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ReviewPLoS medicine2005

Serotonin and depression: a disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature.

Jeffrey R Lacasse, Jonathan Leo

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Review in PLoS medicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jeffrey R LacasseFlorida State University College of Social Work, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America.
Jonathan Leo

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdvertisingAntidepressive AgentsCommunity ParticipationDepressionHumansRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSelective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsSerotoninUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug AdministrationAntidepressive AgentsSelective Serotonin Reuptake InhibitorsSerotonin

Identifiers

PMID16268734
PMCPMC1277931

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.