Add to ORKGMany a clinical intervention thrives on placebos. Lack of consensus — both definitional and methodological — however, contributes to general confusion and specious conclusions regarding the legitimacy and relevance of placebos in modern medicine. The apparent divergence between objective and subjective treatment outcomes, moreover, renders placebos clinically meaningless. Asthma provides a clinical model for studying placebos because it highlights how psychology works in concert with pharmacology. Here we examine placebos as valuable adjuncts to, rather than replacements for, pharmacological treatments
Research suggests that a 'placebo' can improve conditions common in primary care including pain, dep...
Placebos are commonly defined as ineffective treatments. They are treatments that lack a known mecha...
There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. I...
Published assertions that only subjective aspects of asthma, such as dyspnea, respond to placebo do ...
Trying to explain the placebo effect has forced researchers to consider human beings as a whole and ...
There is increasing evidence that placebos could be effective in clinical practice. However, knowled...
Clinical trials use placebos with the assumption that they are inert, thus all placebos are consider...
Research suggests that a ‘placebo’ can improve conditions common in primary care including pain, dep...
We provide a new perspective with which to understand what for a half century has been known as the ...
In medical research, the placebo effect is an important methodological tool. Placebo is given to par...
Physicians throughout medical history knew three possible ways to explain the association between tr...
Although placebos have long been considered a nuisance in clinical research, over recent years they ...
The main message we are trying to get across throughout the article is that the placebo is not an in...
Interest in the placebo effect of medicines has developed from the use of placebo treatments as cont...
The 'placebo effect' is a medical enigma. It lies at the heart of modem medical research but remains...
Research suggests that a 'placebo' can improve conditions common in primary care including pain, dep...
Placebos are commonly defined as ineffective treatments. They are treatments that lack a known mecha...
There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. I...
Published assertions that only subjective aspects of asthma, such as dyspnea, respond to placebo do ...
Trying to explain the placebo effect has forced researchers to consider human beings as a whole and ...
There is increasing evidence that placebos could be effective in clinical practice. However, knowled...
Clinical trials use placebos with the assumption that they are inert, thus all placebos are consider...
Research suggests that a ‘placebo’ can improve conditions common in primary care including pain, dep...
We provide a new perspective with which to understand what for a half century has been known as the ...
In medical research, the placebo effect is an important methodological tool. Placebo is given to par...
Physicians throughout medical history knew three possible ways to explain the association between tr...
Although placebos have long been considered a nuisance in clinical research, over recent years they ...
The main message we are trying to get across throughout the article is that the placebo is not an in...
Interest in the placebo effect of medicines has developed from the use of placebo treatments as cont...
The 'placebo effect' is a medical enigma. It lies at the heart of modem medical research but remains...
Research suggests that a 'placebo' can improve conditions common in primary care including pain, dep...
Placebos are commonly defined as ineffective treatments. They are treatments that lack a known mecha...
There is an obvious need for a critical discussion of the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’. I...