Mental Health https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk CMVM Psychiatry at work Tue, 31 May 2016 07:51:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Clinical trials for mental illness – to see if treatments work https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/05/clinical-trials-for-mental-illness-to-see-if-treatments-work/ https://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/2015/05/clinical-trials-for-mental-illness-to-see-if-treatments-work/#comments Wed, 20 May 2015 18:17:44 +0000 http://mentalhealth.mvm.ed.ac.uk/?p=70 How do we know that any treatment for mental illness works?

The same as in the rest of Medicine – from the results of randomised controlled trials.

Uncontrolled trials

The simplest way to see if a treatment works is just to give it to some patients. An uncontrolled trial can … Continue reading →

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It is World ECT protest day on Sat 16th May 2015 and no doubt the usual hoary old myths about ECT being ineffective and causing brain damage will abound. Electro-convulsive treatment, or therapy, is abbreviated to ECT either way. Even though some call it Electro-Shock Treatment, they still call … Continue reading →

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