CBT vs Medication for Anxiety: What Head-to-Head Trials Actually Show
What head-to-head trials of CBT vs medication for anxiety actually show, why comparing them is harder than it sounds, and what the evidence leaves open.
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The Placebo Response in Anxiety Trials: How Large Is It and What Drives It?
How large the placebo response is in anxiety trials, what drives it, and why it matters for reading treatment results honestly.
What Does Exposure Therapy Actually Measure, and How Do We Know It Works?
How exposure therapy for anxiety is studied, what trials actually measure, and why researchers still debate the mechanism behind one of the best-supported treatments.
How Do Researchers Separate Correlation From Causation?
Correlation vs causation in anxiety research: why a link isn’t proof, and how follow-up studies, trials and genetic designs get closer to cause.
Journaling for Anxiety: What the Research Supports
What research shows about expressive writing and journaling for anxiety, what the original Pennebaker studies found, and why the effects are smaller than commonly claimed.
What Is the Difference Between a Plausible Mechanism and a Proven Benefit?
Why a plausible mechanism isn’t proof something eases anxiety: animal-to-human gaps, surrogate outcomes, and how GABA, magnesium and probiotics compare.
The Nocebo Effect in Anxiety Treatment: When Expecting Side Effects Makes Them More Likely
What the nocebo effect is, how large it is in anxiety medication trials, how it affects dropout and outcomes, and what informed consent approaches might reduce it.
Sleep and Anxiety: The Bidirectional Problem
How sleep and anxiety influence each other, why the causal direction is hard to establish, and what intervention studies show about breaking the cycle.
Therapist Effects: How Much Does the Person Delivering Treatment Matter?
How much treatment outcome depends on which therapist delivers it, what research shows about therapist variability, and what this means for anxiety treatment trials and practice.
Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety: Do One-Size-Fits-All Therapies Work?
What transdiagnostic treatments for anxiety are, the evidence from comparative trials, whether they match disorder-specific CBT, and what the practical trade-offs are.