The effect of placebo and neurophysiological involvements [PDF]
, 2004 Placebo and placebo effect are important issues related to the drug therapy for clinical and scientific meanings. The rates of placebo may get as many as 50% for analgesic drugs in headache. The high answer to placebo brings questions on pathophysiology
Galli, Federica +2 more
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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
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Antidepressant drugs and the response in the placebo group: the real problem lies in our understanding of the issue [PDF]
, 2012 In a recent paper, Horder and colleagues (Horder et al., 2010, J Psychopharmacol 25: 1277–1288) have suggested that the mainproblem in the Kirsch analysis is methodological. We argue that the results are similar irrespective of the method used.
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The Placebo Effect of Artificial Intelligence in Human-Computer Interaction [PDF]
, 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. Participants were asked to solve word puzzles while being supported by no system or an adaptive AI interface ...
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The Placebo Effect in Digital Games [PDF]
, 2015 Play-testing of digital games is a crucial part of any game development process, used to gather feedback about the game and correct any existing and potential flaws with the design.
Cairns, P., Denisova, A.
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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 1997 The placebo effect will have a growing importance in the field of nuclear medicine as the potentials for palliative therapy with internal sources are realized. It is important for nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues to be familiar with the role of placebo responses in clinical trials, especially when such trials involve the subjective ...
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Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in cancer patients : a four-arm randomized trial on the effectiveness of electroacupuncture [PDF]
, 2013 Purpose. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and dose-limiting side effect of cytostatic drugs. Since there are no proven therapeutic procedures against CIPN, we were interested to define the role of electroacupuncture (EA) from
Bartsch, Hans Helge +5 more
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Nonplacebo controls to determine the magnitude of ergogenic interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
, 2021 Introduction: Placebos are used as a control treatment that is meant to be indistinguishable from the active intervention. However, where substantive placebo effects may occur, studies that do not include a non-placebo control arm may underestimate the ...
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Effect of multivitamin and multimineral supplementation on cognitive function in men and women aged 65 years and over : a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2007 Background: Observational studies have frequently reported an association between cognitive function and nutrition in later life but randomised trials of B vitamins and antioxidant supplements have mostly found no beneficial effect.
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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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