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Feeling Smarter and Smarter has thus far highlighted the dramatic improvements possible when dyslexics are properly understood, diagnosed, and medically treated. These improvements, typical of many thousands, have been presented to you through the personal accounts volunteered by my many patients and/or their loved ones.
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Some chemical substances may have overlapping Group I and Group II functioning.
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Clearly, placebos invariably play a role in med and other therapies. And as you will have by now seen, any role they play must involve the CVS as must non-placebo responses—since they superficially trigger similar outcomes. And the overall favorable response factor in placebo effects appears to vary significantly with the meds and their chemical/therapeutic categories. Although I have come to clinically recognize this role to be minimal in cases not anticipating favorable responses, only future double-blind studies using a method I have devised will clarify this issue.
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No doubt, readers will now better understand my prior footnotes in both this and Chap. 5, critiquing a triple-blind study using only one dose of one drug for all dyslexic subjects and attempting to draw reliable conclusions based only on reading score performance after three months of meclizine treatment. Although the researcher, Fagan, was told all about the above drawbacks and advised as to the study’s best design, he chose to proceed as he initially thought best. As a psychoanalyst, I can only wonder why he came to seek my advice. And why he chose to ignore it.
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Percept Mot Skills, 73, 723–38. Levinson, H. N. (1991). pg 736. This study design was offered Fagan, although he declined—no doubt favoring one he initially thought best, despite a complete absence of understanding dyslexia or of the complex intricacies involved in my medical treatment. These many and diverse unanticipated insights occurred slowly over many decades. Thus, his results were doomed to be misleading at best. And they were.
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Levinson, H.N. (2019). Real Smart Drugs and Treatment. In: Feeling Smarter and Smarter. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16208-5_21
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