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| | Placebo effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | When patients who claimed to experience pain relief after receiving a placebo were injected with naloxone (a drug that blocks the effects of opiates), their pain returned, suggesting that the placebo effect may be partly due to the release of natural opiates [8]. | | | The authors concluded that the placebo effect does not have "powerful clinical effects," and that patient-reported improvements in pain were small and could not be clearly distinguished from bias. | | | The placebo effect is an active area of research and discussion and it is possible that a clear consensus regarding the use of placebos in medical practice will emerge in the future. |
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| | Placebo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Experimenters typically use placebos in the context of a clinical trial, in which a "test group" of patients receives the therapy being tested, and a "control group" receives the placebo. | | | Ethicists have also raised concerns on the use of placebos in those circumstances in which a standard treatment exists unless there are genuine doubts of the effectivity of such standard treatment. | | | Bioethicists have raised diverse concerns on the use of placebos in modern medicine and research. |
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| | placebo effect |
| | The placebo effect may be a measurement of changed behavior affected by a belief in the treatment. | | | Those who believe there is scientific evidence for the placebo effect point to clinical studies, many of which use a control group treated with a placebo. | | | Dermatitis medicamentosa and angioneurotic edema have resulted from placebo therapy, according to Dodes. |
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| | More on the Placebo Effect by Jeremy Donovan |
| | Placebo effects are influenced by patient-healer interpersonal relationships and are increased in pleasant, nonthreatening, efficient clinical settings with doctors who are perceived by patients as warm, likable, and interested in them. | | | The nocebo effect is the causation of sickness by expectations of sickness and by associated emotional states. | | | Placebo stimuli must reflect a credible therapy for the patient. |
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http://www.sustainedaction.org/Explorations/more_on_the_placebo_effect.htm
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| | The Placebo Effect |
| | For example, when a patient with acute pain has a favorable attitude toward medicines and is given a placebo by a concerned and confident physician, a better response may occur than when a patient with chronic pain who views drugs as dangerous chemicals is given a placebo by a gruff physician who appears uncertain. | | | A placebo may be any therapeutic maneuver, including surgical and psychologic techniques, or medication in any form (eg, oral, parenteral, topical; this discussion is limited to drugs. | | | Placebo addicts: At least 2 patients have been reported who were addicted to placebos. |
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| | The Placebo Effect |
| | The placebo effect is clearly psychological in nature, and it somehow involves the thought processes of the patient causing the body to heal itself. | | | The placebo effect can be thought of as the normal functioning of the body's built-in healing power, and is almost certainly the same as the Chinese chi, or energy, which is thought to be present throughout the body and provide health and vitality. | | | Acupuncture, for example, has been shown to have a larger effect when a real needle is used to puncture the skin than when a fake needle is used which doesn't puncture the skin, even though the patient does not know which is being used. |
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| | Spontaneous Remission and the Placebo Effect |
| | A placebo may be used in medicine to satisfy a patient that something is being done. | | | The importance of placebo effects in pain treatment and research. | | | In addition to any physiologic effects, their use can exert a psychologic force that may be reinforced by the relationship between the patient and the practitioner. |
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http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/placebo.html
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| | Bias Effects in Research |
| | Placebo effects operate through psychosocial mechanisms such as belief, conditioning, expectancy, and meaning response. | | | An important goal is to understand what factors are necessary to elicit a placebo effect in clinical practice so that the benefits of the therapeutic intervention can be enhanced to improve health and promote wellness. | | | The evolving status of the placebo, from negative perceptions as unwanted statistical noise in clinical trials or "fake" treatments, to a positive one that appreciates the potential for therapeutic value. |
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http://dl.usfca.edu/~andreatta/bias_effects/placebo.htm
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| | The Health Report: 12 April 2004 - The Placebo Effect |
| | Modulation of cortical-limbic pathways in major depression: treatment specific effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. | | | In fact, when you step back, without the bias of that previous placebo response, and think about what really should have happened, your construct of the process to recovery with drug, is you were shaped as a patient, that I have a chemical imbalance, I’m taking a medication that will alter my brain biochemistry. | | | What’s really important about that in light of our imaging results, is that in fact it makes sense that the path to recovery is coming at brain mechanisms in different ways, but different depressed patients, the state of their brain at the point they require treatment may be very different. |
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| | Place for placebo effect? |
| | Because the placebo effect could explain why such alternative approaches as energy healing or prayer can work -- without a doctor touching a patient or giving a single drug -- the research is part of the new interest in studying complementary and alternative medicine. | | | Context determines expectations, and expectations are the root of the placebo effect. | | | The placebo effect has never been popular among medical doctors, who have made it less welcome than a hungry pack of coyotes at a shepherd's convention. |
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| | frontline: the alternative fix: snake oil: the placebo effect PBS |
| | Allopathic doctors have tended to see the placebo as something that is useless in their practice, and believe, in fact, that is unethical to give because it's a kind of deception. | | | Placebo responses are pure healing responses from within that are elicited by belief. | | | Alternative practitioners argue that the placebo should be regarded as just as valuable as a drug. |
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| | Therapeutic Placebo Effect by P Kinser |
| | This is an example of the placebo effect - a self-made natural healing response of the body. | | | The placebo effect is proof of the fact that the mind can influence the body in a powerful and therapeutic way. | | | If these are positive effects of alternative therapies (which the medical world claims are placebo effects), then the placebo effect must demonstrate the amazing power of our mind. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web1/Kinser.html
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| | AUTCOM: The Placebo Effect |
| | Experts agree that it is not "magic." Placebos seem to help patients turn on their own pain relief mechanisms, called endorphins, or simply to summon a more positive sense of themselves and their ability to take charge of their bodies. | | | Standard figures for the effectiveness of placebos have suggested that about 40% of patients receiving a useless or inert remedy will experience relief from the targeted ailment. | | | The real story of the placebo effect may be the story of our failure to see where the power really lies. |
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| | CBS News Is There A Place For Placebos? April 7, 2005 02:00:02 |
| | Perhaps 50 percent of the effect of seeing a physician is "based on the doctor-patient relationship, the art of medicine, and it's not acknowledged," he adds. | | | The study suggested a practical use of the placebo effect by doctors, said one of the researchers. | | | "Placebo is really about the patient-doctor relationship; it's about how people respond to symbols; it's about the intangible parts of medicine," such as the inherent capacity of human beings for self-healing. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/06/health/printable686152.shtml
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| | MDD July/August 1999: The Mysterious Placebo Effect |
| | Like therapeutic effects, adverse responses to a placebo may have many determinants, including negative expectations or conditioning that might result from a distrust of doctors, many failed treatment attempts, or the side-effect warnings included in the informed consent. | | | Three major mechanisms have been proposed to explain placebo-evoked improvement: release of endorphins in response to the placebo stimulus (the “opioid model”), a learned response to medical intervention (the “conditioning model”), or a more consciously mediated response (the “meaning” or expectancy model) (4). | | | Outside the context of modern clinical trials, “placebo” has been a term reserved for characterizing the substandard practices of other less ethical or knowledgeable healers, if not outright quacks and frauds. |
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http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/mdd/99/aug/mysterious.html
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| | Placebo effect causes a natural high The Register |
| | Explanatory note: The placebo effect is defined very nicely (here), as "a beneficial effect in a patient following a particular treatment that arises from the patient's expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself". | | | It follows, then, that a placebo is a non-active 'medication' that a patient believes to be a drug of some kind. | | | The researchers say this is the first direct evidence that endorphins can help explain how the placebo effect works. |
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| | StudyWorks! Online : The Placebo Effect: Real or Imagined? |
| | This keeps the attitude of the researcher from affecting the condition of the patients and, therefore, the outcome of the study. | | | For example, surgery patients who receive pain medication the first day and a placebo the second day report greater pain relief from the placebo than those who receive the placebo first and the pain medication second. | | | No matter what the outcome, placebos will continue to be given to people in drug trials since double blind studies prevent the bias of the researchers from influencing the results. |
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| | Consciousness and the Placebo Effect |
| | The placebo effect occurs when the placebo, which can not on its own merit have any affect, does in fact have the same or similar affect as the experimental substance or procedure (1). | | | In the end, the placebo effect is a struggle in maintaining a co-habitative environment for the mind's prior experiences and the body's desire to reach beyond its present state. | | | In light of the rewarding effects depicted in rats and rhesus monkeys it seems plausible that in humans, a placebo, which has no inert effects, is somehow influencing the levels of neurotransmitters in the body. |
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| | Revealed: How Placebo Effect Works |
| | While the body still experiences the sensation of pain, the brain processes it differently when relief is expected -- the placebo effect, he explains. | | | The researchers wanted to see if the placebo "pain reliever" would alter the sensation of the pain in the brain. | | | A new study provides evidence that a placebo -- the mere expectation of relief, with no real treatment -- causes physical changes in how the brain responds to pain, writes lead researcher Tor D. Wager, PhD, a psychologist with the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. |
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| | Placebo Effects Prove the Value of Suggestion |
| | In nearly half of all reported drug research, placebos were as effective as the drug being researched. | | | These subjects for whom the suggestion of drinking alcohol produced inebriated-like behavior were exhibiting a placebo effect. | | | In fact, there is hardly any human characteristic or problem that has not been shown to be affected by placebos in one research or other. |
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| | ScienceDaily: Placebo Effect: Harnessing Your Mind's Power To Heal |
| | Beliefs or expectations, including the meaning you attach to a treatment: A person with positive expectations of the treatment may experience the placebo effect more than someone with lower expectations. | | | All Placebos Not Created Alike: In A Trial Of Sham Acupuncture Vs. Oral Placebo Pill, Patients Experienced Greater Pain Reduction From Sham Device (February 8, 2006) -- While researchers usually use placebos in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of a new treatment, this trial pitted one placebo against another. | | | Relationship with your doctor: A person whose doctor is supportive and positive may experience more benefit from a placebo -- or the standard treatment -- than someone who doesn't have that relationship. |
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| | The Straight Dope Mailbag: The Straight Dope Mailbag: Is there an "anti- placebo" effect? |
| | The study is entitled "Is the Placebo Powerless?—An Analysis of Clinical Trials Comparing Placebo with No Treatment," by Danish researchers A. Hrobjartsson and P. Gotzsche, New England Journal of Medicine, May 24, 2001. | | | The idea is that the treatment should do better than the placebo, or else there's no point. | | | In one study of people with asthma, deliberate misinformation about the effects of medication reduced its effectiveness by nearly 50%. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine: Books |
| | Yet placebos only work if you believe they work, so the medical confidence in the power of the placebo effect has provided scientific legitimacy to popular claims about the healing powers of the mind. | | | There might not exist enourmous amounts reliable evidence concerning the placebo effect, but I still missed 100 extra pages with more detailed descriptions of the experiments already done as well as a more thourogh presentation of the other placebo theories other than the authors own. | | | In chapter 3, The Acute Phase Response, Evans sets out his theory of the function of a single biological mechanism in the placebo phenomenon; he also states that this is not a proven theory and needs much further research. |
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| | Science plumbs placebo effect csmonitor.com |
| | Last year, Columbia University psychologist Tor D. Wager and colleagues reported that when patients felt pain relief from a placebo, activity decreased in the pain-sensitive areas of their brains. | | | The mere belief that they had received a pain killer was enough to release the brain's natural painkilling endorphins in the patients tested, scientists say. | | | "The findings of this study are counter to the common thought that the placebo effect is purely psychological due to suggestion and that it does not represent a real physical change." says University of Michigan neuroscientist Jon-Kar Zubieta. |
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| | Study reveals mechanism behind placebo effect - Mental Health - MSNBC.com |
| | While previous studies at Michigan and elsewhere have shown how the brain reacts physically to placebos, researchers said this study is the first to pinpoint a specific brain chemistry mechanism. | | | "This deals another serious blow to the idea that the placebo effect is a purely psychological, with no physical basis," said Dr. Jon-Kar Zubieta, associate professor of psychiatry and radiology at the Michigan Medical School. | | | Findings could lead to new ways to treat patients with chronic pain |
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| | CNN.com - Power of the placebo - Feb. 19, 2004 |
| | One region of the brain is activated by the expectation of pain relief, researchers said. | | | It is one reason that they talk up the benefits of a drug as they write the prescription. | | | Just thinking a medicine will make you feel better actually may -- even if it's fake, according to new research examining the placebo effect. |
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| | New Scientist SPACE - Features - 13 things that do not make sense |
| | But once a physicist starts working on the basis of hope he is heading for a fall." Disappointing as it may seem, Nieto thinks the explanation for the Pioneer anomaly will eventually be found in some mundane effect, such as an unnoticed source of heat on board the craft. | | | You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. | | | 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. |
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| | CBS News Homeopathy's Placebo Effect August 26, 2005 15:30:09 |
| | But a new analysis — comparing published studies of homeopathic drugs to matched, randomly selected studies of medical drugs — suggests that these apparent homeopathic drug effects are merely placebo effects. | | | Matthias Egger, MD, director of the department of social and preventive medicine (ISPM) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, led the study. | | | (WebMD) The widely touted benefits of homeopathic drugs are merely placebo effects, a new study suggests. |
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| | What's New in Neurofeedback - April 2001 |
| | Perhaps with hindsight, Kienle and Kiene (1997) warned that "the placebo topic seems to invite sloppy methodological thinking." And sloppy thinking is the hurdle facing any treatment modality which competes (effectively) against the current standard. | | | This code limits the extent of future human experimentation and was the precursor to the Declaration of Helsinki accepted by the World Health Organization in 1964, a declaration to which our governmental and regulatory bodies are expected to prescribe. | | | In 1992, Russell Barkley argued that neurofeedback must be compared to the placebo condition before he would take any claim seriously. |
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| | Discography of Placebo Effect |
| | Placebo Effect,Gargoyles,Galleries of Pain,Slashed Open,Manipulated Mind Control,Past...present (1989-1995),Accessoires,Breathe,Human Flesh,Devil's Hand,Into the Ground,Kill the Fight,The Beast within,Obsession,Danse Macabre,Move,Galery of Pain,Last Day,Hard Work,Mystress,Intoxication,Psychotrauma,Poison Tree,Brain Entrophy,Galleries of Pain (Bloody Pain Remix),Intersection,Move (Animation Remix),Psychological Drama,Devoid of Soul (Salvitation Remix),Autopsia,Agony of Mind, |
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| | Placebo Effect Links |
| | It is likely that much of the response to homeopathic medicines is attributable to the placebo effect. | | | In clinical drug trials, the response of the trial drug is often tested against the inactive placebo. | | | as the difference between The placebo effect is the measurable or observable effect on a person or group that has been given a placebo rather than an active substance. |
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| | Amazon.com: Placebo Effect (2003) : Video |
| | Your comments can help make our site better for everyone. | | | For more information about "Placebo Effect," visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) |
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| | Placebo Effect |
| | Dr Mason has been absorbed into the Wirrrn hive mind, and has been using the facilities of the SSS labs to manufacture a mutagenic drug which will transform anyone who takes it into a Wirrrn. | | | He intends to trick the Foamasi into distributing the drugs to the athletes under the impression that they are performance-enhancing; in fact most of them are placebos with the mutagenic tags attached. | | | Some of the drugs contain a time-release formula, so those who take them will not fully transform into a Wirrrn for months, thus spreading the taint throughout the galaxy... |
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| | Placebo Effect (1998) |
| | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | Placebo Effect: The Return of Sphinx (USA) (working title) | | | There's not much to recommend in this film; the performances are not up to par and the plot has back-flashes that unfold to enlighten us to the actual events that occurred. |
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| | Placebo Effect - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions | | | Placebo Effect - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | When a cab driver (Luciano Saber) uncovers a plot to kill the Vice President, the assassins' plan is foiled, but the cabbie is then drawn into a frightening underworld. |
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