Placebos and common factors in two decades of psychotherapy research Two decades of psychotherapy research conceptualizing placebos as variables common across psychotherapies are reviewed. Placebo treatments and placebo controls have been thought to be composed of factors common across psychotherapies by ....
Researchers in Health Psychology use placebos to assess the effectiveness of a drug or treatment as compared to not receiving any treatment. Rather than simply not treating a control group, administering a placebo allows the researchers to examine psychological effects of the drug. When participants ...
Noun1.placebo- an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug active placebo- a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects; "an active placebo mimics the side effects of the experiment...
Placebo effect in randomized, controlled studies of acute bipolar mania and depression. Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group clinical trials have been the standard methodology for establishing the efficacy of new treatm... PE Keck,JA Welge,SL Mcelroy,... - 《Biological Psych...
The article offers information regarding the manipulation of expectancy and anxiety in placebo research and their effects on opioid-induced analgesia. It informs that expectation of outcome in a treatment plays an important role in placebo analgesia and has influence in the efficacy of active pharmacolo...
Aripiprazole monotherapy in nonpsychotic bipolar I depression: results of 2 randomized, placebo-controlled studies. Although most treatment research on bipolar disorder has focused on mania, depressive episodes occur more frequently among patients with bipolar disorder. ... ME Thase,A Jonas,A Khan,.....
More than a decade ago, in an article on evaluative research in casework, the writer came to the conclusion that controls were necessary for really convincing answers to questions about effectiveness of treatment. Although recognition was given to the difficulties involved, and the belief was express...
Implications of Placebos and Nocebos in Clinical Practice The majority of unwanted adverse events and symptoms (AEs) reported by patients in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) often are not caused by the medication, because the same AEs also occur in the placebo group of the study, referring as...
Clinical improvement in the group receiving placebo as part of an inpatient study is consistent with the well-recognized effect that altering the therapeutic environment may significantly contribute to reducing clinical symptoms. The additional subcortical and limbic metabolism decreases seen uniquely in ...
First, in the past decade the application of tDCS has become increasingly popular in neuroscience research investigating both healthy indi- viduals and patient populations. Recent years have seen an enormous increase in the use of tDCS extending well beyond academic and clinical applications to, e....