THE VIDEO SHELF · antidepressants and placebo
Irving Kirsch: The Emperor's New Drugs
Psychologist Irving Kirsch gives a distinguished lecture on antidepressant trials and the placebo effect. He argues drug-placebo differences are small outside severe depression.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it in discussions of antidepressant efficacy, the serotonin model and the power of placebos.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mizzou Visual Productions
- Topic
- antidepressants and placebo
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If you're ever board and you want to watch something on placebos I highly recommend watching this lecture by Dr. Irving Kirsch. Placebos are pretty nuts and probably really undervalued. [VIDEO]
leekyle333 on Hacker News · 2018-10
In FDA approves new drug to treat influenzaSince here we are talking about placebo, I wonder if it has a meaning to say "placebo" when speaking about psychotherapy, since there is no "substance". Of course there is going to be a placebo effect as long as people think it's going to work. …
q3PG23XiQKpZqpU on Hacker News · 2019-05
In The Troubled History of Psychiatry
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