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Effects
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Mechanisms
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Ethics
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History
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Overview
- Medicine
- Saline Saline (medicine)
- Sham surgery
- Randomized clinical trials Randomized controlled trial
- Medical treatments Drug
- Placebo-controlled Placebo-controlled study
- Control Scientific control
- Shield test participants Blinded experiment
- Consent
- Efficacy
- Pain
- Nausea
- Regression to the mean
- Informed consent
- Disease
Etymology and definition
- Latin
- Treatment Medical treatment
- Patient
- Regression toward the mean
- Blood pressure
Effects
- Asbjørn Hróbjartsson
- Peter C. Gøtzsche
- Parkinson's disease
- Immune Immune system
- Endocrine Endocrine system
- Autonomic nervous system
- Sport
- Response bias
- Observer bias
- Analgesia
- JAMA Psychiatry
- Neuropathic pain
- Open-label placebo Open-label trial
- Meta-analysis
- Irving Kirsch
- Food and Drug Administration
- Effect size
- Side-effects Adverse effect (medicine)
- Women's Health Initiative
- Hormone replacement therapy Hormone replacement therapy (menopause)
- Menopause
- Withdrawal Drug withdrawal
Ethics
Mechanisms
- Stimulant
- Heart rhythm
- Depressant
- Classical conditioning
- Motivation
- Functional imaging
- Placebo analgesia
- Anterior cingulate
- Prefrontal Prefrontal cortex
- Orbitofrontal Orbitofrontal cortex
- Insular Insular cortex
- Nucleus accumbens
- Amygdala
- Brainstem
- Periaqueductal gray matter
- Spinal cord
- Endogenous opioids
- Nociceptive reflexes Withdrawal reflex
- Dopaminergic reward pathways Dopamine pathways
- Saccharin
- Cyclophosphamide
- Immunosuppression Immunosuppressive
- Serum iron levels Serum iron
- Oxidative DNA damage DNA oxidation
- Insulin
- Immunosuppression
- Depression Depression (mood)
Confounding factors
History
- Sic
- Gaston de Lévis Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis, Duke of Lévis
- Michel-Philippe Bouvart
- The brain's role in physical health Neural top–down control of physiology
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Nodes91
Edges90
Triples179
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021978
Components1
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Placebo
Top relations
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has effect · 17
Placebo → Another, Another Cochrane, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, For, Gøtzsche, In, It, Latin, Measuring, Other, Parkinson's, Peter, Recent, Several, The, This, When
related to Cultural influences · 11
Placebo → Cultural, Even, However, In, It, Its, Nevertheless, Religious, Since, The, These
related to Brain and body · 10
Placebo → After, DNA, Dopaminergic, For, In, Pacheco-López, Parkinson's, Recent, Such, There
related to Depression · 10
Placebo → Another, Besides, Drug Administration, FDA, Food, However, In, Irving Kirsch, Kirsch, The
related to In medical practice · 9
Placebo → British Medical Journal, Critics, Despite, Israeli, The, There, This, United States, While
related to External links · 7
Placebo → Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center, Harvard Medical School, PiPS, Placebo Studies, Program, Therapeutic Encounter
related to Factors influencing the power of the placebo effect · 7
Placebo → Another, Individual, JAMA Psychiatry, Pain, People, The, United States
related to In research trials · 7
Placebo → Declaration, Helsinki, Informed, Knowingly, Of, The, While
related to Psychology · 7
Placebo → According, Both, Conditioning, In, Irving Kirsch, Similarly, Those
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| pain | instance of | Modern studies find that placebos can affect some outcomes | 0.80 | text |
| nausea | instance of | Modern studies find that placebos can affect some outcomes | 0.80 | text |
| but otherwise do not generally have important clinical effects | instance of | Modern studies find that placebos can affect some outcomes | 0.80 | text |
| serum iron levels | instance of | Such conditioning has been found to affect a diverse variety of not just basic physiological processes in the immune system but ones | 0.80 | text |
| oxidative DNA damage levels | instance of | Such conditioning has been found to affect a diverse variety of not just basic physiological processes in the immune system but ones | 0.80 | text |
| and insulin secretion | instance of | Such conditioning has been found to affect a diverse variety of not just basic physiological processes in the immune system but ones | 0.80 | text |
| prayers | instance of | Religious practices or rituals | 0.80 | text |
| meditation can activate brain processes that are closely linked to expectation | instance of | Religious practices or rituals | 0.80 | text |
| emotional control | instance of | Religious practices or rituals | 0.80 | text |
| religion provide a psychological effect on the medical outcome of the patient | instance of | while many other cultural rituals and practices | 0.80 | text |
| resulting in a placebo effect | instance of | while many other cultural rituals and practices | 0.80 | text |
| Placebo | has effect | The | 0.60 | section |
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