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Ultra-overt therapy: a novel medical approach centered on patient consciousness

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Within the realms of human and artificial intelligence, the concepts of consciousness and comprehension are fundamental distinctions. In the clinical sphere, patient awareness regarding medication and its physiological processes plays a crucial role in ...
Kamran Shirbache, Amirreza Liaghat, Sanam Saeifar, Ahmadreza Nezameslami, Ali Shirbacheh, Hamid Nasri, Hamidreza Namazi   +6 more
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The placebo effect revisited – author response

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012
Our randomized controlled trial showed a reduction of neck/shoulder pain and headache in response to 10 weeks of resistance training performed for 2 minutes a day (1, 2).
Lars L Andersen
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Increasing effort without noticing: A randomized controlled pilot study about the ergogenic placebo effect in endurance athletes and the role of supplement salience. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
PurposePrevious research shows that endurance performance can be enhanced by placebo ergogenic aids. This study investigates the ergogenic placebo response, which we define as an increase in objective and physiological effort without an increase in ...
Ellen K Broelz, Sebastian Wolf, Patrick Schneeweiss, Andreas M Niess, Paul Enck, Katja Weimer   +5 more
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The relation of emotions to placebo responses [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011
The hypothesis put forth is that expectations of treatment effects reduce negative emotions and thereby reduce symptoms, e.g. pain. Negative emotions increase pain, and it is hypothesized that placebos reduce pain by reducing negative emotions, i.e. feelings of nervousness, fear and anxiety.
Magne Arve, Flaten, Per M, Aslaksen, Peter S, Lyby, Espen, Bjørkedal   +3 more
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Magnitude, response, and psychological determinants of placebo effects in chronic low-back pain: a randomised, double-blinded, controlled trial

PAIN Reports, 2019
. Introduction:. Denervation of the lumbar zygapophyseal joints by medial branch radiofrequency neurotomy has shown some benefit in treating chronic low-back pain.
Damien Finniss, Michael Nicholas, Charles Brooker, Michael Cousins, Fabrizio Benedetti   +4 more
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Modulating Placebo Effects in Clinical Trials: Study Team Briefing to Optimize Drug–Placebo Differences

Clinical and Translational Science
Clinical trials often face challenges with placebo effects that can mask actual drug effects. We evaluated whether briefing the study team members on placebo mechanisms influenced analgesia.
Martin Coenen, Ulrike Bingel, Maria Soledad Berdaguer, Christine Fuhrmann, Robert Németh, Jens Rengelshausen, Gunther Hartmann, Christoph Coch, Manfred Schedlowski   +8 more
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Identifying placebo responders and predictors of response in osteoarthritis: a protocol for individual patient data meta-analysis

Systematic Reviews, 2016
Background The management of osteoarthritis (OA) is unsatisfactory, as most treatments are not clinically effective over placebo and most drugs have considerable side effects. On average, 75 % of the analgesic effect from OA treatments in clinical trials
Yu Fu, Monica S. M. Persson, Archan Bhattacharya, Siew-Li Goh, Joanne Stocks, Marienke van Middelkoop, Sita M. A. Bierma-Zeinstra, David Walsh, Michael Doherty, Weiya Zhang   +9 more
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Clinical response to placebo botulinum toxin injection in cervical dystonia—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Dystonia
BackgroundCervical dystonia is the most common form of focal dystonia and is the most studied neurological condition in patients receiving botulinum toxin.
Emma Wetmore, Henry Roberts, Alicia A. Livinski, Terance Camacho, Chyanne Eaton, Gina Norato, Mark Hallett, Mark Stacy   +7 more
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Placebo response in pharmacological and dietary supplement trials of autism spectrum disorder (ASD): systematic review and meta-regression analysis

Molecular Autism, 2020
Background Placebo response in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might dilute drug-placebo differences and hinder drug development. Therefore, this meta-analysis investigated placebo response in core symptoms.
Spyridon Siafis, Oğulcan Çıray, Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Irene Bighelli, Marc Krause, Alessandro Rodolico, Anna Ceraso, Giacomo Deste, Maximilian Huhn, David Fraguas, Dimitris Mavridis, Tony Charman, Declan G. Murphy, Mara Parellada, Celso Arango, Stefan Leucht   +15 more
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A systematic review of sex differences in the placebo and the nocebo effect

Journal of Pain Research, 2017
Sara M Vambheim,1 Magne Arve Flaten2 1Department of Psychology, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 2Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway Objectives: The present review ...
Vambheim SM, Flaten MA
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