In case you weren't sure - I'm kind of a big deal

[vanessa_world]

at least in my own head . . .

Its kind of weird, because I'm happy and all, but this still doesn't seem real.  It also turns out that something else got accepted, but we don't have a publication date just yet.

I feel like I should do something important like cure cancer or help the homeless or something.  Instead, I spent the day remembering why

Comments

[morfudd]

YAAAY!!!

[implodingfeet]

Congratulations, yo. Wish I were published.

[asianwill]

Yea to the being published! The MSCL-devotion is kinda creepy.

[holomorphic]

WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I feel like I should do something important like cure cancer or help the homeless or something.

Wait- you just did a study that will help move forward a promising treatment for acute bipolar depression- that doesn't count? Save the guilt trips for useless academics like me!

[vanessa_world]

The fact that you think this is a promising treatment shows your ignorance, I'm afraid to say. Basically, journals only publish positive studies and the results from this study use some murky statistics and the discussion conceals a one pound/week weight gain for patients taking the medication. Its a scary drug and the research took lots of money to not say anything new. So I repeat:
I feel like I should do something important like cure cancer or help the homeless or something.