Oncology & Cancer
Placebo pill eases cancer-related fatigue in study
Patients with advanced cancer often suffer crippling fatigue, but there has been little in the way of relief for them as they battle their disease.
Jun 06, 2022
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News tagged with placebo effect
Health
Lemon water won't detox or energize you, but it may affect your body in other ways
If you believe anecdotes online, drinking lukewarm water with a splash of lemon juice is detoxifying, energizing and soothing.
May 06, 2022
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Attention deficit disorders
Vitamins, minerals improve symptoms for children with ADHD
Children with ADHD and emotional dysregulation who were given a micronutrient-dense formula made of all known vitamins and essential minerals were three times more likely to have better concentration and improved moods, research ...
May 04, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Analysis offers new insights on the placebo effect and how to harness its therapeutic potential
A network of brain regions activated by the placebo effect overlaps with several regions targeted by brain-stimulation therapy for depression, according to a new analysis by a team that included several researchers from Massachusetts ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Medications
In research studies and in real life, placebos have a powerful healing effect on the body and mind
Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said "yes," congratulations, your brain is using its power to create a "placebo effect." For those who said ...
Feb 14, 2022
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Vaccination
Placebo effect accounts for more than two-thirds of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, researchers find
The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person's physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit—a sugar pill, or a syringe full of saline, for example. ...
Jan 18, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Expectations and dopamine can affect outcome of SSRI treatment
Levels of dopamine and the placebo effect can determine whether patients with social anxieties improve when treated with SSRIs. A new study shows the effect was four times higher for patients with high expectations of the ...
Nov 08, 2021
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Neuroscience
Brainstem pathway modulates pain in placebo effect
It's not all in your head, but your expectations can sway your perception of pain intensity. Information about expectations—the driver of the placebo effect—travels from the cortex to groups of cells in the brainstem, ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How placebos work is not fully understood, but alternative theory of consciousness holds some clues
If you've had both of your COVID vaccinations, you may have suffered some side-effects—perhaps headaches, fatigue, fever or a sore arm. These effects are mainly caused by your immune system's reaction to the vaccine. But ...
Sep 08, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Evidence of sustained benefits of pimavanserin for dementia-related psychosis
Evidence of the sustained benefits of an investigational antipsychotic treatment for people with dementia-related psychosis has been published.
Jul 22, 2021
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