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Causal diagrams, the placebo effect, and the expectation effect

International Journal of General Medicine, 2013
Eyal Shahar,1 Doron J Shahar2 1Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, 2Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: Using causal diagrams, a formal ...
Shahar E, Shahar DJ
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Placebo effect of an inert gel on experimentally induced leg muscle pain. [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose: This study examined the therapeutic effects of an inert placebo gel on experimentally induced muscle pain in a sports therapy setting. It aimed to investigate the degree to which conditioned analgesia, coupled with an expectation of intervention,
Coleman, Damian A, Beedie, C., Leach, G., Foad, A., Hopker, James G.   +4 more
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Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data [PDF]

, 2021
The brain systems underlying placebo analgesia are insufficiently understood. Here we performed a systematic, participant-level meta-analysis of experimental functional neuroimaging studies of evoked pain under stimulus-intensity-matched placebo and ...
Leknes, S., Schenk, L., Benedetti, F., Zunhammer, M., Choi, J., Büchel, C., Kaptchuk, T., Müllner-Huber, A., Wagner, T., Kong, J., Wrobel, N., Ellingsen, D., Kirsch, I., Lamm, C., Lui, F., Schmid, J., Theysohn, N., Colloca, L., Tracey, I., Porro, C., Zeidan, F., Duzzi, D., Spisák, T., Kessner, S., Rütgen, M., Eippert, F. ; https://orcid.org/, Bingel, U., Elsenbruch, S., Geuter, S., Atlas, L.   +29 more
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The placebo response rate and nocebo events in obesity pharmacological trials. A systematic review and meta-analysis

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: There is a growing number of trials examining the effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for obesity, however, little is known about placebo and nocebo effect in these trials. Hence, we sought to examine the effect of placebo in obesity
Yip Han Chin, Cheng Han Ng, Nicholas WS Chew, Gwyneth Kong, Wen Hui Lim, Darren Jun Hao Tan, Kai En Chan, Ansel Tang, Daniel Q Huang, Mark Y Chan, Gemma Figtree, Jiong-Wei Wang, Asim Shabbir, Chin Meng Khoo, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Dan Yock Young, Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui, Mazen Noureddin, Arun Sanyal, David E. Cummings, Nicholas Syn, Mark Dhinesh Muthiah   +21 more
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Not a Placebo, but Is It Effective? [PDF]

Pain Medicine, 2013
Randomized, placebo-controlled studies are a rare commodity in interventional pain medicine. Pain Medicine , is therefore, pleased to publish such a study, in which Kappural et al. report their results of transdiscal biacuplasty for the treatment of chronic low back pain ⇓. Publication recognizes that a study was methodologically sound.
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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, Adish, Ezatagha, Anamaria, Dascalu, Vladimir, Vuksan   +3 more
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The ethics of placebos

South African Family Practice, 2013
The word “placebo”, first used during funeral ceremonies in the 14th century, is derived from old Latin and means “I shall please”. At the time, it was practice among Roman Catholics to hire professional mourners to wail vespers for the dead.
Donna Knapp van Bogaert, Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo   +1 more
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Placebo use in the United Kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners [PDF]

, 2013
Objectives: Surveys in various countries suggest 17% to 80% of doctors prescribe ‘placebos’ in routine practice, but prevalence of placebo use in UK primary care is unknown.Methods: We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of ...
Heneghan, C, Stevens, Sarah, Wolstenholme Jane, Hobbs, Richard, Stevens, S, Louhiala, Pekka, Sarah Stevens, Hemilä, Harri, Bishop, F.L, George Lewith, Hobbs F. D. Richard, Wolstenholme, Jane, Wolstenholme, J, Bishop, FL, Hobbs, F.D.R., Carl Heneghan, Stevens Sarah, Howick, Jeremy, Jeremy Howick, Lewith, George T., Felicity L Bishop, F D Richard Hobbs, Heneghan, C., Wolstenholme, J., Bishop Felicity L., Howick, J, Howick, J., Howick Jeremy, Heneghan Carl, Hobbs, FD, Lewith, G, Puustinen, Raimo, Lewith George, Jane Wolstenholme, Heneghan, Carl   +34 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
J. Hamberger, K. Meissner, T. Hinterberger, T. Loew   +3 more
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Improved 1000-m Running Performance and Pacing Strategy With Caffeine and Placebo: A Balanced Placebo Design Study. [PDF]

, 2019
Purpose: To investigate the placebo effect of caffeine on pacing strategy and performance over 1000-m running time trials using a balanced placebo design.
Roelands, Bart, Roelands, B., Hurst, Philip, Schiphof-Godart, l., Beedie, C., Hettinga, F., Hurst, P., Hettinga, Florentina, Schiphof-Godart, Lieke, Beedie, Christopher   +9 more
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