Placebo effects : understanding the mechanisms in health and disease

Placebo effects : understanding the mechanisms in health and disease / Fabrizio Benedetti.

This is the first book to critically review the mechanisms of placebo effects across all medical conditions, diseases and therapies. It is the definitive text on the placebo effect, and will be essential for researchers and clinicians in all medical specialties.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benedetti, Fabrizio
Corporate Author: Electronic Book Collection
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Placebos (Medicine)
Mental suggestion.
Outcome assessment (Medical care)
Mental suggestion
Neurologie
Placebo
Placebo's.
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Table of Contents:
  • The traditional concept of placebo
  • A modern view of placebo and placebo-related effects
  • Pain
  • Disorders of the nervous system
  • Mental and behavioural disorders
  • Immune and endocrine systems
  • Cardiovascular and respiratory system
  • Gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders
  • Special medical conditions and therapeutic interventions
  • Clinical-ethical implications and applications
  • How to run a placebo study : a closer look into complex experimental designs.

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