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The health economic potential of harnessing placebos in treatment of ADHD

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Placebo research investigated the underlying mechanisms of placebo effects, but they are rarely used to optimize treatments. Ethical and legal concerns have been raised, but research demonstrated that placebo mechanisms can be used without
J. Hamberger, K. Meissner, T. Hinterberger, T. Loew   +3 more
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Placebo interventions, placebo effects and clinical practice [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011
This article reviews the role of placebo interventions and placebo effects in clinical practice. We first describe the relevance of different perspectives among scientists, physicians and patients on what is considered a placebo intervention in clinical practice.
Klaus, Linde, Margrit, Fässler, Karin, Meissner   +2 more
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The brain activity of pain relief during hypnosis and placebo treatment

Journal of European Psychology Students, 2012
Placebo treatment and hypnosis are both examples of top-down regulation and are used to treat pain. However, it is unclear whether hypnosis produces anything more than a placebo effect when measuring brain activity changes.
Svetlana Kirjanen
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Are Individual Learning Experiences More Important Than Heritable Tendencies? A Pilot Twin Study on Placebo Analgesia

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Predicting who will be a placebo responder is a prerequisite to maximize placebo effects in pain treatment and to minimize them in clinical trials. First evidence exists that genetics could affect placebo effects.
Katja Weimer, Katja Weimer, Elisabeth Hahn, Nils Mönnikes, Ann-Kathrin Herr, Andreas Stengel, Andreas Stengel, Paul Enck   +7 more
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Improving adaptive response to negative stimuli through non-emotional working memory training

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
People with high working memory (WM) capacity tend to respond proactively and experience a decrease in undesired emotions, implying the potential influence of WM training on emotional responses.
Quanshan Long, Linlin Yu, Yancheng Tang, Qing Li, Na Hu, Yan Gu, Antao Chen   +6 more
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Patients’ experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study

BMC Psychology, 2022
Background There is increasing evidence suggesting that open-label placebo (OLP) is an effective treatment for several medical conditions defined by self-report.
Julia W. Haas, Giulio Ongaro, Eric Jacobson, Lisa A. Conboy, Judy Nee, Johanna Iturrino, Vikram Rangan, Anthony Lembo, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Sarah Ballou   +9 more
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Suggestive Preparation of Patients using Intravenous Ketoprofen as a Part of Postoperative Pain Management in Elective Abdominal Surgery

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023
Suggestive preparation before surgery may have a placebo effect and can reduce perioperative consumption of analgesics. A total of 77 adult patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy and hernioplasty were included in this prospective study.
Anja Petričević, Dino Budrovac, Ivana Lenz, Slavica Kvolik   +3 more
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Drug*placebo interaction effect may bias clinical trials interpretation: hybrid balanced placebo and randomized placebo-controlled design

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might be biased.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah, Sophia J. S. De Padua   +5 more
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Placebo and the law of identification

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Thousands of essays and studies have been published on placebo and nocebo. Yet, despite this plethora of information, we are not much closer to a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental mechanism producing placebo and nocebo effects than we were ...
Steve F. Bierman, Andrew Weil, Stephen Dahmer   +2 more
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What Is the Role of the Placebo Effect for Pain Relief in Neurorehabilitation? Clinical Implications From the Italian Consensus Conference on Pain in Neurorehabilitation

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, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Emanuele Maria Giusti, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Donatella Saviola, Samantha Gabrielli, Marco Lacerenza, Giada Pietrabissa, Giada Pietrabissa, Roberto Cattivelli, Roberto Cattivelli, Chiara Anna Maria Spatola, Chiara Anna Maria Spatola, Alessandro Rossi, Giorgia Varallo, Margherita Novelli, Valentina Villa, Francesca Luzzati, Andrea Cottini, Carlo Lai, Eleonora Volpato, Eleonora Volpato, Cesare Cavalera, Francesco Pagnini, Francesco Pagnini, Valentina Tesio, Lorys Castelli, Mario Tavola, Riccardo Torta, Marco Arreghini, Loredana Zanini, Amelia Brunani, Ionathan Seitanidis, Giuseppe Ventura, Paolo Capodaglio, Guido Edoardo D’Aniello, Guido Edoardo D’Aniello, Federica Scarpina, Andrea Brioschi, Matteo Bigoni, Lorenzo Priano, Lorenzo Priano, Alessandro Mauro, Alessandro Mauro, Giuseppe Riva, Giuseppe Riva, Daniele Di Lernia, Claudia Repetto, Camillo Regalia, Enrico Molinari, Enrico Molinari, Paolo Notaro, Stefano Paolucci, Giorgio Sandrini, Giorgio Sandrini, Susan Simpson, Susan Simpson, Brenda Kay Wiederhold, Santino Gaudio, Jeffrey B. Jackson, Stefano Tamburin, Fabrizio Benedetti   +63 more
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