by Nassir Ghaemi | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog posts
Summary of the canon of psychopharmacology So what does the canon of psychopharmacology teach us? An important lesson is that even though the studies were conducted outside the realm of the pharmaceutical industry, by academic centers and with government funding, in...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog posts
The conventional wisdom: STEP-BD for bipolar depression CATIE was the largest (about 1500 patients) and most ambitious of the three canons of psychopharmacology; it failed to show that most patients even stay on their medications for a year in schizophrenia. STAR*D...