The finding also will lead to more precise and accurate clinical trials for pain medications by eliminating individuals with high placebo response before trials. (sciencedaily.com)
A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs designed to control chronic pain caused by nerve damage. (sciencedaily.com)
While such experiments aid understanding of the biological and behavioral underpinning of placebo response in experimental (applied) pain, they translate poorly to the clinic, where pain is mainly chronic in nature, Baliki said. (sciencedaily.com)