Category Archives: JAMA Psychiatry
Authors retract, replace highly cited paper on ADHD in kids
Authors retract, replace highly cited JAMA Psych paper for “pervasive errors”
Authors have retracted a highly cited JAMA Psychiatry study about depression after failing to account for some patient recoveries, among other mistakes. It’s a somewhat unusual notice — it explains that the paper has been retracted and replaced with a new, corrected version. The study, which included 452 adults with major depressive disorder, concluded that cognitive therapy […]
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Journal retracts — and republishes — small study on gamma rays for OCD
JAMA Psychiatry has retracted and republished a paper on a cutting-edge procedure for patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. In the original paper, the authors claimed that three out of eight patients who underwent a procedure that used gamma rays to kill brain cells showed improvements 12 months later (versus zero in the group who underwent a “sham” procedure). But […]
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