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domingo, 14 de janeiro de 2018

Brain Implants: Spinning the Trial Results to Protect the Product

https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/01/brain-implants-spinning-trial-results-protect-product/

Brain Implants: Spinning the Trial Results to Protect the Product

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Two years ago, I wrote an article for MIA about an experimental clinical trial called The Broaden Trial. It was, and perhaps still remains, the largest clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of deep brain stimulation for depression. The trial had been terminated in 2013, due to a low 17% success rate among at least 75 patients that received the controversial brain implant. But the public was given no additional details from the sponsor about the trial’s protocols, or the outcome of at least 128 people that had enrolled in this risky experimental study.
In October, 2017, I received an email from Jim,* one of the three trial participants I interviewed in 2015. “Finally, they published a report!” Jim wrote.

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