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The Placebo Effect: A treatment of the mind?
   This drug was actually a placebo! Placebo treatments are usually given
   and sham surgery. The key to the placebo’s success is ensuring the
   The so-called ‘placebo effect’ appears, at first glance, to make no
   show demonstrated the power of the placebo effect through a fake
   clinical trial. Subjects on this trial were given a placebo drug
   allergies. The strength of the placebo was enhanced by the very
   The placebo’s extremely powerful effects were probably due to this
   So if placebos can offer such amazing results without the need for any
   The ability of a placebo to alleviate symptoms is variable both in how
   alleviation. Placebos appear to be more effective when symptoms are
   placebo. Preliminary results indicate that if a particular gene is
   respond to placebo acupuncture. Whether this effect may be replicated
   explanation as to why some people are more susceptible to the placebo
   A study from 1985 hypothesised that the placebo effect relies heavily
   In this study patient’s responses to a placebo rose from 44% to 62%
   the use of placebos. Although there are clear ethical issues arising
   using placebos. Is it unethical not to use something that could help
   Committee for Science and Technology think that the placebo effect is
   prescribed placebo as treatments at least 10 times over the last year.
   physicians in Israel has used placebos in their practice.
   What is important to remember, is that placebos are not a
   placebos have can be highly variable and often unreliable. Whilst some
   people respond positively to treatment with placebos, others experience
   how and why placebos work, and why their success is so variable.
3 Responses to The Placebo Effect: A treatment of the mind?
       “What is important to remember, is that placebos are not a
       placebos have can be highly variable and often unreliable. Whilst
       some people respond positively to treatment with placebos, others
       not trying a placebo raised – at least you are taking it a bit
       seriously. Isn’t the placebo effect interesting? We do know that a
       still see a lot of dismissal of such things as “merely placebo
       for a placebo to be effective.
       optimistic attitude, whether the “placebo” is a pill, a self help