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Placebo

Der Schmerz, 2000
The placebo reaction is a widely known phenomenon but the way it develops is not fully understood. This fact has given rise to numerous misinformed opinions on this subject.More research has been done in the field of placebo analgesia, where the involvement of the endogenous opioid systems was discovered some twenty years ago.
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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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Placebos and Metaphors

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2023
ABSTRACT: The objective of this essay is to develop the argument that placebos are a species of metaphor and to demonstrate that an analysis of the figurative trope can help us elucidate the power of the placebo response. The cognitive and embodied responses to both metaphors and placebos stem from the transfer of meaning between two domains, each with
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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 ...
Paul, Enck, Sibylle, Klosterhalfen
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The placebo effect

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 1997
The placebo effect will have a growing importance in the field of nuclear medicine as the potentials for palliative therapy with internal sources are realized. It is important for nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues to be familiar with the role of placebo responses in clinical trials, especially when such trials involve the subjective ...
M J, Heeg, K F, Deutsch, E, Deutsch
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Placebo analgesia

Neurological Sciences, 2006
The placebo effect is the effect that follows the administration of an inert treatment (the placebo), be it pharmacological or not. It is important to understand that a placebo procedure simulates a therapy through the surrounding psychosocial context.
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Placebo et effet placebo

Annales Pharmaceutiques Françaises, 2005
Resume Le mot placebo est apparu pour la premiere fois dans un dictionnaire medical anglais en 1785. En France, il faudra attendre 1958 ! Ce terme designe a la fois un outil experimental permettant, par comparaison, l’evaluation rigoureuse de l’effet specifique d’un traitement et un effet non specifique inherent a toute therapeutique. Recemment remis
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Placebo Effects Without Placebos? More Reason to Abandon the Paradoxical Placebo

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2009
When Miller and Colloca (2009) say that, “The placebo effect is a real neurobiological phenomenon” (4), they imply that placebos can be distinguished from non-placebos at some fundamental level.
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[Placebo and placebo effect].

Annales pharmaceutiques francaises, 2006
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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The Placebo Effect

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1985
To the Editor.— Drs Kramer and Shapiro 1 give some valuable guidelines to improving the quality of research in their article, "Scientific Challenges in the Application of Randomized Trials," in the Nov 16, 1984, issue ofThe Journal. However, I'm afraid they perpetuate some of the misunderstandings concerning the nature of the placebo effect and its ...
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