placebo
Does a placebo work if you know it’s a placebo?
Patients receiving ‘open label placebos’ had reduced pain compared with those who received ‘treatment as usual’. When the latter group were then offered placebos to supplement their usual treatment, their pain also then reduced.
The nocebo effect
Positive expectations drive the placebo effect, whereas negative expectations drive the nocebo effect. In both cases, the brain simply does what it can to meet these expectations.
The placebo effect
Forty patients with asthma, emphysema, or restrictive lung disease were given an inhaler that contained…
How belief can drive recovery
When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, the placebo effect was frequently dismissed as ‘all…