Healthy Skepticism Library item: 14909

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Publication type: Journal Article

Tyrer P, Kendall T.
The spurious advance of antipsychotic drug therapy
The Lancet 2009 Jan 3; 373:(9657):4-5
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)61765-1/fulltext

Abstract:

Clinicians are familiar with studies that claim to show major advances in therapy. They tend to greet early reports of such advances with a touch of scepticism and wait, usually for at least 10 years, for a raft of independent studies that show that the advance is genuine and not just another minor ripple in the treatment stream. In The Lancet today, Stefan Leucht and colleagues 1 deviate from this pattern by suggesting that what was seen as an advance 20 years ago-when a new generation of antipsych …