Pharmacogenomics and the Placebo Response [PDF]
There is perhaps no more important time in the history of placebos to consider their role in clinical trials and in medicine. Increasingly well-designed pharmaceutical and academic clinical trials testing promising and established drug and surgical interventions have failed to "beat" the placebo response.
Kathryn T, Hall +2 more
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Placebo Economics: A Systematic Review About the Economic Potential of Utilizing the Placebo Effect
Background: Recent research shows that placebo mechanisms can be utilized in ethical and legal ways such as in open-label conditions, when patients know that they receive placebos, and through psychological interventions aiming to optimize patients ...
Jens Hamberger +6 more
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Who responds to a placebo? Factors associated with response to placebo during a double-blind randomised controlled trial [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: The placebo effect, a desirable outcome resulting from a person’s expected and/or learned response to a treatment or situation, may significantly influence the interpretation of double-blind, randomised controlled trials (RCT). High placebo
Hurst, P., Coleman, D., Saunders, S.
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Mirroring everyday clinical practice in clinical trial design: a new concept to improve the external validity of randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials in the pharmacological treatment of major depression [PDF]
Background: Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials constitute the gold standard in clinical research when testing the efficacy of new psychopharmacological interventions in the treatment of major depression.
Berger Michael +29 more
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Dietary nitrate modulates cerebral blood flow parameters and cognitive performance in humans: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover investigation [PDF]
Nitrate derived from vegetables is consumed as part of a normal diet and is reduced endogenously via nitrite to nitric oxide. It has been shown to improve endothelial function, reduce blood pressure and the oxygen cost of sub-maximal exercise, and ...
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Placebo and the law of identification
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 +2 more
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Placebo response in depression
With its naturally fluctuating course, depression is a highly placebo-responsive condition: mean placebo response rates in antidepressant clinical trials are 30% to 40%. We review the history and terminology of placebo and the proposed mechanisms underlying the placebo response, including the physician-patient relationship and biological, sociocultural,
Shamsah B, Sonawalla +1 more
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Background: Research demonstrates that the placebo effect can influence the effectiveness of medical treatments and accounts for a significant proportion of healing in many conditions. However, providers may differ in the degree to which they consciously
Lauren C. Howe +2 more
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Placebo response in migraine [PDF]
Sir I am currently in the process of revising the Guidelines for Drug Trials in Migraine of The International Headache Society. While browsing the literature for information on the placebo response in migraine randomised clinical trials (RCTs), I read with interest the extensive meta-analysis on this subject published by Macedo et al.
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Capitalizing on the placebo component of treatments [PDF]
A placebo treatment is traditionally administered in a double-blind, randomized controlled trial to control for the ‘real’ effects of the treatment under investigation. In the present paper a broader view of the placebo is proposed, one in which the idea
Beedie, C., Hurst, P., Foad, A.
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