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Medication effects not addressed

Posted by kofi on 09 Dec 2012 at 17:18 GMT

The chronic patients used in this study would presumptively have been taking various psychotropic medications as part of their treatment, quite possibly for long periods of time. Animal studies have shown various effects of these drugs on brain morphology. What measures were taken to ensure that the differences in brain regions were the result of illness and not drug use?

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