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by dboreham 1958 days ago
I'm fairly sure I've seen tv drug ads in the past few years use the phrase "chemical imbalance".
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They have a clear incentive to exaggerate a) the effectiveness of the drugs, and b) how well they understand how they work. There is an important distinction between knowing how drugs affect brain chemistry, vs knowing how they alleviate symptoms. The latter is still more empirical than theoretical.