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Introduction to Serotonin Toxicity

  • Post author:Sophie Duncan
  • Post category:Serotonin Toxicity
  • Post published:4 May 2025
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThis introductory commentary outlines this complex topic, the features of the condition, the drugs that are capable of inducing it (with a genuinely evidence-based table), the patho-physiology, and medical management. The…

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The TCAs Overview and Update

  • Post author:Sophie Duncan
  • Post category:Antidepressants/TCAs
  • Post published:6 April 2025
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

AbstractThis commentary reviews the tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and their place in the treatment of depressive illness, updating information from my seminal review paper on their pharmacology (2007) with data from…

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RCTs: the great deception

  • Post author:Sophie Duncan
  • Post category:Bias in Science
  • Post published:30 November 2024
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

Gold-standard or fools-gold?Sigh no more, friends, sigh no more, RCTs were deceivers ever,One foot in SEs and one unsure, to science constant never*The deceptive dogma of RCTs as the gold…

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