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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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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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Are Individual Learning Experiences More Important Than Heritable Tendencies? A Pilot Twin Study on Placebo Analgesia

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Predicting who will be a placebo responder is a prerequisite to maximize placebo effects in pain treatment and to minimize them in clinical trials. First evidence exists that genetics could affect placebo effects.
Katja Weimer, Katja Weimer, Elisabeth Hahn, Nils Mönnikes, Ann-Kathrin Herr, Andreas Stengel, Andreas Stengel, Paul Enck   +7 more
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Placebo and the law of identification

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Thousands of essays and studies have been published on placebo and nocebo. Yet, despite this plethora of information, we are not much closer to a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental mechanism producing placebo and nocebo effects than we were ...
Steve F. Bierman, Andrew Weil, Stephen Dahmer   +2 more
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Drug*placebo interaction effect may bias clinical trials interpretation: hybrid balanced placebo and randomized placebo-controlled design

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might be biased.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah, Sophia J. S. De Padua   +5 more
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Patients’ experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study

BMC Psychology, 2022
Background There is increasing evidence suggesting that open-label placebo (OLP) is an effective treatment for several medical conditions defined by self-report.
Julia W. Haas, Giulio Ongaro, Eric Jacobson, Lisa A. Conboy, Judy Nee, Johanna Iturrino, Vikram Rangan, Anthony Lembo, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Sarah Ballou   +9 more
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Study of the placebo effect with a placebo test

Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1968
Summary This paper briefly reviewed several methodological problems in studies of the placebo effect. The importance of finding appropriate measures of placebo effect was emphasized. This led to an attempt to develop a more valid and reliable test of placebo reactivity.
A K, Shapiro, H, Wilensky, E L, Struening   +2 more
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Suggestive Preparation of Patients using Intravenous Ketoprofen as a Part of Postoperative Pain Management in Elective Abdominal Surgery

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023
Suggestive preparation before surgery may have a placebo effect and can reduce perioperative consumption of analgesics. A total of 77 adult patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy and hernioplasty were included in this prospective study.
Anja Petričević, Dino Budrovac, Ivana Lenz, Slavica Kvolik   +3 more
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A transferable anxiolytic placebo effect from noise to negative effect

, 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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Improving adaptive response to negative stimuli through non-emotional working memory training

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
People with high working memory (WM) capacity tend to respond proactively and experience a decrease in undesired emotions, implying the potential influence of WM training on emotional responses.
Quanshan Long, Linlin Yu, Yancheng Tang, Qing Li, Na Hu, Yan Gu, Antao Chen   +6 more
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