Interestingly, Hobson has reservations about
common pharmacological interventions in brain function.
Not exact matches
While major depressive disorder is one of the most
common mental disorders in children and adolescents, the use of
pharmacological intervention to treat it remains controversial.
In the following sections, we first provide an overview of treatment effects of non-
pharmacological and
common pharmacological treatments compared with inactive
interventions.
Sixteen systematic reviews provided data on 17 comparisons with inactive
interventions (placebo, sham
interventions or waiting list).30 — 32 35 — 37 39 — 43 45 — 50 figure 2 provides an overview of treatment effects of non-
pharmacological and
common pharmacological treatments for MDD when compared with inactive
interventions using standardised mean differences.