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The Placebo Effect

Survey of Ophthalmology, 1999
Placebos have been traditionally regarded as deceptive therapies and have not been understood in the broader context of social symbols and of interpersonal factors that surround the healing process itself. Although the power of inert substances to heal is well recognized, the placebo effect also influences the outcome of conventional therapies.
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The placebo effect

Seminars in Integrative Medicine, 2003
Abstract A placebo is an inert substance or a pseudo-therapeutic procedure believed to have no biological effect on health. Perplexed researchers and clinicians have observed powerful therapeutic effects experienced by patients receiving these inactive treatments.
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Placebos and the Placebo Effect in Drug Trials

2019
In this review, we explored different ways of controlling the placebo effects in clinical trials and described various factors that may increase/decrease the placebo effect in randomized placebo-controlled trials. These factors can be subdivided into four groups, and while not all factors are effective in every study and under all clinical conditions ...
Sibylle Klosterhalfen, Paul Enck
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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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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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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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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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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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