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Record W2107623262 · doi:10.1017/s1092852900001656

St. John's Wort:Clinical Status in Psychiatry

2001· article· en· W2107623262 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Samantha Meltzer‐Brody

Bibliographic record

VenueCNS Spectrums · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicNatural Compound Pharmacology Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHypericum perforatumHypericumHyperforinAntidepressantAnxietyHypericinPsychiatryMedicineDepression (economics)Generalized anxiety disorderTraditional medicinePharmacology

Abstract

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Depression and anxiety are among the top 10 health problems for which complementary and alternative therapies (CATs) are most frequently used, and medicinal herbs are among the most popular of these treatments. St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a perennial herb that has become a widely used depression therapy. Extracts of hypericum have shown affinity for receptors within multiple neurochemical systems. The primary active substance responsible for the antidepressant effect is not well defined, but most work has concentrated specifically on the hypericin and hyperforin components. Although hypericum has demonstrated significant antidepressant and antianxiety effects in multiple studies, there are several recent studies that do not support the previous evidence. In all reported studies, hypericum extracts have been well tolerated. In addition, new psychiatric uses for hypericum in obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, menopausal symptoms, and alcohol dependence have been reported. Because patients are choosing to pursue CAT as a first-line therapy, psychiatrists will need to have a better understanding of phytomedicines used for treating depression and anxiety, and thus be better prepared to serve as effective allies of their patients.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.134
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.283 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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