Eduard Vieta
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, Head of the Psychiatry and Psychology Department at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, and researcher at the Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health (CIBERSAM)
This press release reflects the conclusions of a panel of experts on a paper published some time ago in the same journal which questioned the efficacy of antidepressants through the alleged lack of evidence for the involvement of serotonin in depression.
The panel's arguments are strong and reflect the prevailing view in the scientific community that the criticised work lacked scientific rigour and was biased by non-scientific aspects.
The authors of the commentary have identified the main methodological flaws in the original study and the biases in the interpretation of the results.
In my opinion, the journal Molecular Psychiatry, following the arguments of this commentary, should withdraw the original study, which did not have the necessary scientific quality to be published as a research paper.