i believe this is taking a little bit too far. it’s about actually measuring/quantifying the effects. when this is hard/really expensive to do I’m sure the decision not to pursue it is made at several levels. in research (and especially in cutting edge research) you don’t get to explore everything and you have to carefully pick and choose what you do if you want to be around more than a few years.
Many modern studies have shown that not everything related to behavior is governed by the brain, some of it is offloaded to other subsystems. Seems to me that this should be considered when talking about the effect of medication on these behaviors, as the parent commenter pointed out.
Fair enough. This was the bit that caught my attention:
Alarmed, the couple turned to the study’s organisers. “They were very hostile. They said that the two couldn’t possibly be related, that he needed to keep taking the medication, and that he should stay in the study,” says Golomb.
