How the Placebo Effect Works Introduction to How the Placebo Effect Works Placebos: Is It All in Your Head? Placebos in Research Prescribing Placebos * DiscoveryHealth.com: Pros/Cons of Placebos That's the gist of the placebo effect. It's what happens when a person condition. The medicine or treatment itself is known as a placebo, from Latin for "I will please." There are a few different types of placebos. active ingredients. These types of placebos often contain basic particular condition can also be placebos. There have even been placebos in the form of surgery, injections and other types of medical medicine count as placebos, too. Placebos have been shown to work in about 30 percent of patients, and placebos simply evoke a psychological response. The act of taking them indicates that placebos may also bring about a physical response. In prescribing a placebo. After all, he or she is doing it to help the Although we've long known that placebos can work, we've only recently theories behind the therapeutic effects of placebos. Freeman, Shanna. "How the Placebo Effect Works" 13 January 2009. 03 January Introduction to How the Placebo Effect Works Placebos: Is It All in Your Head? Placebos in Research Prescribing Placebos The Placebo Prescribing Controversy How the Placebo Effect Works doctor gives an adult a placebo, is that any different?