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TranslationThe graph to the right describes a study of 80 patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Patients either got no treatment or were given a placebo pill.
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The Scientific World Journal, 2000 Nature and Science ran completely different news line-ups this week. But their lead stories agreed on one thing: patients matter. Nature led with a story about a group of patients who will share in a patent after giving blood and tissue samples to ...
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When the placebo effect is not an effect. [PDF]
Acta Orthop, 2021 In this issue of the journal, Rosen et al. report the results of a survey of surgeons regarding placebo effects.1 In particular, they show that surgeons consider “non-specific” effects (including a...
Harris I.
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2018 BackgroundIt is increasingly acknowledged that the outcomes of medical treatments are influenced by the context of the clinical encounter through the mechanisms of the placebo effect. The phenomenon of placebo analgesia might be exploited to maximize the
Gianluca Castelnuovo +63 more
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Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety. [PDF]
Front 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.
Kirsch I.
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Examining the 'cosmetics placebo effect'. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Previous studies have found a positive effect of cosmetics on certain behavioral measures, such as the tip given to waitresses by male patrons. These studies have employed confederates who usually wear cosmetics.
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The Placebo Effect of Artificial Intelligence in Human–Computer Interaction [PDF]
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2022 In medicine, patients can obtain real benefits from a sham treatment. These benefits are known as the placebo effect. We report two experiments (Experiment I: N = 369; Experiment II: N = 100) demonstrating a placebo effect in adaptive interfaces ...
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LISTENING TO THE PLACEBO, OR HOW TO FIND OUT WHY TREATMENTS WORK [PDF]
Papeles del Psicólogo, 2020 The placebo effect is powerful and has been proved effective in multiple studies, competing even with well-established treatments. It is absolutely not an unspecific or inert effect.
Miguel A. Vallejo Pareja +1 more
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Global Rheumatology, 2023 Interested in the therapeutic response that I usually predict in my chronically ill patients, I bring to the fore a phenomenon that is enigmatic in itself: the placebo effect.
Alberto Palacios-Boix
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Trials, 2021 Background Contextual effects (i.e., placebo response) refer to all health changes resulting from administering an apparently inactive treatment. In a randomized clinical trial (RCT), the overall treatment effect (i.e., the post-treatment effect in the ...
Sigurlaug H. Hafliðadóttir +6 more
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