Chow: Combining electrical stimulation with Zoloft outperforms either treatment alone for depression
Daniel Chow · a16z Podcast | The Future of... You · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:46
Daniel Chow of Halo Neuroscience discusses clinical study evidence regarding combinations of electrical stimulation and pharmaceuticals when asked about synergies in brain optimization.
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“There's a really interesting paper That came out about two years ago that looked at the treatment of major depression. And it's a two by two factorial design, 120 subjects, 30 in one of four groups. You either got electrical stimulation alone, or you got Zoloft alone, you got the two combined, or none at all. Electrical stimulation and Zoloft did about the same. So that's awesome, because you can use electrical stimulation as a potential replacement for a drug, but the two did better yet together.”
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