An effect usually, but not necessarily, beneficial that is attributable to an expectation that the regimen will have an effect, i.e., the effect is due to the power of suggestion.
The use of mind to cure disease, particularly physical illness.
Any dummy medication or treatment. Although placebos originally were medicinal preparations having no specific pharmacological activity against a targeted condition, the concept has been extended to include treatments or procedures, especially those administered to control groups in clinical trials in order to provide baseline measurements for the experimental protocol.
The uncritical acceptance of an idea or plan of action.
Treatment of disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians. The placement varies with the disease being treated. It is sometimes used in conjunction with heat, moxibustion, acupressure, or electric stimulation.
A method of studying a drug or procedure in which both the subjects and investigators are kept unaware of who is actually getting which specific treatment.
Biological actions and events that support the functions of the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM.
Works about pre-planned studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects. This concept includes clinical trials conducted both in the U.S. and in other countries.
A state of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction, initially induced by the influence of another person.
Methods of PAIN relief that may be used with or in place of ANALGESICS.
The occupational discipline of the traditional Chinese methods of ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY for treating disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians.
Works about clinical trials that involve at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table.
Works about clinical trials involving one or more test treatments, at least one control treatment, specified outcome measures for evaluating the studied intervention, and a bias-free method for assigning patients to the test treatment. The treatment may be drugs, devices, or procedures studied for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic effectiveness. Control measures include placebos, active medicines, no-treatment, dosage forms and regimens, historical comparisons, etc. When randomization using mathematical techniques, such as the use of a random numbers table, is employed to assign patients to test or control treatments, the trials are characterized as RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC.
An unpleasant sensation induced by noxious stimuli which are detected by NERVE ENDINGS of NOCICEPTIVE NEURONS.
Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.
A disorder with chronic or recurrent colonic symptoms without a clearcut etiology. This condition is characterized by chronic or recurrent ABDOMINAL PAIN, bloating, MUCUS in FECES, and an erratic disturbance of DEFECATION.
A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.
Studies comparing two or more treatments or interventions in which the subjects or patients, upon completion of the course of one treatment, are switched to another. In the case of two treatments, A and B, half the subjects are randomly allocated to receive these in the order A, B and half to receive them in the order B, A. A criticism of this design is that effects of the first treatment may carry over into the period when the second is given. (Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.
A method in which either the observer(s) or the subject(s) is kept ignorant of the group to which the subjects are assigned.
A form of therapy that employs a coordinated and interdisciplinary approach for easing the suffering and improving the quality of life of those experiencing pain.
Any of several carnivores in the family CANIDAE, that possess erect ears and long bushy tails and are smaller than WOLVES. They are classified in several genera and found on all continents except Antarctica.
That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.

Placebo medication use in patient care: a survey of medical interns. (1/414)

The use of placebo medication, long recognized by clinicians, often has serious practical implications, such as patient deception. Past evidence has suggested that resident physicians tend to misuse placebo medication. Interns from two consecutive years of a residency program were surveyed anonymously to assess their knowledge and use of placebos. Of the 74 interns surveyed, 44 (59%) were familiar with placebo use in patient care. Fifty percent of these interns familiar with placebo use had learned about placebos from another physician. All interns who had learned about placebos during their internships had learned from another physician, whereas interns who had gained their knowledge of placebos as medical students were as likely to have learned from the medical literature as they were to have learned from a physician (P = 0.027). Interns aware of placebo use were more likely to consider placebo administration for suspected, factitious pain (P = 0.022). The present study uncovered no relationship between interns' estimations of placebo efficacy and the utility they attributed to placebos in assessing a complaint of pain. This suggests that conceptual inconsistencies underlie their use of placebos. Interns often learn of placebos as medical students and are influenced by physician-mentors. Placebo use in patient care is an area of attention for medical educators.  (+info)

Somatotopic activation of opioid systems by target-directed expectations of analgesia. (2/414)

We induced specific expectations of analgesia on four different parts of the body to understand how endogenous opioid systems are activated by expectancies. The left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot were simultaneously stimulated by means of a subcutaneous injection of capsaicin, which produces a painful burning sensation. Specific expectations of analgesia were induced by applying a placebo cream on one of these body parts and by telling the subjects that it was a powerful local anesthetic. In such a way, expectancy of the anesthetic effect was directed only toward the part on which the placebo cream was applied. We found that a placebo analgesic response occurred only on the treated part, whereas no variation in pain sensitivity was found on the untreated parts. If the same experiment was performed after an intravenous infusion of the opioid antagonist naloxone, this highly spatial-specific placebo response was totally abolished, indicating that it was completely mediated by endogenous opioid systems. These findings show that a spatially directed expectation of pain reduction is capable of inducing a specific effect only on the part of the body which is the target of the expectation. Most important, this specific effect is mediated by endogenous opioids, indicating that placebo-activated opioids do not act on the entire body but only on the part where expectancy is directed. This suggests that a highly organized and somatotopic network of endogenous opioids links expectation, attention, and body schema.  (+info)

Placebo effect in the treatment of duodenal ulcer. (3/414)

AIMS: To assess whether frequency of placebo administration is associated with duodenal ulcer healing. METHODS: A systematic literature review of randomized clinical trials was undertaken. 79 of 80 trials that met the inclusion criteria. The pooled 4 week placebo healing rate of all duodenal ulcer trials that employed a four times a day regimen was compared with the rate obtained from trials with a twice a day regimen. RESULTS: The pooled 4 week healing rate of the 51 trials with a four times a day regimen was 44. 2% (805 of 1821 patients) compared with 36.2% (545 of 1504 patients) in the 28 trials with a twice a day regimen (difference, 8.0% [equal effects model]; 95% confidence interval, 4.6% to 11.3%). Depending on the statistical analysis, the rate difference ranged from 6.0% (multivariable random effects model) to 8.0% (equal effects model). A number of sensitivity analyses showed comparable differences between the two regimens. Most of these sensitivity analyses were not significant, probably because a number of trials were excluded resulting in a loss of power. CONCLUSIONS: We found a relation between frequency of placebo administration and healing of duodenal ulcer. We realize that the comparison was based on nonrandomized data. However, we speculate that the difference between regimens was induced by the difference in frequency of placebo administration. A better knowledge of various placebo effects is required in order to make clinically relevant assessments of treatment effects derived from placebo-controlled trials.  (+info)

Pain relief with intracameral mepivacaine during phacoemulsification. (4/414)

AIM: To assess the efficacy and safety of an intraoperative intracameral injection of mepivacaine, administered when patients experienced pain during the course of cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia. METHODS: This is a prospective placebo controlled double masked randomised clinical trial. 50 eyes were included; 25 receiving the active compound and 25 receiving placebo. Mepivacaine (2%, 0.4 ml) or placebo was administered intraoperatively under the iris of the patients who experienced pain during the course of phacoemulsification in spite of previous topical anaesthesia. Efficacy was evaluated by the patients themselves using a five point subjective pain rating scale, the Keele verbal pain chart. Safety was measured by assessing intraocular inflammation (clinical evaluation and laser flare meter), intraocular pressure, and endothelial cell count. RESULTS: The pain rating score significantly diminished after intracameral injection in the mepivacaine group (mean 3.0 (95% CI 2.6-3.4) v 0.8 (0.3-1.3), p<10(-4))) while remaining unchanged in the placebo group (2.9 (2.6-3.2) v 2.9 (2.5-3. 3)), the mean reduction in pain score being significantly different between the two groups (p<10(-4)). There was no indication of increased postoperative ocular inflammation, intraocular pressure change, or endothelial cell loss. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that it may not be necessary to systematically add intracameral anaesthesia with topical anaesthesia for cataract surgery. An intraoperative intracameral injection, performed only in patients who happen to suffer during surgery, is safe and effective.  (+info)

The physician healer: ancient magic or modern science? (5/414)

The therapeutic role of general practitioners (GPs) is one that, over the years, has slowly diminished with the growing fashion for evidence-based medicine. However, it is clear that the art of healing and the strength of the doctor-patient relationship play a vital role in improving the well-being of patients. This is exemplified by the placebo effect, where the attitude of the doctor can make an appreciable difference to the psychological response of the patient who feels the need to be understood and listened to empathically. By maximizing the role of the physician healer, there is considerable scope for bridging the gap left by the impersonality of medical science, while at the same time increasing the GP's effectiveness.  (+info)

Effects of acupuncture on radial artery hemodynamics: controlled trials in sensitized and naive subjects. (6/414)

Palpation of the radial pulses is an important technique in traditional Chinese medicine. Two double-blind randomized trials of the effects of real and sham acupuncture on radial artery hemodynamics were conducted in 19 patients regularly exposed to acupuncture (sensitized subjects) and in 8 healthy subjects devoid of previous exposure (naive subjects), respectively. Radial artery diameter and pulse waveform were measured with a high-resolution echotracking system and aplanation tonometry, respectively, before and during a 20-min acupuncture period. In sensitized patients, arterial diameter significantly increased during real acupuncture, compared with the sham group (+7.5 +/- 2.8 vs. -2.9 +/- 2.7%, respectively; P < 0.01). By contrast, in naive subjects, arterial diameter did not change during real or sham acupuncture. In both populations, no significant difference was observed between real and sham acupuncture, concerning the time course of blood pressure, radial artery distensibility, and pressure waveform. Our results demonstrate that real acupuncture is associated with an objective vasodilatation of the radial artery in patients regularly exposed to acupuncture, but not in naive subjects.  (+info)

Unconventional dentistry: Part V. Professional issues, concerns and uses. (7/414)

This is the last in a series of 5 articles providing a contemporary overview and introduction to unconventional dentistry (UD) and its correlation to unconventional medicine (UM). UD and UM both present important concerns for health care professionals and for the general public. Professional concerns include risks to the practitioner and the patient. UD is of special concern because of the potential harm of invasive dental procedures. Nonetheless, because some UD practices may be of benefit to the patient, decision-making issues and guidelines for UD practice are suggested.  (+info)

Is the placebo powerless? An analysis of clinical trials comparing placebo with no treatment. (8/414)

BACKGROUND: Placebo treatments have been reported to help patients with many diseases, but the quality of the evidence supporting this finding has not been rigorously evaluated. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review of clinical trials in which patients were randomly assigned to either placebo or no treatment. A placebo could be pharmacologic (e.g., a tablet), physical (e.g., a manipulation), or psychological (e.g., a conversation). RESULTS: We identified 130 trials that met our inclusion criteria. After the exclusion of 16 trials without relevant data on outcomes, there were 32 with binary outcomes (involving 3795 patients, with a median of 51 patients per trial) and 82 with continuous outcomes (involving 4730 patients, with a median of 27 patients per trial). As compared with no treatment, placebo had no significant effect on binary outcomes (pooled relative risk of an unwanted outcome with placebo, 0.95; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.88 to 1.02), regardless of whether these outcomes were subjective or objective. For the trials with continuous outcomes, placebo had a beneficial effect (pooled standardized mean difference in the value for an unwanted outcome between the placebo and untreated groups, -0.28; 95 percent confidence interval, -0.38 to -0.19), but the effect decreased with increasing sample size, indicating a possible bias related to the effects of small trials. The pooled standardized mean difference was significant for the trials with subjective outcomes (-0.36; 95 percent confidence interval, -0.47 to -0.25) but not for those with objective outcomes. In 27 trials involving the treatment of pain, placebo had a beneficial effect (-0.27; 95 percent confidence interval, -0.40 to -0.15). This corresponded to a reduction in the intensity of pain of 6.5 mm on a 100-mm visual-analogue scale. CONCLUSIONS: We found little evidence in general that placebos had powerful clinical effects. Although placebos had no significant effects on objective or binary outcomes, they had possible small benefits in studies with continuous subjective outcomes and for the treatment of pain. Outside the setting of clinical trials, there is no justification for the use of placebos.  (+info)

The placebo effect is a psychological or psychophysiological phenomenon in which a person's symptoms improve following a treatment but this improvement is not attributable to the properties of the treatment itself. Instead, it is believed to be due to the mind's belief in the effectiveness of the treatment, often influenced by positive expectations and the ritualistic aspects of the therapy itself.

Placebos are often used in clinical trials as a control group to compare against the actual treatment. The placebo effect can make it challenging to determine whether an observed improvement is truly due to the treatment or other factors.

"Mental healing" is not a term that is widely used in modern medicine or psychiatry. However, it generally refers to the process of addressing and resolving psychological issues or emotional distress through non-pharmacological means, such as talk therapy, psychotherapy, or mindfulness practices.

In a broader sense, mental healing can also refer to the improvement of one's mental and emotional well-being through various holistic approaches, including self-care, stress management techniques, social support, and spiritual practices. These methods aim to help individuals develop coping skills, build resilience, and improve their overall quality of life.

It is important to note that while these approaches can be helpful in managing mental health symptoms, they should not replace evidence-based treatments for mental health conditions, such as medication or therapy with a licensed mental health professional.

A placebo is a substance or treatment that has no inherent therapeutic effect. It is often used in clinical trials as a control against which the effects of a new drug or therapy can be compared. Placebos are typically made to resemble the active treatment, such as a sugar pill for a medication trial, so that participants cannot tell the difference between what they are receiving and the actual treatment.

The placebo effect refers to the phenomenon where patients experience real improvements in their symptoms or conditions even when given a placebo. This may be due to psychological factors such as belief in the effectiveness of the treatment, suggestion, or conditioning. The placebo effect is often used as a comparison group in clinical trials to help determine if the active treatment has a greater effect than no treatment at all.

In a medical context, "suggestion" often refers to the act of proposing or recommending a treatment or course of action to a patient. It can also refer to the use of verbal or nonverbal communication to influence a person's perceptions, attitudes, or behaviors related to their health.

However, it is important to note that "suggestion" does not have a specific medical definition and its meaning may vary depending on the context in which it is used. In some cases, it may be used interchangeably with terms such as "recommendation," "counseling," or "persuasion."

In contrast, there is a psychological concept called "the power of suggestion" that refers to the phenomenon where an individual's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors can be influenced by expectations or suggestions from others. While this concept is not unique to medicine, it can have important implications for medical practice, particularly in areas such as hypnosis, placebo effects, and patient-provider communication.

Acupuncture therapy is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body to stimulate the flow of energy (Qi), balance the vital force (Chi), and promote healing. It is based on the concept of meridians, or pathways, through which this energy flows. Acupuncture therapy is used to treat a variety of conditions, including pain, stress, anxiety, insomnia, digestive disorders, and reproductive health issues. According to Western medicine, acupuncture may work by stimulating the nervous system, increasing blood flow, and releasing natural pain-relieving chemicals called endorphins. It is generally considered safe when performed by a qualified practitioner using sterile needles.

The double-blind method is a study design commonly used in research, including clinical trials, to minimize bias and ensure the objectivity of results. In this approach, both the participants and the researchers are unaware of which group the participants are assigned to, whether it be the experimental group or the control group. This means that neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving a particular treatment or placebo, thus reducing the potential for bias in the evaluation of outcomes. The assignment of participants to groups is typically done by a third party not involved in the study, and the codes are only revealed after all data have been collected and analyzed.

Cardiovascular physiological processes refer to the functioning and mechanisms of the heart and blood vessels to maintain adequate circulation of blood, oxygen, and nutrients throughout the body. This includes:

1. Heart rate and rhythm: The heart's ability to contract and relax regularly to pump blood.
2. Cardiac output: The amount of blood pumped by the heart in one minute, calculated as stroke volume (amount of blood pumped per beat) multiplied by heart rate.
3. Blood pressure: The force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of the blood vessels, determined by cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance.
4. Vascular tone: The degree of constriction or dilation of blood vessels, regulated by the autonomic nervous system and various hormones to maintain blood pressure and blood flow.
5. Blood flow distribution: The regulation of blood flow to different organs based on their metabolic demands, influenced by local autoregulation and neural and humoral factors.
6. Electrolyte and fluid balance: The maintenance of proper electrolyte concentrations and fluid volume in the blood and tissues, essential for cardiovascular function and overall homeostasis.
7. Cardiac and vascular response to stress: The adaptive changes in heart rate, contractility, vascular tone, and blood flow during exercise or other physiological stressors.
8. Hemostasis and thrombosis: The processes that maintain the integrity of the cardiovascular system by preventing excessive bleeding (hemostasis) while minimizing the risk of pathological clot formation (thrombosis).

Clinical trials are research studies that involve human participants and are designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new medical treatments, drugs, devices, or behavioral interventions. The purpose of clinical trials is to determine whether a new intervention is safe, effective, and beneficial for patients, as well as to compare it with currently available treatments. Clinical trials follow a series of phases, each with specific goals and criteria, before a new intervention can be approved by regulatory authorities for widespread use.

Clinical trials are conducted according to a protocol, which is a detailed plan that outlines the study's objectives, design, methodology, statistical analysis, and ethical considerations. The protocol is developed and reviewed by a team of medical experts, statisticians, and ethicists, and it must be approved by an institutional review board (IRB) before the trial can begin.

Participation in clinical trials is voluntary, and participants must provide informed consent before enrolling in the study. Informed consent involves providing potential participants with detailed information about the study's purpose, procedures, risks, benefits, and alternatives, as well as their rights as research subjects. Participants can withdraw from the study at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which they are entitled.

Clinical trials are essential for advancing medical knowledge and improving patient care. They help researchers identify new treatments, diagnostic tools, and prevention strategies that can benefit patients and improve public health. However, clinical trials also pose potential risks to participants, including adverse effects from experimental interventions, time commitment, and inconvenience. Therefore, it is important for researchers to carefully design and conduct clinical trials to minimize risks and ensure that the benefits outweigh the risks.

Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention or concentration, often associated with relaxation, and heightened suggestibility. In a clinical context, hypnosis is often used as a tool in hypnotherapy, to help individuals explore unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, or to make positive changes to their thoughts, behavior, and physical well-being. It's important to note that hypnosis is not a state of unconsciousness or sleep, but rather a state of altered consciousness characterized by increased suggestibility and focused attention.

It's also worth noting that the definition of hypnosis can vary between different fields and perspectives. Some definitions emphasize the role of suggestion in shaping experience during hypnosis, while others focus on the importance of expectancy and belief. Additionally, there is ongoing debate about the precise mechanisms underlying hypnotic phenomena, with some researchers emphasizing social and psychological factors, while others highlight neurological and physiological changes associated with hypnosis.

Analgesia is defined as the absence or relief of pain in a patient, achieved through various medical means. It is derived from the Greek word "an-" meaning without and "algein" meaning to feel pain. Analgesics are medications that are used to reduce pain without causing loss of consciousness, and they work by blocking the transmission of pain signals to the brain.

Examples of analgesics include over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and naproxen (Aleve). Prescription opioid painkillers, such as oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet) and hydrocodone (Vicodin), are also used for pain relief but carry a higher risk of addiction and abuse.

Analgesia can also be achieved through non-pharmacological means, such as through nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulation, acupuncture, and other complementary therapies. The choice of analgesic therapy depends on the type and severity of pain, as well as the patient's medical history and individual needs.

Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves the insertion of thin needles into specific points on the body to stimulate the body's natural healing processes. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, energy (known as "qi" or "chi") flows through the body along pathways called meridians. Acupuncture is believed to help restore the flow of qi and improve the balance of the body's energy.

In modern medical practice, acupuncture is often used to treat pain, including chronic pain, muscle stiffness, and headaches. It is also sometimes used to treat conditions such as nausea and vomiting, insomnia, and addiction. The precise mechanism by which acupuncture works is not fully understood, but it is thought to involve the release of natural pain-relieving chemicals called endorphins, as well as other physiological changes in the body. Acupuncture is generally considered safe when performed by a qualified practitioner, and side effects are typically mild and temporary.

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is a type of clinical study in which participants are randomly assigned to receive either the experimental intervention or the control condition, which may be a standard of care, placebo, or no treatment. The goal of an RCT is to minimize bias and ensure that the results are due to the intervention being tested rather than other factors. This design allows for a comparison between the two groups to determine if there is a significant difference in outcomes. RCTs are often considered the gold standard for evaluating the safety and efficacy of medical interventions, as they provide a high level of evidence for causal relationships between the intervention and health outcomes.

Controlled clinical trials are a type of medical research study that compare the effects of one or more interventions (e.g., drugs, treatments, or procedures) to a standard of care or placebo in a group of participants who have a specific medical condition. These studies are designed to determine whether an intervention is safe and effective, and they typically involve randomly assigning participants to receive either the experimental intervention or the control.

In a controlled clinical trial, the researchers carefully control and monitor all aspects of the study to minimize bias and ensure that the results are as reliable and valid as possible. This may include using standardized measures to assess outcomes, blinding participants and researchers to treatment assignments, and analyzing data using statistical methods.

Controlled clinical trials are an important part of the process for developing and approving new medical treatments and interventions. They provide valuable information about the safety and efficacy of these interventions, and help to ensure that they are safe and effective for use in clinical practice.

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. It is a complex phenomenon that can result from various stimuli, such as thermal, mechanical, or chemical irritation, and it can be acute or chronic. The perception of pain involves the activation of specialized nerve cells called nociceptors, which transmit signals to the brain via the spinal cord. These signals are then processed in different regions of the brain, leading to the conscious experience of pain. It's important to note that pain is a highly individual and subjective experience, and its perception can vary widely among individuals.

Treatment outcome is a term used to describe the result or effect of medical treatment on a patient's health status. It can be measured in various ways, such as through symptoms improvement, disease remission, reduced disability, improved quality of life, or survival rates. The treatment outcome helps healthcare providers evaluate the effectiveness of a particular treatment plan and make informed decisions about future care. It is also used in clinical research to compare the efficacy of different treatments and improve patient care.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by recurrent abdominal pain, bloating, and altered bowel habits in the absence of any structural or biochemical abnormalities. The symptoms can vary from person to person, ranging from mild to severe.

The exact cause of IBS is not known, but it's thought to involve a combination of factors such as muscle contractions in the intestine, abnormalities in the nervous system, inflammation in the intestines, severe infection, or changes in bacteria in the gut.

It's important to note that while IBS can cause great discomfort and distress, it does not lead to serious complications such as changes in bowel tissue or increased risk of colorectal cancer. However, it can significantly affect a person's quality of life and daily activities.

A research design in medical or healthcare research is a systematic plan that guides the execution and reporting of research to address a specific research question or objective. It outlines the overall strategy for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to draw valid conclusions. The design includes details about the type of study (e.g., experimental, observational), sampling methods, data collection techniques, data analysis approaches, and any potential sources of bias or confounding that need to be controlled for. A well-defined research design helps ensure that the results are reliable, generalizable, and relevant to the research question, ultimately contributing to evidence-based practice in medicine and healthcare.

A cross-over study is a type of experimental design in which participants receive two or more interventions in a specific order. After a washout period, each participant receives the opposite intervention(s). The primary advantage of this design is that it controls for individual variability by allowing each participant to act as their own control.

In medical research, cross-over studies are often used to compare the efficacy or safety of two treatments. For example, a researcher might conduct a cross-over study to compare the effectiveness of two different medications for treating high blood pressure. Half of the participants would be randomly assigned to receive one medication first and then switch to the other medication after a washout period. The other half of the participants would receive the opposite order of treatments.

Cross-over studies can provide valuable insights into the relative merits of different interventions, but they also have some limitations. For example, they may not be suitable for studying conditions that are chronic or irreversible, as it may not be possible to completely reverse the effects of the first intervention before administering the second one. Additionally, carryover effects from the first intervention can confound the results if they persist into the second treatment period.

Overall, cross-over studies are a useful tool in medical research when used appropriately and with careful consideration of their limitations.

Pain measurement, in a medical context, refers to the quantification or evaluation of the intensity and/or unpleasantness of a patient's subjective pain experience. This is typically accomplished through the use of standardized self-report measures such as numerical rating scales (NRS), visual analog scales (VAS), or categorical scales (mild, moderate, severe). In some cases, physiological measures like heart rate, blood pressure, and facial expressions may also be used to supplement self-reported pain ratings. The goal of pain measurement is to help healthcare providers better understand the nature and severity of a patient's pain in order to develop an effective treatment plan.

A single-blind method in medical research is a study design where the participants are unaware of the group or intervention they have been assigned to, but the researchers conducting the study know which participant belongs to which group. This is done to prevent bias from the participants' expectations or knowledge of their assignment, while still allowing the researchers to control the study conditions and collect data.

In a single-blind trial, the participants do not know whether they are receiving the active treatment or a placebo (a sham treatment that looks like the real thing but has no therapeutic effect), whereas the researcher knows which participant is receiving which intervention. This design helps to ensure that the participants' responses and outcomes are not influenced by their knowledge of the treatment assignment, while still allowing the researchers to assess the effectiveness or safety of the intervention being studied.

Single-blind methods are commonly used in clinical trials and other medical research studies where it is important to minimize bias and control for confounding variables that could affect the study results.

Pain management is a branch of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of pain and improvement in the quality of life of patients with chronic pain. The goal of pain management is to reduce pain levels, improve physical functioning, and help patients cope mentally and emotionally with their pain. This may involve the use of medications, interventional procedures, physical therapy, psychological therapy, or a combination of these approaches.

The definition of pain management can vary depending on the medical context, but it generally refers to a multidisciplinary approach that addresses the complex interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to the experience of pain. Pain management specialists may include physicians, nurses, physical therapists, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals who work together to provide comprehensive care for patients with chronic pain.

I'm sorry for any confusion, but "Foxes" is not a term that has a widely accepted or specific medical definition. The common fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a species of small omnivorous mammals, and while there can be medical issues related to foxes or other animals in certain contexts, such as zoonotic diseases, "Foxes" itself does not have a medical connotation. If you have any specific medical query, I'd be happy to try and help with that.

The "drug industry" is also commonly referred to as the "pharmaceutical industry." It is a segment of the healthcare sector that involves the research, development, production, and marketing of medications or drugs. This includes both prescription and over-the-counter medicines used to treat, cure, or prevent diseases and medical conditions in humans and animals.

The drug industry comprises various types of organizations, such as:

1. Research-based pharmaceutical companies: These are large corporations that focus on the research and development (R&D) of new drugs, clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals, manufacturing, and marketing their products globally. Examples include Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, and Merck.

2. Generic drug manufacturers: After the patent for a brand-name drug expires, generic drug manufacturers can produce and sell a similar version of the drug at a lower cost. These companies must demonstrate that their product is bioequivalent to the brand-name drug in terms of safety, quality, and efficacy.

3. Biotechnology companies: These firms specialize in developing drugs using biotechnological methods, such as recombinant DNA technology, gene therapy, or monoclonal antibodies. Many biotech companies focus on specific therapeutic areas, like oncology, immunology, or neurology.

4. Contract research organizations (CROs): CROs provide various services to the drug industry, including clinical trial management, data analysis, regulatory affairs support, and pharmacovigilance. They work with both large pharmaceutical companies and smaller biotech firms to help streamline the drug development process.

5. Drug delivery system companies: These organizations focus on developing innovative technologies for delivering drugs more effectively and safely to patients. Examples include transdermal patches, inhalers, or long-acting injectables.

6. Wholesalers and distributors: Companies that purchase drugs from manufacturers and distribute them to pharmacies, hospitals, and other healthcare providers.

The drug industry plays a crucial role in improving public health by discovering, developing, and delivering new treatments for various diseases and medical conditions. However, it is also subject to criticism and regulation due to concerns about high drug prices, marketing practices, and the potential for conflicts of interest between industry and healthcare professionals.

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ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Cromelin, Richard (28 November 1998). "Placebo's Effect: A Dynamic, Enduring Sound". Los Angeles Times ... "Placebo". ITB. Retrieved 2 May 2018. "Placebo singles chart positions in Australia". Retrieved 26 April 2013. "Placebo singles ... "Placebo singles chart positions in New Zealand". Retrieved 16 April 2013. "Placebo single chart positions in the US". Retrieved ... "Placebo: Without You I'm Nothing". Q (146): 110-11. November 1998. Eddy, Chuck (13 January 1999). "Placebo: Without You I'm ...
Because placebos by definition lack active ingredients, the effect of placebo analgesia is considered to result from the ... This is suggestive of the idea that prosocial behaviour may be linked to placebo effects, as empathy scores tend to be higher ... Benedetti F, Mayberg HS, Wager TD, Stohler CS, Zubieta JK (November 2005). "Neurobiological mechanisms of the placebo effect". ... Specialists could exercise emphasis on the symptom-relieving effect of the tablets, as opposed to the side effects. This would ...
... "placebo effect", which he contrasts with drug effects. Beecher suggested placebo effects occurred in about 35% of people. ... "placebo effect" was T.C. Graves, in a 1920 paper in The Lancet. He spoke of "the placebo effects of drugs" being manifested in ... "placebo effect" in a published paper in The Lancet in 1920.[original research?] He spoke of "the placebo effects of drugs" ... the placebo effect has been considered a scientific fact. Beecher was the first scientist to quantify the placebo effect ...
... changing the placebo thermostat). Additionally, placebo thermostats work due to the placebo effect. The placebo effect works on ... Placebo thermostats work on two psychological principles, which are classical conditioning and the placebo effect. First, ... Both psychological concepts of classical conditioning and the placebo effect may play a role in the effectiveness of placebo ... A placebo button is a push-button or other control that appears to have functionality but has no physical effect when pressed. ...
Although not explicitly stated, a background photo in season two's "Placebo Effect" hints Archer may have instead graduated ... Reed, Adam (March 24, 2011). "Placebo Effect". Archer. Season 02. Episode 09. FX. Reed, Adam (April 21, 2014). "Archer Vice: ...
"Placebo Effect". FX. 24 March 2011. FX. Butler, A (14 March 2017). "Leicester unveil enormous pre-match Shakespeare-related ...
ISBN 978-1-929918-51-5. Placebo Effects. W.W. Norton. 1999. ISBN 978-0-393-31891-3. Anthologies Edited Jeanne Marie Beaumont; ... 2010), Curious Conduct (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2004), and "Placebo Effects" (Norton, 1997). Her work has appeared in Boston Review ... 1996 National Poetry Series, for Placebo Effects, William Matthews 2003 The Greensboro Review literary award for poetry 2009 ...
The purpose of the placebo group is to account for the placebo effect, that is, effects from treatment that do not depend on ... by way of affecting more patients, by affecting responders more strongly, or both). This close association of placebo effects ... This apparent placebo effect may have occurred because: Adhering to the protocol had a psychological effect, i.e. genuine ... Good blinding may reduce or eliminate experimental biases such as confirmation bias, the placebo effect, the observer effect, ...
... have few or no true antidepressant effects above and beyond their placebo effects", and that their adverse effects, including ... non-systematic recording of adverse effects, use of "placebo washout" periods to exclude placebo responders, selective ... Burns, David D. (March 9, 2017). "The Placebo Effect". Burns, David D. (January 23, 2017). "The truth about antidepressants?". ... among them the lack of active placebos in double-blind studies, use of flawed assessment instruments like the Hamilton Rating ...
The Hawthorne effect. Industrial workers were more productive in better illumination, and most productive in worse. The placebo ... A number of unexpected effects have been observed including: The clever Hans effect. A horse appeared to be capable of doing ... He concluded by calculation of a p-value that the excess was a real, but unexplained, effect. In a famous example of hypothesis ... When the null hypothesis defaults to "no difference" or "no effect", a more precise experiment is a less severe test of the ...
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Great Expectations: The Evolutionary Psychology of Faith-Healing and the Placebo Effect" (PDF). The Mind Made Flesh: Essays ... ISBN 978-1-84169-199-2. Humphrey, Nicholas (2004). "The Placebo Effect". In Gregory, Richard Langton (ed.). The Oxford ... The effect of that false information is that the benefits of the self-treatment cease to outweigh its costs. As a result, it is ... Two factors affect their deployment. First, it is usually advantageous to deploy them on a precautionary basis. As a result, it ...
Morris, Bill (1 May 1993). "The Placebo Effect". NZ Skeptics. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 10 ... "Hope is in the air: Hyperbaric chambers - the real deal or a placebo?". NZ Herald. 11 September 2015. Archived from the ...
He also discusses the ethical issues of the placebo. He concludes the placebo effect is possibly justifiable if used in ... The placebo effect. Already introduced in the previous chapter, Goldacre discusses it in further detail. He notes factors that ... For example, the chapter on homeopathy becomes the point where he explains the placebo effect, regression to the mean (that is ... can enhance the placebo effect, such as higher prices, fancy packaging, theatrical procedures and a confident attitude in the ...
"The Placebo Effect". In Gregory, Richard L. (ed.), Oxford Companion to the Mind. Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004 ... Over the last ten years Humphrey has been investigating the placebo effect, and has put forward a novel theory with John ... "Great Expectations: The Evolutionary Psychology of Faith-Healing and the Placebo Effect" Archived 1 October 2018 at the Wayback ... "Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample the sensory environment", Perception 7:343-348 1978. " ...
The Placebo Effect. This is a discussion of the role of the placebo in modern medicine, including examples such as Diazepam, ... The effect was first reported by chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons in 1989, but attempts to reproduce it over the ... Brooks describes research into prescription behaviour which appears to show that use of placebos is commonplace. He describes ... systems or whether this was an unidentified effect of gravity. The lead investigator into the progress of the rockets is ...
In 2015, Miller and Ted Kaptchuk co-authored a perspective paper on placebo effects, again in the New England Journal of ... Kaptchuk, Ted J.; Miller, Franklin G. (2 July 2015). "Placebo Effects in Medicine". New England Journal of Medicine. 373 (1): 8 ... Houston, Muiris (20 July 2015). "Medical Matters: How empathy and engagement enhance the placebo effect". Irish Times. ... Kupferschmidt, K. (24 May 2011). "More placebo use promoted in Germany". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 183 (10): E633- ...
He is known for his research into the placebo and nocebo effects. Benedetti began studying placebos in the 1990s while ... Additionally, his book Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease won the British Medical ... A review of his book Placebo Effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease in the New England Journal of Medicine ... Benedetti, Fabrizio (2009). Placebo effects : understanding the mechanisms in health and disease (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford ...
The Placebo Effect: Q&A with David Rotenberg. Retrieved 22 August 2019. {{cite book}}: ,website= ignored (help) Wagner, Vit (23 ... Clare, Kerry (interviewer). ""Free fall beneath the carpet": David Rotenberg on setting The Placebo Effect in Toronto". 49th ... Clare, Stephen Patrick (17 February 2012). "Book Review: The Placebo Effect, by David Rotenberg". National Post. Retrieved 5 ... Wiersema, Robert J. (13 February 2012). "The Placebo Effect [review]". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 11 August 2019. Worthington, ...
The difference results from the nocebo effect, which is the opposite of the placebo effect: the symptoms are caused by ... Colloca, Luana; Barsky, Arthur J. (6 February 2020). "Placebo and Nocebo Effects". New England Journal of Medicine. 382 (6): ... In addition, the inhibitory effect on protein prenylation may also be involved in a number of unwanted side effects associated ... Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects". New England Journal of Medicine. 383 (22): 2182-2184. doi:10.1056/ ...
How the Placebo Effect Works. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03-20. Sugar: It Powers the Earth. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2016-03 ...
Kirsch, Irving (2014). "Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect". Zeitschrift für Psychologie. 222 (3): 128-134. doi:10.1027/ ... A common cause for unblinding is the presence of side effects (or effects) in the treatment group. In pharmacological trials, ... Double, D. B. (19 October 1996). "Placebo mania. Placebo controlled trials are needed to provide data on effectiveness of ... Better blinding of patients and clinicians reduces effect size. Researchers concluded that unblinding inflates effect size in ...
Byerly, Henry C. (1976). "Explaining and Exploiting Placebo Effects". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 19 (3): 423-437. ...
Josh Clark and Charles W. "Chuck" Bryant (June 10, 2014). "How the Placebo Effect Works". Stuff You Should Know (Podcast). ...
... or the improvement in scores in the placebo group in clinical trials, is not only due to the placebo effect, but is also due to ... in turn resulting in enhanced placebo effects and apparent antidepressant efficacy. Placebos have been found to modify the ... Kirsch I (2019). "Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety". Front Psychiatry. 10: 407. doi:10.3389/fpsyt. ... Additionally, the placebo effect might be inflated in these trials by frequent clinical consultation, lowering the comparative ...
... as Bartender Tracey Stiles as Detective Laura Wade as Artist Eileen Flahegerty as Model Placebo Effect at IMDb Placebo Effect ... Placebo Effect is a 1998 American thriller film written by Luciano Saber and directed by Alejandro Seri. Featuring Francesco ...
Placebo effect not all in your head Whether doctors expect something to work or not telling the patient it definitely will work ... This means the "placebo effect" is real. It causes distinct physiological changes that can be measured. ... Those who believed a treatment would work showed a much greater placebo effect than those who did not believe or were unsure. ... A team under Falk Eippert in Hamburg, Germany reports they have direct evidence that the placebo effect starts in the spine. ...
Yet, the bulk of the article is about nocebo effects. What are nocebo effects but negative side effects from placeboes? He even ... the placebo effect has no side effects other than letting the tumor progress from state I to stage IV while youre feeling good ... The key to the placebo effect is that the patient expects a good outcome, while in the nocebo effect the expectation is of a ... "The key to the placebo effect is that the patient expects a good outcome, while in the nocebo effect the expectation is of a ...
As she explained to Chris Smith, the question was how would this affect the performance of the placebo effect, and how would it ... This would mean that the placebo effect would be larger for the more precise group compared to this group with more unreliable ... We first see in the behaviour that the placebo effect was actually nearly none present in this more unreliable information ... The size of the placebo effect depends on how precise our expectations about a treatment are. ...
... placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to them. ... Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment -- ... Even psychological placebos have an effect. Date:. February 5, ... Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment -- placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to ... Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment -- placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to ...
Placebo How the Placebo Effect and Culture Affect Healing Outcomes Recognize the impact that cultural context can have on our ... To learn more about how your physician can leverage the power of the placebo effect in your health, see our Harness the Power ... Placebo effects, writes Kaptchuk, are often described as "non-specific." He suggests instead that they should be considered-and ... The patient had been through many treatments and should have benefited even if they were from placebo effects. But two studies ...
The public is interested in placebo effects because they promise increased self-control; the existence of placebo effects ... Furthermore, the greatest placebo effects in pain response were found late in stimulation. These late effects suggest that a ... Neural responses to placebo in clinical trials of antidepressants. *Relationship of placebo effects to other self-regulatory ... Although placebo effects were significant in both experiments in this study, these particularly large effects were induced in ...
... have distinguished between the placebo effects produced by a patients expectation and the real effects of treatment in a group ... Acupuncture: beyond the placebo effect. Published: 1 May 2005. Researchers at the University of Southampton and University ... College London have shown for the first time that the impact of acupuncture goes beyond the acknowledged placebo effect caused ... The brain activity in the third group of patients shows that real acupuncture elicits a demonstrable physiological effect over ...
Medicine in every culture and every age has used the placebo effect abundantly. Hundreds of studies have shown that our mind ... rely a lot on rituals to cause a psycho-physiological effect. This is another form of placebo effect.. - many small illnesses ... in placebo studies, people told that a specific activity (e.g. cleaning hotel rooms) had a beneficial effect on health indeed ... Ive been reading very much about the placebo effect and Ill have to admit that I am amazed on how many interesting things ...
The placebo effect occurs when people respond to treatments that have no medical reason to be effective. Although the placebo ... As researchers continue to study the placebo effect, count on UCLA practitioners to take the time to provide the compassionate ... Recent studies have shown that COMT levels can affect the strength of a patients response to placebo. ... Placebos work when delivered by a trusted, caring provider. The effectiveness of placebo treatment seems to be closely related ...
Psychopathological Effects of Solitary Confinement. There appears to be a correlation between solitary confinement and mental ... affecting the primary outcome. Coincidentally (although as skeptics, we do not believe in coincidence), the initial statistical ...
Hence, it would be nice to be able to figure out who, exactly, is most susceptible to the placebo effect, since not everyone ... Whenever medical researchers conduct clinical trials of a new drug, they have to account for the placebo effect-the fact that ... The Strength of the Placebo Effect May Hinge on Your DNA. By Shaunacy Ferro. , May 6, 2015. ... Recent research has shown that the placebo effect isnt just psychological-its physiological. Several things happen when you ...
Moderators and mediators of the placebo effect are subject to many studies and meta-analyses, and it has been shown that they ... Placebo effects affect all medical subspecialties and are relevant contributions to all medical treatment successes and/or ... Like placebo effects and placebo responses, as they occur in clinical trials, negative responses (called nocebo effects) to ... of the placebo effect and avoidance of nocebo effects is favored, but requires validation. Open-label placebo applications have ...
... Sleep Med. 2008 Dec;9(8): ... placebo) for IRLS score (-13.4+/-0.7 vs. -9.6+/-0.7) and MOS sleep disturbance score (-25.3+/-1.5 vs. -16.8+/-1.5) (p,or=0.0001 ... RLS-QOL score was improved over placebo at Week 12 (p,0.01) as were MOS sleep adequacy (p=0.0008) and quantity (p=0.08) scores ... Methods: Adults with moderate or severe RLS were randomized to receive placebo or pramipexole (flexibly titrated from 0.25 to ...
Wireds Steve Silberman explores the fascinating and increasingly important placebo effect, which appears to be getting ... Placebo effect is getting stronger. Cory Doctorow 10:39 pm Mon Aug 24, 2009 ... But then Benedetti came across a study, done years earlier, that suggested the placebo effect had a neurological foundation. US ... Wireds Steve Silberman explores the fascinating and increasingly important placebo effect, which appears to be getting ...
Investigating placebo effects in treatment of the common cold, Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison ... Researchers Find Modest Placebo Effects in Treatment of the Common Cold. July 14, 2011. Article ... Placebo Effects and the Common Cold: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Family Medicine. July/August 2011. ... Specifically, those who received pills and rated Echinaceas effect highly had illnesses that were 1.31 to 2.58 days shorter and ...
All the latest news about placebo effect from Medical Xpress ... News tagged with placebo effect. * Date 6 hours 12 hours 1 day ... Placebo effect found to be growing stronger for transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy used for depression. A team of ... Ketamines effect on depression may hinge on hope. In study after study, the psychoactive drug ketamine has given profound and ... No benefit in common shoulder treatment over placebo, finds study. A saline injection treatment widely used for calcific ...
Is the pain relief that CBD users claim to experience due to pharmacological effects or placebo effects? Thats a fair question ... A new study shows that while CBD can help people deal with pain, this is due, at least in part, to a placebo effect. ... CBD versus the placebo effect. The experiments resulted in complex, often contradictory findings. ... For example, the pharmacological effect of CBD had the greatest effect on one aspect of pain, whereas, for another, it was the ...
Placebo Effect (Unabridged). audiobook (Unabridged) By Derek Dean ... After his life falls apart, Drew rebuilds himself by selling placebo medication to the people whose lives are in more of a ... div,,script src="https://www.overdrive.com/media/9897715/sample-embed?slug=placebo-effect-unabridged",,/script,,/div,. ...
Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrent and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover Measures NBER Working Paper No. w4316 ... Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrent and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover Measures. Posted: 04 May 2000 ... Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrent and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover Measures. ... Comment, Robert and Schwert, G. William, Poison or Placebo? Evidence on the Deterrent and Wealth Effects of Modern Antitakeover ...
... new research suggests that the placebo effect could help drive antidepressants effects against anxiety disorders.The placebo ... effect refers to an increase in the success of a treatment when a patient expe... ... placebo effect, it is more accurate to state that what the authors were measuring was the effect of expectancy on patient ... new research suggests that the placebo effect could help drive antidepressants effects against anxiety disorders. ...
Placebos could be a better friend than you realize in the universal quest to reduce the number of medications that elderly ... Enhancing the effect of honest placebos. To make the most of honest placebos, research indicates that the recipients need to ... Honest placebos. In Jo Marchants "A Placebo Treatment for Pain" in the New York Times this month, she writes of a 2014 study ... A placebo is often thought of as a harmless substance used as a control in research to determine the effect of actual ...
The aim of the current study was to test the effects of eating a vitamin C-rich food (kiwifruit) on subjective vitality and ... Intervention effects remained significant when adjusting for condition allocation groupings, age, and ethnicity, and were not ... There were no changes in plasma vitamin C status or vitality in the placebo group. Whole-food consumption of kiwifruit was ... placebo (1 tablet/day). The trial consisted of a two-week lead-in, four-week intervention, and two-week washout. Plasma vitamin ...
The placebo effect has been a source of misery to all mankind, but it remains in the economic textbooks as gospel.. 3. A ... The placebo effect of currency devaluation had so many professional economists on the payroll that the Laffer/Miles study was ... The discovery that placebos really have no curative effects is incredibly important. We learn this after textbooks and medical ... It is my considered opinion that the economic textbooks are replete with economic myths the equivalent of the placebo effect in ...
Higher frequency waterpipe users may be more sensitive to the effects of waterpipe smoke nicotine content. Among HIGH users, ... as well as relative to LOW users during placebo. Plasma nicotine concentrations increased when smoking active (but not placebo ... Results: HIGH users had more puffs, shorter inter-puff-intervals, and a higher total puff volume for placebo relative to active ... Conclusions: Higher frequency waterpipe users may be more sensitive to the effects of waterpipe smoke nicotine content. Among ...
... or placebo, starting 2 days before surgery and until the seventh postoperative day. The primary endpoint examines the effects ... or placebo, starting two days before surgery and until the seventh postoperative day. The primary endpoint examines the effects ... double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trial. Recruited patients awaiting CABG surgery at the Montreal Heart Institute (n ... Methods: Q-CABG is a phase II, prospectively registered, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trial. ...
Experience the day of the placebo effect in… ... On the Vijf Meiplein in Leiden, Andrea Evers placebo team ... pitched its tent to everyone who wanted to know more about the effect of words and expectations. ... Knowledge to the neighbourhood about the placebo effect. Knowledge to the neighbourhood about the placebo effect. 05 April 2022 ... Experience the day of the placebo effect in the photo report.. On 4 April, the placebo team organised a day for an insight into ...
Effects of 4 weeks of atazanavir, lopinavir/ritonavir, or placebo in healthy men. --No change in resting basal leg blood flow. ... Effects of 4 weeks of atazanavir, lopinavir/ritonavir, or placebo on endothelial function and insulin sensitivity in healthy ... Objective: Determine the effects of atazanavir and lopinavir-ritonavir on endothelial function and insulin sensitivity in ... Minimal effects on whole-body glucose uptake by clamp (other studies w/same design). Is endothelial dysfunction the link ...
Effects of vitamin D3 supplementation on cognition and blood lipids: a 12-month randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled ... Effects of vitamin D3 supplementation on cognition and blood lipids: a 12-month randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled ... Vitamin D can play an important role in brain health and function, and exert various neuroprotective effects in brain areas ... 7 Protective effects of vitamin D on cognition and pathology are also concluded in animal models.8 9Sonnenberg et al 9 found ...
Many women with low sex drives reported greater sexual satisfaction after taking a placebo, according to new psychology ... Placebo Effect Significantly Improves Womens Sexual Satisfaction, Study Shows. Many women with low sex drives reported greater ... To measure the effect of the treatment, women were asked to rate symptoms of sexual dysfunction such as low sexual desire, low ... They found that opening a new line of communication about sex can have a positive effect in many women with low libidos. ...
  • This suggests that a trusted authority should be the one to describe the benefits of the placebo effect, such as a physician wearing a suit or white lab coat. (mcknights.com)
  • Like placebo effects and placebo responses, as they occur in clinical trials, negative responses (called nocebo effects) to medication and/or placebo application are a challenge in medicine, both in medical routine and in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). (frontiersin.org)
  • For the latter, increasing rates of placebo and nocebo responses have been noted, e.g. in psychiatry, and call for the development of novel trial designs that minimize placebo and nocebo responses, while for clinical routine, increased inclusion and "harnessing" of the placebo effect and avoidance of nocebo effects is favored, but requires validation. (frontiersin.org)
  • We are welcoming to contribute both data paper and review articles to all aspects of the placebo/nocebo response and placebo/nocebo effects in medicine, however with a focus of psychiatry, neurobiology, and psychology. (frontiersin.org)
  • With these, health psychologists Liesbeth van Vliet, Andrea Evers and Janine Westendorp have developed a communication training for health care providers to learn how to optimise placebo effects and minimise nocebo effects. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • It also illustrates how many sham treatments, in the present and the past, could provide real relief to patients, by triggering this physiological effect. (zdnet.com)
  • The study of the placebo effect also has immediate clinical and ethical implications, because the use of inactive (placebo) conditions in clinical trials when effective treatments are available has created an ethical controversy. (jneurosci.org)
  • However, it has been well documented that placebo effects can obscure those of active conditions, even for treatments that were eventually demonstrated to be effective. (jneurosci.org)
  • I trust it will help you (and your doctor) recognize how best to implement placebo treatments moving forward. (psychologytoday.com)
  • It's been revealed that the healing effect from fake treatments could vary from 0% to 100%-even for the same disease and same treatment-depending on the context and cultural meaning in which they were delivered. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The patient had been through many treatments and should have benefited even if they were from placebo effects. (psychologytoday.com)
  • The placebo effect occurs when people respond to treatments that have no medical reason to be effective. (uclahealth.org)
  • Although the placebo effect is generally accepted as being real, exactly why these treatments work remains a mystery. (uclahealth.org)
  • Furthermore, it could lead to honest placebo treatments, where patients knowingly receive placebo treatments (as has been suggested for certain conditions, like Irritable Bowel Syndrome ). (mentalfloss.com)
  • The authors conclude these findings, which suggest small but meaningful effects related to expectation and pill allocation, support the idea that patients beliefs and feelings about treatments should be taken into consideration when making medical decisions. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • A mind-body link also is found in experiments where people with infections are given placebo (inactive) treatments, which they think are the real thing. (psychcentral.com)
  • Sham device versus inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments. (cdc.gov)
  • The accompanying explanation -- the narrative -- played a key role when dispensing the placebos, as did the relationship between the researchers and the participants. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The researchers used the color green as the placebo in the video experiments, examining it both with and without a psychological narrative ("green is calming because it activates early conditioned emotional schemata"), as well as in the context of a neutral or a friendly relationship. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Aug. 29, 2022 Brief exposure with rapamycin has the same positive effects on lifespan and health in old age as a lifelong treatment, researchers show in fruit flies and mice. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Professor Ted J. Kaptchuk , director of the Center for Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School, is one of the world's most respected researchers on the placebo response. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Southampton and University College London have shown for the first time that the impact of acupuncture goes beyond the acknowledged placebo effect caused by the patient's own expectation of feeling benefit from the treatment. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Because placebo response varies with both the amount of caregiver interaction and COMT levels, researchers suspect that the COMT biochemical pathway may be involved in patients' respond to the caregiver relationship. (uclahealth.org)
  • As researchers continue to study the placebo effect, count on UCLA practitioners to take the time to provide the compassionate care necessary to healing. (uclahealth.org)
  • Whenever medical researchers conduct clinical trials of a new drug, they have to account for the placebo effect -the fact that if you give people a treatment, even if it's sugar pills, some of them will feel better. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Given the complex interplay of behavior, expectation, neurotransmitter signaling, disease, and the context of the medical treatment ritual, the molecular pathways and genes involved in contributing to placebo responses is unfolding as a potentially complex network," the researchers write. (mentalfloss.com)
  • The researchers also wanted to assess expectancy effects, so they told some people who had received CBD that they had received a placebo. (420magazine.com)
  • It may be that patients' expectations about the benefits of the drug affected the release of dopamine in the brain's reward pathways, resulting in differences between the two groups in the proportion of dopamine available after treatment, the researchers suggested. (healthday.com)
  • You report that the discovery was made by two Danish researchers that placebos crept into the books because of one 1955 paper, The Powerful Placebo, by a Boston doctor who used selective statistics to make his case. (wanniski.com)
  • We know the placebo effect works, but researchers are starting to figure out exactly why and how doctors could use it to treat patients. (seeker.com)
  • Researchers now need to identify when and where placebo works. (newscientist.com)
  • Several things happen when you take a placebo, including anxiety reduction, pain suppression, or the activation of reward centers in the brain , which might make you feel better. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Some people may have a higher response than others when they take a placebo. (finerminds.com)
  • Despite there being no active ingredients, some people who take a placebo feel better. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Anxiety disorders are common among Australian children, affecting nearly 7% of those aged 4-11 years. (medicalxpress.com)
  • WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Illustrating the power of the mind to heal itself, new research suggests that the placebo effect could help drive antidepressants' effects against anxiety disorders. (healthday.com)
  • Half of the patients received accurate information about the drug and its effectiveness, while the other half were told that the drug was only an 'active placebo' that causes similar side effects as SSRIs but was not likely to ease their social anxiety. (healthday.com)
  • The study authors said they were surprised to find that even though SSRIs influence levels of serotonin in the brain, the drug's effects on another neurochemical, dopamine, appeared to be responsible for the greatest improvement in their anxiety symptoms. (healthday.com)
  • They examined the use of placebos as an analgesic, to address anxiety and depression and for Parkinson's disease and consistently found a significant reduction in symptoms - especially when paired with verbal suggestions that the placebo will be successful. (mcknights.com)
  • Taking 5-HTP before surgery might cause too much serotonin in the brain and can result in serious side effects including heart problems, shivering, and anxiety. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Taking 5-HTP along with carbidopa can increase the risk of serious side effects including rapid speech, anxiety, aggressiveness, and others. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The word placebo means "I will please" in Latin, and it's the phenomenon that, if someone thinks something is going to help them then they get benefit even if the thing does absolutely nothing. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • The placebo effect is a psychobiological phenomenon that can be attributable to different mechanisms, including expectation of clinical improvement and pavlovian conditioning. (jneurosci.org)
  • Despite strong growth in scientific investigation of the placebo effect, understanding of this phenomenon remains deeply confused. (philpapers.org)
  • The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: Rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessment. (philpapers.org)
  • Clinical research has established that there is a phenomenon called the placebo effect. (tonybelieves.com)
  • This phenomenon, called the placebo effect, appears to occur for two reasons. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Scientists are interested in placebo responses because the effects of belief on human experience and behavior provide an entry point for studying internal control of affective, sensory, and peripheral processes. (jneurosci.org)
  • The scientists from Southampton, Dr George Lewith and Dr Peter White of the University's Complementary Medicine Research Unit, have distinguished between the placebo effects produced by a patient's expectation and the real effects of treatment in a group of patients with painful osteo-arthritis, by monitoring specific responses in the brain during treatment. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • This study is just a preliminary look into the genetics of placebo responses, but if your response to placebos is coded into your genes, that could affect the reliability of studies that measure a drug's efficacy against the efficacy of the placebo treatment. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Describing the experiment, De Vita says, "Then we administer a drug, like pure CBD, or a placebo and then reassess their pain responses and see how they change based on which substance was administered. (420magazine.com)
  • Reading over the new findings, he said that 'though this study can be read as measuring a 'placebo effect,' it is more accurate to state that what the authors were measuring was the effect of expectancy on patient responses. (healthday.com)
  • This effect is less pronounced in longer trials, but shorter trials like this one definitely carry the risk of increased placebo responses. (medscape.com)
  • Hence, it would be nice to be able to figure out who, exactly, is most susceptible to the placebo effect, since not everyone feels great after a course of sugar pills. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Some people seem more susceptible to the placebo effect than others. (msdmanuals.com)
  • the confidence of doctors in a treatment has a great effect on the patient's recovery. (eupedia.com)
  • Recent studies have shown that COMT levels can affect the strength of a patient's response to placebo. (uclahealth.org)
  • Placebo pills are used in medical treatment, when the physician suspects that the patient's symptoms are in his mind only and the patient has no real disease. (rapidtables.com)
  • Those who believed a treatment would work showed a much greater placebo effect than those who did not believe or were unsure. (zdnet.com)
  • Objective: To investigate whether a sham device (a validated sham acupuncture needle) has a greater placebo effect than an inert pill in patients with persistent arm pain. (cdc.gov)
  • That means that the relationship and rapport between a patient and his or her doctor could be key, establishing 'a framework of hope [that] can have a profound effect on outcomes,' he said. (healthday.com)
  • Brain scans showed that the drug had the same effect on serotonin and blocked about 80% of serotonin transporters in both groups of patients, according to the study published online recently in the journal Translational Psychiatry . (healthday.com)
  • Regular readers of this blog should be aware that promoters of "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM), a.k.a., "integrating quackery with science-based medicine and calling it "integrative medicine," have latched onto placebo effects the way a wolf latches on to its prey, sometimes going so far as to call it the " powerful placebo . (scienceblogs.com)
  • The brain activity in the third group of patients shows that real acupuncture elicits a demonstrable physiological effect over and above a simple skin prick. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • In addition, the response of the second group of patients who received the sham acupuncture treatment, indicates that the expectation of and belief in the treatment also has a physiological effect on the brain. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • this is specifically relevant with non-minor diseases and complaints, and for patients with limited ability to understand the concept why placebo research is conducted in medicine at all. (frontiersin.org)
  • Deceptive placebo research has limitations not only when applied to patients, but also in healthy volunteers. (frontiersin.org)
  • The intent-to-treat population included 357 patients: 178 received pramipexole and 179 received placebo. (nih.gov)
  • The four-armed trial (no pill, placebo, Echinacea blinded and Echinacea unblinded), which included 719 randomized participants aged 12 to 80 years, revealed that patients randomized to the no-pill group had longer and more severe illnesses than those who received pills, regardless of the pills content. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • Sullivan added, 'We know from other studies that information that is presented to patients, of either an encouraging or discouraging nature, can be reflected in changes in neurotransmitters and related substances, which undoubtedly have an effect on patients' overall psychological response. (healthday.com)
  • Recruited patients awaiting CABG surgery at the Montreal Heart Institute (n = 100) will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either quercetin supplementation (500 mg twice daily) or placebo, starting 2 days before surgery and until the seventh postoperative day. (frontiersin.org)
  • Patients were randomly divided into two groups to receive 233mg zinc gluconate (containing 30mg zinc) supplements (n=29) or placebo (n=29) per day for 6weeks. (eurekamag.com)
  • Patients who received zinc supplements had significantly higher serum zinc concentrations (+6.9±13.2 vs. -1.5±16.5mg/dL, P=0.03) than those received the placebo. (eurekamag.com)
  • Effects of chondroitin sulfate on brain response to painful stimulation in knee osteoarthritis patients. (upf.edu)
  • We have investigated the effect of chondroitin sulfate (CS) on brain response to knee painful stimulation in patients with knee osteoarthritis using fMRI. (upf.edu)
  • METHODS: Twenty-two patients received CS (800mg/day) and 27 patients placebo, and were assessed at baseline and after 4 months of treatment. (upf.edu)
  • Effects on muscle performance of NSAID treatment with Piroxicam versus placebo in geriatric patients with acute infection-induced inflammation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In the present placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial (RCT) we investigated the effect of piroxicam on the evolution of muscle performance and mobility in hospitalized geriatric patients with acute infection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As it turns out, one of the follow up studies centered around patients with irritable-bowl syndrome did in fact reveal that the group with the high-dopamine variant of the COMT gene had a stronger reaction to the placebo. (prescottdentistry.com)
  • In the first case, placebo analgesia is typically blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone, whereas in the second case it is not, depending on the procedure that is applied to induce the placebo analgesic response. (jneurosci.org)
  • Whereas placebo research mostly focuses on a biomedical model -- an inert pill is provided with a medical rationale, which produces a corresponding effect -- little is known about the effect of placebos provided with a psychological rationale. (sciencedaily.com)
  • I regularly talk with elders who are suffering from distressing symptoms such as constipation, dry mouth and other medication side effects. (mcknights.com)
  • To measure the effect of the treatment, women were asked to rate symptoms of sexual dysfunction such as low sexual desire, low sexual arousal and problems with orgasm. (utexas.edu)
  • However, placebos work particularly on symptoms modulated by your brain such as perception of pain. (finerminds.com)
  • Amazingly, subjects in the control group are often relieved of symptoms similar to those in the treatment group, in spite of the placebo having no medicinal qualities whatsoever. (tonybelieves.com)
  • Even though the treatment has no medicinal effect, these volunteers report milder symptoms than those given no treatment. (psychcentral.com)
  • Many medical conditions and symptoms come and go without treatment, so a person taking a placebo may just coincidentally feel better or worse. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The placebo effect is mainly on symptoms rather than the actual disease. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Changes in severity scores for arm symptoms and grip strength were similar between groups, but arm function improved more in the placebo pill group (2.0,0.06 to 3.92, P = 0.04). (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: The sham device had greater effects than the placebo pill on self reported pain and severity of symptoms over the entire course of treatment but not during the two week placebo run in. (cdc.gov)
  • For science and the public at large, the question remained: Is the pain relief that CBD users claim to experience due to pharmacological effects or placebo effects? (420magazine.com)
  • That is, we found improvements in pain measures caused by the pharmacological effects of CBD and the psychological effects of just expecting that they had gotten CBD. (420magazine.com)
  • For example, the pharmacological effect of CBD had the greatest effect on one aspect of pain, whereas, for another, it was the participants' expectancy. (420magazine.com)
  • This indicates that the pharmacological effect was identical in both groups and that this cannot explain why correct information gave better treatment results,' Hjorth said. (healthday.com)
  • Placebo effect: sugar pills as medicine? (uclahealth.org)
  • Investigating placebo effects in treatment of the common cold, Bruce Barrett, MD, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues, report finding modest and nuanced effects related to receiving pills regardless of their content, especially among those who believe in a particular therapy. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • Specifically, those who received pills and rated Echinaceas effect highly had illnesses that were 1.31 to 2.58 days shorter and 26 to 29 percent less severe. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • To make the most of honest placebos, research indicates that the recipients need to believe that the pills are going to work. (mcknights.com)
  • For example, residents could choose their favorite color among a rainbow of pills labeled "placebo. (mcknights.com)
  • A quick Google search found an Australian company selling sugar pills with an authentic-looking "placebo" label, several businesses hawking "happy pills" and other joke remedies on Amazon, and an app developed to track the effects of the use of a placebo. (mcknights.com)
  • The best way to purchase placebo pills, aside from making your own , would be to work with your pharmacy service to create placebos that best fill the needs of your residents. (mcknights.com)
  • zen-t] Actually there is evidence that giving people placebos and telling them that they are receiving placebo pills can have a beneficial effect as well (see links). (halfbakery.com)
  • Many women with low sex drives reported greater sexual satisfaction after taking a placebo, according to new psychology research from The University of Texas at Austin and Baylor College of Medicine. (utexas.edu)
  • We hypothesized that we would primarily detect expectancy-induced placebo analgesia (pain relief). (420magazine.com)
  • In 1785, the word placebo first appeared in a medical dictionary as "a commonplace method or medicine. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Adults with moderate or severe RLS were randomized to receive placebo or pramipexole (flexibly titrated from 0.25 to 0.75mg), 2-3h before bedtime for 12 weeks. (nih.gov)
  • The size of the placebo effect depends on how precise our expectations about a treatment are. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • a treatment condition and a non treated controlled condition, and then the second phase would be that you present the same thing again but in the first phase we don't tell our participants that we present them two different intensities are more painful for the control and a less painful for the treated to let them really experience this treatment effect. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • And in the group with the high precision, we actually presented as this lower intensity always the same intensities of pain, and then the other group where we wanted to create some unreliable information some more variable information we actually varied treatment effects or sometimes that was more pain relieving and sometimes there was less pain relieving. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment -- placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Any medical treatment is surrounded by a psychosocial context that affects the therapeutic outcome. (jneurosci.org)
  • To do this, a sham treatment (the placebo) is given, but the patient believes it is effective and expects a clinical improvement. (jneurosci.org)
  • The placebo effect, or response, is the outcome after the sham treatment. (jneurosci.org)
  • In a recent analysis, he sheds light on the variability of these effects by comparing three types of healing encounters: Navajo ceremonial chants, acupuncture treatment in the Western world, and the biomedical provision of health care. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Dr George Lewith comments: "By indicating a very specific neuronal pathway for acupuncture treatment, this research is an important step forward for understanding the basic mechanisms involved in acupuncture and placebo. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • In medicine many factors can influence the way a placebo works : the way the treatment is presented (serious, professional-looking, high-tech, 'proven to work', etc.), the expectations of others in one's recovery, the reassurance given by the medical specialists, and most importantly the belief and confidence that the doctor and patient have in the treatment. (eupedia.com)
  • The effectiveness of placebo treatment seems to be closely related to the relationship between the patient and caregiver. (uclahealth.org)
  • If a medical provider takes time to deliver the placebo treatment with compassion, the treatment has a higher likelihood of being successful. (uclahealth.org)
  • If a trial featured all people who respond strongly to placebos in the control group, for instance, the results would skew toward indicating that the drug treatment was completely ineffective. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Whether open-label placebo is a way out of this dilemma is questionable, given the limited data basis for comparison with effective treatment modalities available. (frontiersin.org)
  • The placebo effect refers to an increase in the success of a treatment when a patient expects a benefit. (healthday.com)
  • This is consistent with previous research showing that expectations affect treatment outcome,' he noted in a university news release. (healthday.com)
  • In Jo Marchant's " A Placebo Treatment for Pain " in the New York Times this month, she writes of a 2014 study that found that a placebo was 60% as effective as a pain pill. (mcknights.com)
  • Fifty of those women, ages 35-55, were randomly chosen to receive a placebo instead of a drug treatment for low sexual arousal. (utexas.edu)
  • The findings from our study show how a woman's expectations to improve sexually can have a substantial positive effect on her sexual well-being without any actual drug treatment," Meston says. (utexas.edu)
  • Cancer treatment side effects such as nausea and fatigue. (finerminds.com)
  • One needs to be mentally healthy and believe that the treatment (placebo) is the ideal thing. (finerminds.com)
  • As a placebo patient, one needs to go through a treatment process, (even though you won't be given real drugs), in order to experience the benefits. (finerminds.com)
  • But the question is, what happens when you find out you are getting a placebo instead of a real treatment? (finerminds.com)
  • Placebo treatment is effective differently in different diseases - but is it also harmless? (philpapers.org)
  • What You Don't Know Can Help You: The Ethics of Placebo Treatment. (philpapers.org)
  • When a person believes that the medication that he takes or the medical treatment is causing him to fill better, even when the treatment has no biological effect. (rapidtables.com)
  • The current work yields further support to the utility of fMRI to objectify treatment effects on osteoarthritis pain. (upf.edu)
  • Although promising, a randomized control trial evaluating the microbiome as a response to the treatment intervention would be extremely helpful in defining the true role of effect," he added. (medscape.com)
  • 10 mg/L were included and randomized to active treatment with 10 mg piroxicam daily or placebo. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Basal expression of Hsp27 in monocytes without heat challenge (WHC) was positively correlated with FR at baseline and significantly increased by treatment with piroxicam compared to placebo. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overview of Drugs A drug is defined by U.S. law as any substance (other than a food or device) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, relief, treatment, or prevention of disease or intended to affect the structure. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Longitudinal regression analyses that followed participants throughout the treatment period showed significantly greater downward slopes per week on the 10 point arm pain scale in the sham device group than in the placebo pill group ( - 0.33 ( - 0.40 to -0.26)v -0.15 (-0.21 to - 0.09), P = 0.0001) and on the symptom severity scale ( - 0.07 ( - 0.09 to - 0.05) v - 0.05 ( - 0.06 to - 0.03), P = 0.02). (cdc.gov)
  • A national quality register, measuring the effects the OA self-management programme has as a first-line treatment method for people with OA. (lu.se)
  • Instead of arguing that their quackery has any specific healing effects, they claim that it "harnesses the power of placebo" to induce "natural healing" or (one of their favorite terms) "mind-body healing. (scienceblogs.com)
  • in some cases, doctors have managed to induce the opposite effect of the prescribed pill just by telling the patient that it would have that opposite effect. (eupedia.com)
  • The results showed that the placebo had a positive effect on the participants' well-being when it was prescribed together with a psychological narrative and in the context of a friendly relationship. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Typically, half the study's participants are given the drug, and half are given an identical-looking placebo. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Ideally, neither the participants nor the investigators know who received the drug and who received the placebo (this type of study is called a double-blind study). (msdmanuals.com)
  • When the study is completed, all changes observed in participants taking the active drug are compared with those in participants taking the placebo. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In some studies, as many as 50% of participants taking the placebo improve (an example of the placebo effect), making it difficult to show the effectiveness of the drug being tested. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Comparison of participants who remained on placebo continued beyond the run-in period to the end of the study. (cdc.gov)
  • We investigate critically seven common conceptual distinctions that impede clear understanding of the placebo effect: (1) verum/placebo, (2) active/inactive, (3) signal/noise, (4) specific/nonspecific, (5) objective/subjective, (6) disease/illness, and (7) intervention/context. (philpapers.org)
  • A placebo is made to look exactly like a real drug but is made of an inactive substance, such as a starch or sugar. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Two editions later, the placebo had become "a make-believe medicine," allegedly inactive and harmless. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Psychotherapy and placebos are both psychological interventions that not only have comparable effects, but that are also based on very similar mechanisms. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Different from placebo controls in drug trails, effective blinding is difficult to achieve, e.g. in psychotherapy and thus, hampers validity of many trials and conclusions in the past. (frontiersin.org)
  • Psychotherapy and the placebo effect. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mar. 30, 2020 A new study suggests that, in the right context, some people may experience psychedelic-like effects from placebos alone. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Therefore, it is important to emphasize that the study of the placebo effect is the study of the psychosocial context around the patient. (jneurosci.org)
  • The study of the placebo effect, at its core, is the study of how the context of beliefs and values shape brain processes related to perception and emotion and, ultimately, mental and physical health. (jneurosci.org)
  • The study of the placebo effect reflects a current neuroscientific thought that has as its central tenet the idea that "subjective" constructs such as expectation and value have identifiable physiological bases, and that these bases are powerful modulators of basic perceptual, motor, and internal homeostatic processes. (jneurosci.org)
  • In the same study, if the placebo response was obtained after exposure to opioid drugs, it was naloxone reversible, whereas if it was obtained after exposure to non-opioid drugs, it was naloxone insensitive. (jneurosci.org)
  • Whether or not you're the kind of person who feels better after taking a placebo may have something to do with your genes, though, as a new study from Trends in Molecular Medicine argues. (mentalfloss.com)
  • A new study shows that while CBD can help people deal with pain, this is due, at least in part, to a placebo effect. (420magazine.com)
  • The studies reviewed in the 2011 Gerontology article consider the placebo not as a control condition but as a substance worthy of study in and of itself, investigating factors that influence its level of effectiveness. (mcknights.com)
  • The placebo effect of currency devaluation had so many professional economists on the payroll that the Laffer/Miles study was laughed off. (wanniski.com)
  • This study examined whether WTS frequency was associated with differential puff topography, toxicant exposure, and subjective response using a placebo-control design. (nih.gov)
  • This study was designed to determine the effects of zinc supplementation on glucose homeostasis parameters and lipid concentrations in GDM women. (eurekamag.com)
  • Results of this study are promising, and additional studies would support the novel probiotic blend's efficacy, safety, and durability of effect," said Harris during her presentation at the virtual American College of Gastroenterology 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting. (medscape.com)
  • However, one of the limitations of this study is the potential for a marked placebo effect, he told Medscape Medical News . (medscape.com)
  • There was a study done in which fake surgeries were the placebo. (tonybelieves.com)
  • The first study that proved the placebo effect was actually a real, measurable effect, was completed in 1978 on a test group who had just had their wisdom teeth removed. (prescottdentistry.com)
  • The study showed that a certain group of "placebo-responders" responded to the placebo suggesting the pill activated natural endogenous pain relief chemicals. (prescottdentistry.com)
  • in placebo studies, people told that a specific activity (e.g. cleaning hotel rooms) had a beneficial effect on health indeed became healthier over time compared to the control group that was not informed of such benefits while carrying out the same activity. (eupedia.com)
  • New research suggests that there may be a biochemical reason for why placebos help people feel better. (uclahealth.org)
  • People with chronic and stress-related conditions have the strongest response to placebos. (uclahealth.org)
  • New evidence sheds light on why some people and some conditions respond better to placebos. (uclahealth.org)
  • People with Parkinson's disease, depression and schizophrenia have shown a strong response to placebos in clinical trials. (uclahealth.org)
  • They also told some people that they were getting CBD rather than the placebo. (420magazine.com)
  • After his life falls apart, Drew rebuilds himself by selling placebo medication to the people whose lives are in more of a shamble than his own. (overdrive.com)
  • It's important to note, however, that placebos aren't effective for people with dementia. (mcknights.com)
  • Recent studies support these claims, but also suggest that people who are more optimistic tend to benefit more from the use of placebos. (finerminds.com)
  • And some people might not benefit from taking a placebo. (finerminds.com)
  • Placebos work most times because people don't know it's what they are receiving. (finerminds.com)
  • Asthma affects millions of people worldwide. (bmj.com)
  • This effect is used by witch doctors to 'cure' sick people. (rapidtables.com)
  • Benedetti has since shown that a saline placebo can also reduce tremors and muscle stiffness in people with Parkinson's disease . (newscientist.com)
  • For some people, a placebo actually works. (prescottdentistry.com)
  • Taking it along with other supplements with similar effects might cause too much sleepiness and/or slowed breathing in some people. (medlineplus.gov)
  • People who have a positive opinion of drugs, doctors, nurses, and hospitals are more likely to respond favorably to placebos than are people who have a negative opinion. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The aim of the InterVitaminK trial is to investigate the effects of vitamin K supplementation (menaquinone-7, MK-7) on cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory and bone health in a general ageing population with detectable vascular calcification. (lu.se)
  • To the best of our knowledge, no reports are available indicating the effects of zinc supplementation on metabolic status in women with gestational diabetes (GDM). (eurekamag.com)
  • Taken together, 30mg zinc supplementation per day for 6weeks among GDM women had beneficial effects on metabolic profiles. (eurekamag.com)
  • Therefore, a doctor in practice, whose training has drummed into him that "real" medicine means drugs and surgery, will shrug off the placebo effect as psychosomatic, or "it's all in your head. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The placebo effect works better for psychosomatic or mental conditions. (rapidtables.com)
  • The purpose of placebo is to produce a physiological response through a psychological stimulus. (eupedia.com)
  • alternative medicines, like homoeopathy, acupuncture or hypnosis, rely a lot on rituals to cause a psycho-physiological effect. (eupedia.com)
  • Recent research has shown that the placebo effect isn't just psychological-it's physiological. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Even woo-meisters like Chopra have noticed that the more rigorous and large the clinical trial of their favorite CAM modalities, the less distinguishable from placebo effects they become. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Placebo Effects and the Common Cold: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
  • Q-CABG is a phase II, prospectively registered, randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled clinical trial. (frontiersin.org)
  • Methods and analysis The InterVitaminK trial is a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, trial. (lu.se)
  • This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was performed among 58 women diagnosed with GDM, primigravida and aged 18-40years old. (eurekamag.com)
  • Methods In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, 56 women aged 30-55 years were randomized to receive 2.5 g of CH or 5 g of placebo once daily for 8 weeks, with 28 subjects assigned to each group. (pieronline.jp)
  • When you do an open-label trial in functional diseases, there's a high placebo rate response. (medscape.com)
  • Design: A single blind randomised controlled trial created from the two week placebo run-in periods for two nested trials that compared acupuncture and amitriptyline with their respective placebo controls. (cdc.gov)
  • The observed effect was strongest after administering the placebo but remained evident for up to one week. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This placebo, which is taught in schools of higher learning everywhere, is based on the observation that the Great Depression ended when the U.S. entered WWII and borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars from U.S. citizens to finance the production of war material. (wanniski.com)
  • Honest placebos could be tailored to the desires of the resident. (mcknights.com)
  • This exploits the placebo effect in an honest manner, without the snake oil, religion, magnets, plastic wristbands, homeopathy or other bullshit for which the hard of thinking are charged small fortunes. (halfbakery.com)
  • When Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin in Italy carried out the above experiment, he added a final twist by adding naloxone, a drug that blocks the effects of morphine, to the saline. (newscientist.com)
  • On the Vijf Meiplein in Leiden, Andrea Evers' placebo team pitched its tent to everyone who wanted to know more about the effect of words and expectations. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • What's more, when the actual pain medication was labeled "placebo," it reached 60% of its usual effectiveness. (mcknights.com)
  • A team under Falk Eippert in Hamburg, Germany reports they have direct evidence that the placebo effect starts in the spine. (zdnet.com)
  • So what's a quack to do, when faced with a growing and persuasive body of evidence consistent with the contention that his favorite modalities don't do anything, that they function primarily as placebo? (scienceblogs.com)
  • Led by Kathryn Hall of Harvard Medical School, a group of scientists reviewed previous research for evidence of a genetic variation in the placebo effect by looking for correlations between certain genetic mutations and the strength of a person's placebo response. (mentalfloss.com)
  • With this evidence, it's looking like the placebo response is even more complicated than we thought. (mentalfloss.com)
  • CONCLUSION: The data reported here represent the first in vitro demonstration of the effect of waterpipe smoke on cellular parameters providing evidence of the potential involvement of WPS in the pathogenesis of COPD through impairing cellular growth and inducing inflammation. (who.int)
  • For example, a placebo can reduce pain by both opioid and non-opioid mechanisms ( Colloca and Benedetti, 2005 ) ( Fig. 1 ). (jneurosci.org)
  • In an experimental model of pain ( Amanzio and Benedetti, 1999 ), the placebo response could be blocked by naloxone if it was induced by strong expectation cues, whereas if the expectation cues were reduced, it was insensitive to naloxone. (jneurosci.org)
  • We have a lot to learn about what is happening here, Benedetti says, but one thing is clear: the mind can affect the body's biochemistry. (newscientist.com)
  • the existence of placebo effects suggests that we must broaden our conception of the limits of endogenous human capability. (jneurosci.org)
  • The team's earlier work found that CBD and its corresponding expectancy effects did not so much reduce experimental pain intensity as make it more bearable. (420magazine.com)
  • The placebo effects won't work on conditions like blood sugar or blood pressure. (finerminds.com)
  • The manner in which placebos work is still a big mystery. (finerminds.com)
  • However, the importance of a healthy mind is still vital to how the placebo effects work. (finerminds.com)
  • Placebos don't work by relying on brainpower alone. (finerminds.com)
  • Self-induced placebo: Does it work? (finerminds.com)
  • Could self-induced placebo work? (finerminds.com)
  • EMS scores, FR and grip work (GW), a measure taking into account GS and FR, significantly improved with piroxicam, but not with placebo. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As we've discussed the placebo response over the past couple of weeks-and how physicians can harness that power through their manner and behaviors-it is important to recognize the immense impact that cultural context can have on our healing process. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Common genetic mutations called Single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, have been implicated in changing the placebo response in clinical trials. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Hall and her team found 11 of these SNPs to be associated with the placebo response in previous research, including those in the dopamine system (the brain's reward system), the serotonin system (which deals with mood), and the opioid and cannabinoid systems (which both deal with pain). (mentalfloss.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: fMRI was sensitive to objectify CS effects on brain response to painful pressure on patellofemoral cartilage, which is consistent with the known CS action on chondrocyte regeneration. (upf.edu)
  • The fact that psychological placebos can have significant effects is not only important for understanding psychological interventions: "It challenges both research and clinical practice to address these mechanisms and effects, as well as their ethical implications. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A placebo is often thought of as a harmless substance used as a control in research to determine the effect of actual medications. (mcknights.com)
  • On 4 April, the placebo team organised a day for an insight into their placebo research. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • Past research indicated that the more neurotic an individual is, the more effective the placebo effect would be. (finerminds.com)
  • Implications of placebo theory for clinical research and practice in pain management. (philpapers.org)
  • Reported adverse effects were different in the two groups. (cdc.gov)
  • Placebos can also have effects when specific psychological effects are attributed to them. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This is why I like to read the copy on, say, a bottle of hair conditioner - to enhance its psychological effects … I'm only half-kidding. (mcknights.com)
  • A web page headed with something to the effect that by pushing the button, your particular ailment may be relieved by means of the well documented and proven placebo effect. (halfbakery.com)
  • The placebo effect in functional disorders]. (bvsalud.org)
  • This article discusses the placebo effect in functional disorders without omitting to address ethical and philosophical considerations. (bvsalud.org)
  • Placebos and the philosophy of medicine : clinical, conceptual, and ethical issues / Howard Brody. (who.int)
  • In order to be proven effective, the experimental medication must be significantly more beneficial to subjects than the placebo because simply receiving a pill is found to have beneficial effects. (mcknights.com)
  • RESULTS: fMRI of patella pain showed significantly greater activation reduction under CS compared with placebo in the region of the mesencephalic periaquecductal gray. (upf.edu)
  • Results Levels of skin hydration, elasticity and roughness in subjects who received CH significantly improved between baseline and weeks 4 and 8, while there was no significant improvement in subjects who received placebo. (pieronline.jp)
  • Moreover, the levels of skin elasticity, roughness and the net change of skin hydration improved significantly in the CH group compared to the placebo group by both weeks 4 and 8. (pieronline.jp)
  • The drug must perform significantly better than the placebo to justify its use. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Social contact and laughter have a measurable effect for several hours. (psychcentral.com)
  • Plasma nicotine concentrations increased when smoking active (but not placebo) with no significant differences between groups at 25min post-product administration. (nih.gov)
  • Additionally, significant differences in serum triglycerides (+13.6±61.4 vs. +45.9±36.5mg/dL, P=0.01) and VLDL-cholesterol concentrations (+2.7±12.3 vs. +9.2±7.3mg/dL, P=0.01) were observed following the administration of zinc supplements compared with the placebo.We did not observe any significant effects of taking zinc supplements on other lipid profiles. (eurekamag.com)
  • The following excerpt is from my book, How Healing Works , and provides my experience in understanding just how influential cultural context can be on the effect of a placebo in triggering our own inherent ability to heal and recover. (psychologytoday.com)
  • For example, a placebo will never make a broken bone heal faster, but it may make the pain seem less. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A 2011 review in the journal Gerontology suggests that the use of a placebo may be a worthwhile tool in this effort. (mcknights.com)
  • Spinal manipulation (SM) has been shown to have an effect on the pressure pain threshold (PPT) in asymptomatic subjects, but SM has never been compared in studies on this topic to a validated sham procedure. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Certain studies have shown that altruism and thrill-seeking behaviors may be an underlying link, and others have suggested that the effect is actually a result of the ritual of going to the doctor and the human connection provided not the pill itself. (prescottdentistry.com)
  • When a new drug is being developed, investigators conduct studies to compare the effect of the drug with that of a placebo because any drug can have a placebo effect, unrelated to its action. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Despite knowing that the pill they were taking was a placebo it was still half as effective as the pain medication. (mcknights.com)
  • While placebos are clearly not going to be effective for every resident in every circumstance, for willing residents with certain ailments they can be an effective, inexpensive, side-effect-free aid worth trying before adding another medication to a resident's drug regimen. (mcknights.com)
  • For me Placebo is just another way for curing diseases. (eupedia.com)
  • You can't trick your body into believing that the placebo you took can help cure conditions like tumor, cancer and other life-threatening diseases. (finerminds.com)
  • There may be diseases in which it has no effect. (newscientist.com)
  • Reexamination of the ethics of placebo use in clinical practice. (philpapers.org)
  • This time around, Chopra is delving into placebo medicine. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In other words, the vast majority of CAM is placebo medicine . (scienceblogs.com)
  • The difference is that he puts a somewhat different spin on placebo medicine in an article entitled I Will Not Be Pleased - Your Health and the Nocebo Effect . (scienceblogs.com)
  • The placebo effect is real medicine, because it triggers the body's healing system. (scienceblogs.com)
  • One could argue that this is the best medicine, in fact, since: a. drugs do not trigger the healing system and b. the placebo effect has no side effects. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Yes, just as I've been discussing so recently, this is nothing more than alternative medicine as The Secret or, as I put it before a while back, viewing placebo effects as nothing more than wish fulfillment, a pure manifestation of The Secret . (scienceblogs.com)
  • So far, Chopra's just using standard alt-med placebo medicine boilerplate. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Medicine in every culture and every age has used the placebo effect abundantly. (eupedia.com)
  • In other words, a strong psychological placebo can trump the power of an actual medicine. (eupedia.com)
  • Why wouldn't you want to feel better without having to pay for real medicine (which might also come with annoying side effects)? (mentalfloss.com)
  • It is my considered opinion that the economic textbooks are replete with economic myths the equivalent of the placebo effect in medicine. (wanniski.com)
  • In the words of Suzanne Derksen: The placebo effect is a bit like the magician 'Hans Klok' of medicine. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • The findings, available online in the Journal of Sexual Medicine , show that on average, one in three of the women who took a placebo showed an overall improvement. (utexas.edu)
  • Placebo controls and epistemic control in orthodox medicine. (philpapers.org)
  • When compared to a valid sham procedure and with successfully blinded subjects, there is no regional or remote effect of spinal manipulation of the thoracic spine on the pressure pain threshold in a young pain-free population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Interventions: Acupuncture with sham device twice a week for six weeks or placebo pill once a day for eight weeks. (cdc.gov)
  • Results: Pain decreased during the two week placebo run-in period in both the sham device and placebo pill groups, but changes were not different between the groups ( - 0.14, 95% confidence interval - 0.52 to 0.25, P = 0.49). (cdc.gov)
  • For instance, stimulants usually come in warm colours (red, orange, yellow), because that it is the natural association made by the human mind with a stimulant effect (tranquilizers and anti-depressants are typically blue or green). (eupedia.com)