Medications
Could a placebo pill help ease your back pain?
(HealthDay)—With millions of pain-plagued Americans looking for an alternative to opioids, the solution for some might be no medicine at all.
Sep 12, 2018
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Health
Sexual satisfaction—treating a woman with oxytocin also benefits her male partner
The results of a study conducted at MedUni Vienna under the direction of Michaela Bayerle-Eder, doctor of internal and sexual medicine, showed that the sexual response of men, whose female partners had been treated with the ...
May 18, 2017
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Neuroscience
Placebo sweet spot for pain relief found in brain
Scientists have identified for the first time the region in the brain responsible for the "placebo effect" in pain relief, when a fake treatment actually results in substantial reduction of pain, according to new research ...
Oct 27, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Clinical trial tests spinal manipulation therapy for migraines
Manual-therapy randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are difficult to perform because it's challenging to conceal a placebo when patients are able to physically feel a treatment that's being delivered. Now, though, researchers ...
Oct 3, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Placebo effects in women are boosted by vasopressin
A new study in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that women are particularly susceptible to the pain-relieving placebo effect of vasopressin.
May 3, 2016
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Teaching neurons to respond to placebos as potential treatment for Parkinson's
They found that it is possible to turn a neuron which previously hasn't responded to placebos (placebo 'non-responder' neuron) into a placebo 'responder' by conditioning Parkinson patients with apomorphine, a dopaminergic ...
Feb 9, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Placebo power: Depressed people who respond to fake drugs get the most help from real ones
When it comes to treating depression, how well a person responds to a fake medicine may determine how well they'll respond to a real one, new research finds.
Sep 30, 2015
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Medications
How 'open-label' placebos turn fake pills into real treatment
This may not sound like a good idea:
Jun 23, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Antidepressants beneficial for women with postnatal depression
Antidepressants are associated with better rates of treatment response and remission for women with postnatal depression, when compared to a placebo, according to a new systematic review by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology ...
May 19, 2015
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Medications
Certain genes might make some people more prone to experience the placebo effect
Placebos have helped to ease symptoms of illness for centuries and have been a fundamental component of clinical research to test new drug therapies for more than 70 years. But why some people respond to placebos and others ...
Apr 13, 2015
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