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hellohello911on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

I don't want to be patronized about the number of depression studies I have or have not read. Can you answer yes or no: does figure 3 support the study's conclusion?

hellohello911on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

Setting aside the psychedlic aspect, do you think figure 3 supports the study's conclusion?

hellohello911on Psilocybin produces substantial sustained decreases in depression and anxiety

Agreed. If I saw an SSRI with those curves I would doubt the efficacy of it. But this might be why I am not in charge of clinical trials. Just a layman taking pot shots.

hellohello911on Psilocybin produces substantial sustained decreases in depression and anxiety

Sure - but I don't see the authors mention group convergence anywhere.

While the first 5 week post treatment actually looks impressive, I don't think the treatment arms being essentially the same after 6 months supports the conclusions of the study. Unless we backpedal and say the inactive grouo was microdosing (which has its own baggage...)

hellohello911on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

Figure 3 is suspicious. Even the placebo arm has much better scores for depression and anxiety from baseline?