Synopsis
Medical doctors discuss the problem with many drug trials and the issue of the file drawer effect of not publishing negative trials.
- Programme: All in the Mind
- Episode: Drug Trials - Schizophrenia - Smokers' Brains
- Channel: BBC Radio 4
- Broadcast year: 2008
- Psychology | The medical model | The biochemical explanation of mental illness
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