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24 participants in the study (11 of which took valproic acid), and the linked article hailing the new wonder-drug doesn't even get its name right.
The article is crap but referring to the sample size without considering the baseline success rate is misleading. If, say, the task were to be creating a billion dollar company, and the treated group had even one success, then that would be quite serious evidence for an effect, just because of how rare success is.
As is usus, consider such data to be within expected parameters unless mentioned.