about pro- or anti- medication rhetoric

Clinical Depression Update, yes, Clinical

“Both tricyclic antidepressants and SSRIs are effective for depression treated in primary care” (not massively effective I hasten to add, but it’s something) while the exercise one concluded that “Exercise seems to improve depressive symptoms in people with a diagnosis of depression, but when only methodologically robust trials are included, the effect sizes are only moderate and not statistically significant…”

from a neuroscientist studying antidepressants for a living