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  1. Jun 1, 2021 · Placebos are fake therapies that can induce real therapeutic effects, called placebo effects. It goes without saying that what matters for inducing a placebo effect is not so much the fake treatmen...

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  2. Jun 2, 2021 · Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common? Current Directions in Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Placebos are fake therapies that can induce real therapeutic effects, called placebo effects.

    • Placebos have a dark cousin: nocebos. A 29-year-old builder went to the hospital after having jumped onto a 15cm nail that pierced his boot. Moving the nail was so painful he had to be sedated with powerful drugs (fentanyl and midazolam) to remove it.
    • Placebos work even if people know they are placebos. Linda Buonanno suffered so badly from irritable bowel syndrome that she often couldn’t leave the house for weeks.
    • Honest placebos are ethically acceptable. It is often considered unethical for doctors to give placebos to patients because this supposedly involves lying (telling patients that a sugar pill is a powerful medication).
    • Placebo effects are part of most treatment effects. When a doctor prescribes ibuprofen for back pain, the effects are due to the ibuprofen and the patient’s beliefs and expectations, which can be influenced by the doctor’s communication.
  3. Oct 6, 2021 · – Listen to Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common? by Current Directions in Psychological Science Podcast instantly on your tablet, phone or browser - no downloads needed.

  4. Jun 1, 2021 · Placebos are fake therapies that can induce real therapeutic effects, called placebo effects. It goes without saying that what matters for inducing a placebo effect is not so much the fake treatment itself, but rather the therapeutic ritual that is carried out, which is capable of triggering psychobiological mechanisms in the patient’s brain.

  5. Listen to Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?, an episode of Current Directions in Psychological Science Podcast, easily on Podbay - the best podcast player on the web.

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  7. Listen to this episode from Current Directions in Psychological Science Podcast on Spotify. Robert Goldstone of the Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University and editor of the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science interviews Fabrizio Benedetti, Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Turin Medical School in Turin, Italy, and Director of ...

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