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Causal diagrams, the placebo effect, and the expectation effect [PDF]

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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A transferable anxiolytic placebo effect from noise to negative effect [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The placebo effect in relieving negative emotion arousal is poorly understood.Aims: We examined whether placebo expectation established with noise stimuli could have a transferable anxiolytic effect on negative emotion arousal.Methods: In ...
Zhang, Jianxin, Zhang, Wencai, Yuan, Lizhuang, Zhao, Yili, Luo, Jing, Guo, Jianyou   +5 more
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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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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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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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Informed consent and placebo effects: a content analysis of information leaflets to identify what clinical trial participants are told about placebos [PDF]

, 2012
BackgroundPlacebo groups are used in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) to control for placebo effects, which can be large. Participants in trials can misunderstand written information particularly regarding technical aspects of trial design such as ...
Alison E. M. Adams (317941), George T. Lewith (317942), Kaptchuk, Ted J., Ted J Kaptchuk, Ted J. Kaptchuk (234474), Bishop Felicity L., Lewith George T., Adams, Alison E. M., Kaptchuk, Ted, Bishop, Felicity L., Felicity L. Bishop (317940), Adams Alison E. M., Alison E M Adams, Kaptchuk Ted J., Lewith, George, Lewith, George T., Felicity L Bishop, Adams, Alison E.M., George T Lewith   +18 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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