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Individuals who did tolerate the treatment step or went into remission, were then encouraged to enter a 12-month naturalistic follow-up treatment phase, along with those who saw a marked improvement of symptoms or tolerance of the treatment.
Proof and counterexamples are the yin and yang of the natural sciences; maintaining a balance of observation that builds rigour in theories over time.
This study suggests that one’s response to stressful life events is in part determined by the genetics that code for serotonin transport.
This 2022 paper set out to conduct large meta-analyses to evaluate evidence around this hypothesis. 17 studies were included in the analysis and no results were synthesised from individual meta-analyses because they contained data from overlapping studies.
Statistical analysis allows the user to contextualise raw data into knowledge, separating significant outcomes from background noise. This allows policy makers and scientists to make decisions on the subsequent path of action, having been informed by the statistical analysis.
