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The Placebo Response

Journal of Mental Science, 1956
In recent controlled trials, conducted by the authors (1956), we were interested to note the proportion of patients improving with the administration of placebos. A placebo is defined in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary (1944) as “A medicine given more to please than to benefit the patient”.
R W, TIBBETTS, J R, HAWKINGS
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Placebo Response and Antidepressant Response

The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2007
Much of the response to an antidepressant is the result of placebo response. The placebo response embedded in drug response confounds studies seeking to identify brain mechanisms essential for pharmacologic response. Exclusion of patients who fail to meet entry criteria at the end of a placebo lead-in phase has been inadequate to reduce the effect of ...
George S, Alexopoulos   +5 more
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A Placebo Response

Physical Therapy, 1990
To the Editor: Lein et al, responding to Cameron's concern that they had not controlled for placebo effect, seem to miss the point ( Physical Therapy , December 1989, Letters to the Editor, pages 1118–1120). Lein et al say they “designed [their] study1 to advance another step,” based on “accepting the findings” of two studies2,3 in which, by their ...
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Placebo response and acquiescence

Psychopharmacologia, 1963
It was hypothesized that the magnitude of response of an individual to a placebo is positively related to his degree of suggestibility or motivation to be acquiescent. Seventy-two normal college students were studied while reacting to a placebo. A measure of acquiescence was obtained (Bass Social Acquiescence Scale) which is based on judgments of a ...
S, FISHER, R L, FISHER
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Placebo and cultural responses*

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
Features of placebo response in medicine have been forgotten and ignored over the last decade.To explore why patients do get better with placebo despite its perceived inertness.This lecture reviews the relation between illness perception, psychopharmacology and culture.Placebo response must be considered in the context of how patients perceive their ...
Ventriglio, Antonio   +4 more
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Placebos: A Review of The Placebo Response

American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000
Placebos have been a component of healing since the beginning. Whether consciously or unconsciously given, they are largely responsible for the success of medicine before randomized trials. Yet, even in this era of "evidence-based medicine," placebos remain enigmatic, and elicit mixed attitudes from divers disciplines.
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Placebo response, placebo effect, and two attributes

Psychopharmacology, 1979
Two putative predictors of placebo response were studied in three samples of psychiatric outpatients. Two groups, 73 university medical center patients and 56 college health service patients, underwent 1 week of placebo treatment. A quasi-control group of 112 patients receiving no medication waited about 1 week before beginning psychotherapy.
D M, McNair   +3 more
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Conditioned placebo responses.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1985
Following earlier animal research, we attempt to condition placebo effects in human subjects. Four groups of 8 voluntary subjects were told that the experimenters would test a powerful new analgesic cream over three sessions by assessing its ability to reduce experimentally induced pain. The analgesic cream was, in fact, a placebo. In the first session
N J, Voudouris, C L, Peck, G, Coleman
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The placebo response complex

Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2004
Abstract:  Placebo effects contribute to beneficial therapeutic responses and are common in anxiety and depressive disorders. It is posited that placebo effects are yielded by autonomous feeling‐toned complexes capable of re‐establishing background self‐states of well‐being.
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Placebo Response in Schizophrenic Outpatients

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1960
Introduction Placebo response has become a focus of much interest in psychiatric treatment. Not only have the values of the placebo in therapy and research been discussed, but its negative effects as well. Reports are present of placebos having emphatic adverse and structural effects on patients.
L D, HANKOFF   +2 more
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