If you read an article such as this below check out the sources and studies cited (if there are any). Some paragraphs have links some do not. There is no list of references at the end of the article. I have seen a number of articles on madinamerica where no sources are listed except to other articles or books written by the author. The sources should be original and the claims should be based on the whole body of scientific knowledge, all the studies, and the most current ones. If you want the most accurate information you have to be willing to do some foot work and research. Check the studies cited and then google all the studies there are on a specific claim.

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/09/...tidepressants/

For example I can show you where this statement from the article is totally not true. References "our article"


"is based on flawed evidence" is totally untrue. “Flawed evidence” refers to the original studies on the subject and how the methods used only showed cell proliferation (birth of cells) and not neurogenesis (cell maturation). However many subsequent studies have employed different methods that do show neurogenesis. The below article explains it well along with all the other studies listed below. So to me if an author misrepresents what all the evidence shows on a topic than I longer trust that author. I have seen Robert Whitaker misrepresent studies claiming something to be true when the authors of the study claim no such thing. This blows his credibility to me.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC400689/

Antidepressants do cause neurogenesis in the hippocampus and other parts of the brain. Neurogenesis, cell proliferation, cell maturity, cell migration, synaptogenesis, and differentiation into neurons and glial cells. Below is the proof.

Neurogenesis and antidepressants.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...is-depression/

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v3...npp20132a.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23303069

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121947/

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/20/24/9104.full

http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/news/the-f...genesis-theory

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21861813

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2013/805497/

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/publica...s14_sept15_03/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514842/

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Ne...l/12041101.asp

http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjourn...581-6/abstract

http://www.cell.com/trends/pharmacol...2814%2900165-5

http://www.biopsychiatry.com/newbraincell/

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v3...npp20135a.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC400689/

http://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full...ajp.160.8.1516

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...71489206001718

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0017600

http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v3/...tp201330a.html

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/5/1089.full.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15689544

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC400689/