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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2023

The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported?

Joanna Moncrieff, Ruth E Cooper, Tom Stockmann, Simone Amendola, Michael P Hengartner, Martin Plöderl, Mark A Horowitz

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Joanna MoncrieffDivision of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK. j.moncrieff@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1214-6974
Ruth E CooperNIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Tom StockmannPraevmedic, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9954-1234
Simone AmendolaDepartment of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1950-4351
Michael P HengartnerDepartment of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2956-2969
Martin PlöderlUniversity Clinic of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Mark A HorowitzDivision of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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DepressionSerotoninSerotonin

Identifiers

PMID37322064

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