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Led by Dan Iosifescu, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai; Sanjay Mathew, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine; and James Murrough, MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai, the research team evaluated 72 people with treatment-resistant depression-meaning their depression has failed to respond to two or more medications-who were administered a single intravenous infusion of ketamine for 40 minutes or an active placebo of midazolam, another type of anesthetic without antidepressant properties.
The study used a low dose of MDMA as an active placebo and achieved a successful double-blind.
You could call antidepressants an active placebo because they are real, they are potent, and they have very long lists of adverse effects.
Participants were randomly selected to receive different combinations of vitamin C, vitamin E and a non active placebo.
The researchers tested injectable naltrexone XR in some 600 actively drinking, alcohol-dependent men and women who were given one of two doses of the drug or an active placebo every 4 weeks for 24 weeks.
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