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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Placebo effects"”.
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Cultural differences on placebo effects elicited by pharmaceutical ads
Placebo and nocebo effects have been a widely concerning issue, as they describe the psychological factors influencing medication outcomes. Previous research mostly focused on how placebo and nocebo effects occur, offering explanations for their mechanisms. Individual differences, especially at the …
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Pattern Analysis of Response to Acute Fluoxetine Treatment in the Prediction of Relapse in Children and Adolescents
… drug efficacy due to the prevalence of placebo effects that are especially prominent in this population, and likewise, placebo responding clouds clinical decisions regarding which patients will benefit from continuation treatment to prevent relapse. Using the method of pattern analysis, …
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The role of branding and pricing on health outcomes via the placebo response
… a medical treatment, this effect may modify the placebo response. As the placebo response modifies the overall effect of the treatment in an additive manner, this implies that marketing factors may have a direct effect on medical outcomes, particularly in disorders that have large placebo …
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Adverse Events Following a Medication Change: Psychological Contributors to a Health Scare
… in the number of patients reporting side effects and reduced medication efficacy. However, extensive testing of the new formulation found that the new tablets contained only the stated binding agents and the correct dosage of the active ingredient. The lack of pharmacological explanations …
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Motivation and the placebo response : predicting non-specific therapeutic benefits from the concordance of therapeutic rituals with high-level goals
Predicting individual differences in placebo responding has proved hard. Predictions from dispositional or personality variables are unreliable for two reasons: first, because dispositional predictions fail to account for situational variability, and second, because the dimensions identified in …
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The role of the prefrontal cortex in hypnotic and placebo analgesia.
… have referred to hypnosis as a mega placebo (Kirsch, 1997) or “hypnobo” (Raz, 2007) suggesting that hypnosis and placebo are effectively the same phenomenon. However, there is evidence that their mechanisms of action are different (Parris, 2016a) and that whilst placebo effects rely …
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Expectation, the placebo effect and Parkinson's disease : an investigation using high-resolution positron emission tomography
The placebo effect represents a fascinating example of how cognition can influence the physiology of the brain and body. The expectation of therapeutic benefit elicited by a placebo given in the guise of active medication has been proposed to be a form of reward expectation, and is associated with …
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Design and clinical feasibility of an immersive robotic intervention for phantom limb pain
… of force feedback, implemented to examine its effects on perceived levels of pain. Participants received nine hours of robotic intervention in total, conducted over a three week period (three hours per week) followed by two follow up questionnaire sessions to determine if any potential pain …
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Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modelling to Advance Perioperative Anaesthesia and Analgesia
… of anaesthesia involves creating profound drug effects (i.e. lack of awareness and sensation) and then reversing these rapidly. Endpoints are achieved by combining drugs that collectively contribute to desired effects. This requires an understanding of the pharmacological profile of drugs when …