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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2005 Abstract Placebo, used here to mean an inert treatment given as if it was a real treatment, means lots of different things to different people. The structure of the article is that it begins by talking about the technical use of placebos in clinical trials, and the extent of the placebo response, then about the mechanism—“How does the ...
H J, McQuay, R A, Moore
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When a placebo is not a ‘placebo’: a placebo effect on postprandial glycaemia [PDF]
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2007 What is already known about this subject • Although placebo effects have been shown on subjective continuous variables such as pain, placebo effects on objective continuous variables remain uncertain.• The present, pilot, follow‐up investigation represents the first to assess a placebo effect on the objective continuous measurement of acute ...
John L, Sievenpiper +3 more
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Intralesional Bleomycin in Periungual Warts: A Prospective Randomised Controlled Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Periungual Warts (PW) are difficult to treat because of their challenging location, high recurrence rate and resistance to treatment. Bleomycin is a cheaper and readily available drug that has potential efficacy in treating warts, although ...
Kallolinee Samal +5 more
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Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021 Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) have been shown to be effective in the treatment of pain. Studies suggest that relationships with animals can have comparable qualities to relationships with humans and that this enables animals to provide social ...
Cora Wagner +8 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 The aim of this review is to evaluate the placebo effect in the treatment of anxiety and depression. Antidepressants are supposed to work by fixing a chemical imbalance, specifically, a lack of serotonin or norepinephrine in the brain.
Irving Kirsch
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Cancer‐associated mutations in endometriosis reframe a benign disease through molecular oncology
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review aims to comprehensively analyse cancer‐associated somatic mutations (CAMs) present in endometriotic lesions, emphasizing their biological roles, spatial distribution and implications for translational applications in medicine. By contextualizing a benign state within a genomic framework, this analysis seeks to establish its value as a ...
Clarissa Mujacic +15 more
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Placebo and Non-specific Effects in Reconsolidation-Based Treatment for Arachnophobia
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 The idea that maladaptive memories may be rendered susceptible to interference after reactivation raises the possibility of reactivating and neutralizing clinically-relevant emotional memories.
James W. B. Elsey, Merel Kindt
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