Archive for August, 2006
Listed by most recent articles first.
- What Is the Investigator’s Responsibility if a Patient Has a Clinical Crisis?
You read earlier about the differences between clinical research and the care you receive from your personal doctor. In most research, an investigator will try to follow the research design: Following a research plan that ...
- What Is a “Placebo Control” in a Medication Trial?
Studies of new drugs often compare the effects of an investigational drug with the effects of a placebo. If you are considering whether to take part in a drug trial, the director of the study ...
- How Are Clinical Studies of Mental Disorders Designed?
Clinical researchers call the standard scientific approach for trying out treatments a double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial. Understanding this term, and knowing how and why this approach is used, should help you to decide whether ...
- How Will Treatment in a Clinical Research Study Differ from Treatment Your Own Doctor Provides?
Clinical research often involves providing treatment. Yet, treatment research is different from the care that you would get from your own doctor. Usually, when you go to a doctor, you want help with a particular ...
- What Is Mental Health Clinical Research?
Scientists study and try different ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent human disease more effectively. The needed research may take place in a basic science laboratory, a clinic, or in the community.
In mental health clinical ...
- Why Do Patients Participate in Research on Mental Disorders?
Although remarkable progress has been made in defining and treating mental illnesses, some treatments are not effective for all persons or may have significant side effects. Thus, most people who agree to take part in ...
- A Guide to Mental Health Clinical Research
Through the ages, disorders of the mind have been among the most devastating and feared illnesses of humanity. Today, thanks to ambitious and productive research on mental illnesses and to the willingness of many persons ...
- Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Many of us know and grew up with Brooke Shields, even as she grew older in front of us on the big screen (in mostly forgettable roles), and then later on television in the ...
