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by subungual 2391 days ago
This article is terrible and did the grave disservice of not mentioning the work that has been done on this front using rats. Obviously, we cannot ethically reproduce the RCTs in humans to establish cause and effect, but there's sufficient evidence to form hypotheses and spur investigation in humans. I'm having trouble finding the exact primary literature that I wanted to cite just now, but here are a couple of things worth looking over:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682215/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meaney