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| | Depression Issues |
 | | One group of 60 people received cognitive therapy, another group of 120 received antidepressant medication (usually Paxil), and a third group of 60 received a placebo pill. |
 | | According to University of Pennsylvania researchers, patients in the cognitive therapy group attended two 50-minute sessions a week for the first four weeks of the study. |
 | | After eight weeks of treatment, response rates were 50 percent in the medication group, 43 percent in the cognitive therapy group and 25 percent in the placebo group. |
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