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The placebo effect [PDF]

open access: possibleResonance, 2010
We discuss the placebo effect and its role in masking the effects of a drug. That is why every allopathic drug on the market has to pass through a placebo-controlled trial. Homeopathy is based on an unscientific premise and, not surprisingly, no homeopathic drug has successfully undergone such a trial.
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Placebo et effet placebo

Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises, 2005
The word placebo appeared for the first time in an English medical dictionary in 1785. In French, it appeared much latter in 1958. This word defines an experimental tool used for rigourous evaluation of a specific effect of pharmacological treatment and the non specific effect of any therapy.
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The Neurobiology of Placebo Effects

2018
The placebo effect is a psychobiological phenomenon whereby treatment cues trigger improvement. While traditionally viewed as a nuisance variable to be controlled for, the past three decades have seen a surge in interest in the placebo effect in light of some remarkable clinical and laboratory discoveries that have demonstrated its potential power to ...
Frisaldi E, Barbiani D, Benedetti F
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Differences in placebo effects

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 1977
Constant volume injections of water and saline were evaluated in terms of their effects upon locomotor activity in the rat. Both solutions produced an overall decrease in activity and were found to be nonequivalent in their effect.
W. Isaac, Walter Isaac
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Placebo Effects

2008
Abstract The book Placebo Effects: Understanding the Other Side of Medical Care examines the importance and the role of placebos across all medical conditions. This book offers a comprehensive description of all aspects of placebo research, a discipline that is now becoming a melting pot of concepts and ideas for medicine and ...
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Julia's placebo effect

Pain, 2010
Placebo analgesia is the occurrence of an analgesic drug effect without drugs. The response is learned through conditioning and mediated by expectancy. It lies on the up-regulation of the pain-modulating areas and the down-regulation of the pain-encoding regions.
Valeria Bachiocco   +1 more
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An Explanation for the Placebo Effect?

Science, 2005
The elegant computational model of addiction described by A. D. Redish in his Report “Addiction as a computational process gone awry” (10 Dec. 2004, p. [1944][1]) has the potential to provide an explanation for the placebo effect. In the temporal-difference reinforcement learning model (TDRL),
Kristopher J. L. Irizarry, Julio Licinio
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The Placebo Effect

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975
To the Editor.— I write to remark on your COMMENTARY (232:1225, 1975) from the standpoint of the pharmacist who can unknowingly nullify the desired placebo effect. A significant number of prescriptions are now paid for by third-party carriers (welfare departments and company insurance plans). These carriers will not pay for inert placebos; therefore,
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The placebo effect

BMJ, 2011
Varenicline is used as a smoking cessation aid. Its efficacy and safety were assessed by a double blind, placebo controlled, randomised controlled trial. In total, 213 participants were randomised to varenicline and 218 to placebo. Treatment was for 12 weeks, and participants were followed up for 14 weeks after treatment.1 The primary end point was ...
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Placebo effects in pain

2020
Placebo effects influence symptom perceptions and treatment outcomes. Placebo effects can be explored in laboratory settings controlling for natural history and expectations. Such a mechanistic approach to neurological disorders has been implemented in the domain of chronic clinical pain and other neurological disorders.
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