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The study participants who took the drugs and those who participated in the meditation program were evaluated at the end of eight weeks using the same clinical scale, and both groups showed about a 20% reduction in the severity of their symptoms. “The fact that we found them to be equal is amazing because now that opens up a whole new potential type of treatment,” Hoge says. Other researchers and clinicians who treat anxiety praised the study for similar reasons. “It does suggest that both treatments are helpful, and about equally so,” says Michael Mrazek, a research associate professor at the University of Texas, Austin and the co-founder of the Center for Mindfulness Human Potential at the University of California, Santa Barbara.