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Personal Growth -
Psychology
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Depression not easy to shake
Major depression often retreats only after patients have tried multiple drugs, and a large minority still have disabling symptoms even after using many medications, a landmark study suggests.
The good news from the federal study of 3,671 patients is about two-thirds were depression-free after trying up to four different combinations of drugs or therapy.
Only 37% went into remission after trying the first drug used, the
antidepressant Celexa, says the study leader, psychiatrist A. John Rush
of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
SEE THE STUDY: American Journal of Psychiatry abstract of the article
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as each new treatment was tried, it worked on fewer and fewer patients.
About a third did not go into remission, despite trying up to four
rounds of treatments. And many dropped out at each step, perhaps
because they were discouraged or disliked drug side effects. "But
persistence pays off," Rush says. "For those who hang in there,
recovery is possible."
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News Cellar -
Startup / Entrepreneurship
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Trusted Opinion provides friends’ recommendations — but watch for spam
By Dan Kaplan 07.27.07
 If
you’re skeptical of Amazon’s customer reviews and find that Netflix’s
recommendations are never quite right, you might check out Trusted Opinion.
The Palo-Alto, Calif, company believes that your friends’
recommendations on things such as books, restaurants and music events
should have more weight than those of the anonymous masses. The answer?
Yes, another social network.
Trusted Opinion today added the ability to instantly add a
recommended movie to your Netflix queue, an interesting touch,
considering that Netflix not an open system, and Trusted Opinion
expended significant effort to add this function.
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