#placebo-effects

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fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

A brain-based AI test could point to the best antidepressant for you - Silicon Canals

Before treatment began, participants underwent neuroimaging. Instead of relying on a single modality, the researchers fused structural connectivity (how regions are physically wired) with functional connectivity (how regions co-activate at rest). The goal was not to throw every possible feature at a black box, but to learn a constrained pattern-what the authors call structure-function "covariation"-that carries the most predictive signal for outcome. In other words, the model tries to find the smallest set of connections that meaningfully forecasts symptom change.
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fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

How Scientists Finally Learned to Measure the Placebo Effect

Placebo effects can produce real, substantial improvements that make it difficult to determine whether depression treatments produce true therapeutic effects.
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