It took me a while to slog through that whole long list of references at the end of the end of the article, but correlational study designs don't impress more by being numerous, especially when most of them are published in middling-to-lousy journals. That's what isn't fun about reading about medical issues here on Hacker News: too many of the articles kindly submitted here are of much too low quality to be worthy of our attention. There are some intriguing ideas in this opinion piece, but basically hardly anything there is backed up by experimental studies, not in a human study and not even in an animal study. The title of the article reflects an attempt to come up with a One True Cause of depression that surely is not the one true cause (most doctors who are experts in depression, or in inflammation, do NOT characterize depression as an "inflammatory disease") and then the article goes off the rails from there.
Check back when there is better established evidence about treatment. A better read about depression by a more informed physician would be a book review submitted recently to HN[1] that was hardly noticed when it was submitted.
Check back when there is better established evidence about treatment. A better read about depression by a more informed physician would be a book review submitted recently to HN[1] that was hardly noticed when it was submitted.
[1] http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/depression-re-examined-a...