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Psychedelic therapy no more effective than antidepressants, study finds, with benefits likely due to unblinded trial design.
A new study finds psychedelic-assisted therapy is no more effective than traditional antidepressants for treating depression, with researchers attributing earlier perceived benefits to the lack of blinding in trials.
Comparing psychedelic trials to open-label antidepressant studies, scientists observed only a 0.3-point difference on a 52-point scale—clinically insignificant.
The study, led by researchers from UC San Francisco, UCLA, and Imperial College London, suggests that knowing one is receiving an active treatment may inflate results, particularly for placebos.
While both approaches improved depression scores by about 12 points, the findings challenge claims of psychedelic superiority and highlight the need for more rigorous, blinded trials to determine true effectiveness.
La terapia psicodélica no es más eficaz que los antidepresivos, según el estudio, con beneficios probablemente debido al diseño del ensayo sin ciego.