ADD and ADHD?
They are interchangeable. ADD was a term used throughout most of the 80s and ADHD aftewards. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 1980 (DSM-III) published by the American ...
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Treatment and strategies for procrastination for ADHD
This is an interesting question, and after mostly failing to find recent literature I've become fascinated at why this topic is not more heavily studied. It looks like a field ripe for disruption by ...
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Do stimulants increase the IQ tests score for everyone?
IQ in ADHD sufferers indeed increases with the treatment of stimulants, such as methylphenidate (Meyes et al., 1994). This is thought to rely on the attention-narrowing effect of stimulants, i.e., ...
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Are ADHD and OCD under some type of mental illness?
Different diagnostic systems may assign these syndromes to different categories based on theory or clinical opinion. In the DSM-IV era, OCD was listed under the "Anxiety disorders" category; however, ...
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How does one distinguish BPD anger from ADHD anger?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complicated diagnosis to understand and treat. A painful mix of emotional trouble, unstable relationships and self-destructive behavior, including suicide ...
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What is the relationship between rejection sensitive dysphoria and ADHD?
Dodson distinguishes "RSD" from social anxiety in that the latter begins as an anticipatory fear and is generally lessened upon social interaction whereas the RSD flare-ups begin as in-the-moment ...
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System 1 thinking and ADHD
I think there's very likely a connection between the two, but not a direct one.
The first difficulty will be visible when you dig into the literature on Dual Process Theory — that's the overarching ...
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Dutch RCT of mindfulness therapy vs methylphenidate in ADHD
This is the protocol study referred to:
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12888-016-0978-3
The trial only remained in a planned state:
http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/...
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Best way to modeling ADHD?
The approach you would take will depend upon your level of analysis. For instance, one could choose to model an entire individual's behaviour (i.e. with heuristic models), the activity of neural ...
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Do stimulants increase the IQ tests score for everyone?
Not about IQ as a whole alas, but I found a 2010 systematic review & meta-analysis "Modafinil and methylphenidate for neuroenhancement in healthy individuals: A systematic review", apparently the ...
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How does one distinguish BPD anger from ADHD anger?
The difference is in consistency. Bipolar disorder there is usually episodic; quick, drastic changes between normality, mania, depression and anger. ADHD on the other hand is chronic and affects ...
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What is the relationship between anger management difficulties and ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a type of Neuro-developmental condition whose signs can be seen during early childhood.
ADHD is related to hyperactive behavior, attention ...
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What is the underlying genetic basis for ADHD?
I hope the few sources below answer your question. I strongly recommend you read actual sources as opposed to the parts I have quoted. I don't know much about this topic so I did not attempt to ...
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Are there any movies or series involving someone with ADHD?
Mommy is about the problems of a mother with his child which is said to have ADHD.
Anyway, I think you will get better answers on https://movies.stackexchange.com/.
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How well defined is ADD/ADHD?
I understand ADHD is a standard term, but I'm still a bit suspicious that it's not a useful one; Psychiatry doesn't seem like the most reliable field
Okay, I know this is going to sound weird, but I ...
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Why ADHD instead of ADD? / Why predominantly hyperactive-impulsive instead of predominantly-impulsive?
ADHD used to be called just ADD in DSM-III (released in 1980), with the subtypes ADD/H (ADD with hyperactivity) and ADD/WO (ADD without hyperactivity). However, by 1987 when DSM-III-R was published, ...
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Is ADHD defined too loosely?
Snippet from https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html (emphasis mine):
DSM-5 Criteria for ADHD
People with ADHD show a persistent pattern of inattention and/or
hyperactivity–...
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Beyond CBT and MBI, what are effective behavioral interventions for modern lifestyle addictions during their engagement?
Alas there's not much in the way of interventions that can curb impulsivity on the spot. Quoting from a somewhat dated but widely cited review, Moeller et al., 2001:
Of the operant therapies used ...
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Can the effectiveness of antidepressants be explained by a placebo effect?
Let me supplement Alice's nice answer with a few more points. Regarding
there are antidepressants that do not enhance serotonin but suppress it.
That seems to be tianeptine; it is often brought ...
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What is the most effective treatment for ADD and ADHD that excludes chemical prescriptions from a doctor?
Not an expert on the field, but neuro feedback seems to be even more effective than drugs, in particular regarding the long term benefits. Here I cite an additude article which summarized four studies....
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What is the most effective treatment for ADD and ADHD that excludes chemical prescriptions from a doctor?
It seems that things like aerobic exercise and mindfulness meditation can help alleviate some of the symptoms of ADHD. Aerobic exercise, in particular, helps increases many of the neurotransmitters ...
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What is the most effective treatment for ADD and ADHD that excludes chemical prescriptions from a doctor?
Not much seems to work; psychotherapy appears questionable when the patients are re-evaluated by someone else. The only thing with a minor but generally applicable effect is free fatty acid ...
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Treatment and strategies for procrastination for ADHD
The problem with this question is that procrastination has many components and is not an explicit diagnostic category of ADHD. As the result, finding evidence for a phenomenon that is poorly described ...
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Causality regarding neurotransmitter imbalance and depression
I have what is mostly a frame-challenge to your question as an answer: the simple "neurotransmitter imbalance" hypothesis is a bit outdated, and it hasn't been strongly influential in a research ...
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The mechanism behind the ADHD?
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. The exact etiology of ADHD remains unclear. ...
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Does consumption of amino acid supplements improve human executive function and self-regulation in ADHD cases?
There's a recent negative study: Bergwerff et al. (2016) "No Tryptophan, Tyrosine and Phenylalanine Abnormalities in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder":
This study is the ...
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