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1.
DEFINITIONS
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Placebo
• Nocebo
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OVERVIEW
a. The Placebo Effect
b. The Healing Power of Placebos
3. THE SCIENCE OF PLACEBOS
a. Biological Aspects
b. Psychological Aspects
c Clinical Aspects
4. PLACEBOS AND PAIN
5. PLACEBOS AND DEPRESSION
6. RESEARCH
7. ETHICS AND PLACEBOS
8. RESOURCES
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DEFINITIONS
Placebo/Nocebo
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PLACEBO
1. Placebo:
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A substance containing no medication and prescribed or given
to reinforce a patient's expectation to get well.
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An inactive substance or preparation used as a control in an
experiment or test to determine the effectiveness of a medicinal
drug.
2. Something of no intrinsic remedial value that is used to appease
or reassure another.
Placebo:
A placebo is an inactive substance used in clinical trials as
a control, with which comparisons can be made to the real drug.
It is used to determine if any effects are real or psychological.
NOCEBO
Nocebo
-- WorldWideWords.com
Nocebo
-- MedTerms.com
The
Nocebo Effect - Placebo's Evil Twin
Placebo
and Nocebo: Effects and phenomena in general practice"
"Everybody
knows what a placebo is, until you ask him"
"A Placebo is an agent, whose assumption is not consistent
with the art of natural science, so that its effect could be proved
for the purpose of treatment by accepted law of causality"
Nocebo is not only a cause but often a result ."
Skeptics
Dictionary:
Placebo
Effect
Nocebo Effect
The
Placebo Effect: Real or Imagined?
The
most common use of placebos is to test new medications. Previous
studies have shown that patients respond to a placebo according
to their expectations. Placebos are often more effective after
the patient has received the actual drug. Scientists can only
speculate on how the placebo effect works.
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CEU
Article #1
Newsletter CEU: NL1205
The
Healing Power of Placebos
Research
has confirmed that a fake treatment, made from an inactive
substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution,
can have a "placebo effect"-- that is, the sham
medication can sometimes improve a patient's condition simply
because the person has the expectation that it will be helpful.
For a given medical condition, it's not unusual for one-third
of patients to feel better in response to treatment with
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The
Placebo effect
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Types of placebos
- The
misconception of ‘imaginary’ disorders
- Influencing
factors
- How
placebos work
- The
argument against placebos
- The
placebo effect is doubted by some
- Things
to remember
What's
wrong with the placebo effect?
(An opinion)
Biological Aspects
The
Scientist: The Biological Basis of the Placebo Effect, Dec.
9, 2002
Imaging technologies bring empirical rigor to the study of a mysterious
medical phenomenon.
Psychological
Aspects
Feelings
of hope create striking brain effects that could help alleviate
serious afflications like pain, Parkinson's Disease and Depression,
Researchers report.
“But only now are researchers finding scientific evidence
that hope uses the same neurological pathways to heal, as does
real medication. ”
A
new spin on the placebo effect
"Research
is showing the power of expectations, that they have physical
- not just psychological - effects on your health."
Clinical
Aspects
Harnessing
the Placebo Effect
Moreover, it is clear that the placebo effect extends beyond medications
to elements of the patient-physician encounter itself. In fact,
the term "placebo effect" may be inadequate to describe
this wide-ranging benefit; it would probably be more accurate
to speak of "the response to the healing situation."
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