Sentences with phrase «than a placebo effect»

While a few studies have indicated that cupping may reduce pain and increase well being, as The New York Times notes there's scant research to determine whether it's anything more than a placebo effect.

THE MEANING In the end, the researchers found that most patients who take antidepressants may glean little from them other than a placebo effect.

It has been shown to have no more than the placebo effect.

Postexercise cold water immersion benefits are not greater than the placebo effect.

At that rate I could hardly see much more than a placebo effect using Himalayan salt.

The only thing that will make a big difference on an economy car motor (ie, more than a placebo effect) in terms of acceleration is forced induction.

You used to blow into your NES cartridges to make them work (even though it was probably nothing more than the Placebo Effect).

Benveniste had become convinced that he and his team had discovered compelling evidence for a real, measurable mechanism behind homeopathy (other than the placebo effect).

There are several power - saving Android apps that aim to help with this issue, but very few offer anything more than a placebo effect.

Not exact matches

I rather have a placebo with no side effects than your best crafted chemically produced scientific cure that gives me a thousand other symptoms in the long run.

We are sometimes so busy demonstrating that a therapy is «more than a placebo,» we forget that the effects of symbols and therapeutic encounters can be valuable in and of themselves and that these and other «placebo effects» are foundational to medicine as a healing profession.»

Scientists showed placebo pill ingestion is associated with a strong analgesia effect, with more than half of the patients reporting significant pain relief.

Story number 3: Study subjects who wash down a placebo pill with a strange tasting drink got more of a placebo effect than those who took the pill with plain water.

CEO Isy Goldwasser says the company has devoted three years to ensuring Thync's effects were stronger than placebo, and he calls placebo «the enemy».

«For example, a non-blind trial of a new drug might conclude that it is way more effective than a placebo, when in fact the drug's true effect is rather modest, simply because the researchers» expectations biased the results.»

And although the side effects from XBD173 were similar to those of placebos, such as gastrointestinal problems, there were far fewer problems than with alprazolam.

To explain why antidepressants in such trials nevertheless often cause greater symptom relief than placebo, it has been suggested that SSRI - induced side effects will make the patient understand that he or she has not been given placebo, hence enhancing his or her belief of having been given an effective treatment.

Thus, so far, it has never been investigated whether individuals in clinical trials experiencing side effects from antidepressant medication, and for this reason may have guessed that they have not received placebo, also respond more favorably to treatment than those without side effects.

Overall, the studies suggested that the herb was more effective than a placebo and just as effective as antidepressants such as Prozac yet came with fewer side effects.

This was much higher than the effect seen in patients receiving placebo (1 in 10) and met the pre-specified primary end - point.

The team found that HRT was more effective at this than a placebo, and seemed to have the most effect in women in the early stages of menopause, and those experiencing other life stresses.

On the other hand, placebos have a stronger effect in depressed patients than in those with an anxiety disorder.

And yet surgeries have a much bigger placebo effect than drugs.

Findings also Highlight Acupuncture's Ability to Induce a Stronger Placebo Effect than Oral Medications

«We can't show, on the one hand, that it's better than placebo, but some men do have an improvement in their symptoms, and there seem to be virtually no side effects,» he says.

«But our bodies are designed to keep our nutrient levels consistent, so taking a single big dose of Vitamin B after a big night may have more of a placebo effect than anything else.»

Zoloft (sertraline) and Remeron (mirtazapine), which are both available as generics, also generated more — and more severe — side effects than placebo, leading the researchers to suggest that these and other antidepressants should be reserved for dementia patients whose depression fails to respond to more conservative treatments, such as psychotherapy.

Other side effects experienced by a small percentage of the Contrave groups, but less than 1 % of the placebo groups, included nausea, headaches, and dizziness.

Basically, some people tend to get a bigger placebo or nocebo effect than others.

The placebo effect has been widely researched, but new studies have shown that nocebo can have a greater effect than placebo.

After 6 months, the prostate size in the nettle group was significantly smaller than that of the placebo group, and long - term effects of stinging nettle treatment were seen even after discontinuation.

Runners who drank two to three pints of nonalcoholic beer after running in the weeks leading up to and after a marathon were less likely than those who drank a placebo beverage to suffer respiratory ailments and had less inflammation, an effect the researchers postulated may be a result of the rich mix of polyphenols found in beer (with or without alcohol).

A new placebo - controlled, blinded, crossover trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that the phytonutrients in Montmorency tart cherries (Prunus cerasus) have a beneficial effect on early hypertension, or blood pressure slightly higher than the ideal 120/80 mmHg.

In another study, Anti-inflammatory effects of a low arachidonic acid diet and fish oil in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Germany's Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt der LMU, patients who were given daily capsules of fish oil with their antirheumatic medications saw greater benefits for swollen and tender joints than patients given a placebo, apparently because of the oil's anti-inflammatory properties.

They found that one bodybuilder went from 160 pullups max to 620 pullups over a 6 week period using this «cool - therapy», thats a lot more improvement than can be explained away by placebo effect.

Previously, from the age of fifteen to 30 I likely wouldn't have gone more than 3 days without masturbating, so whether this is a placebo effect (unlikely) after all my research or no faping as they say, genuinely does wonders for the males testosterone levels and wellbeing.

While some review studies on the substance indicate St. John's Wort is better than a placebo at treating mild to moderate depression with fewer side effects than traditional antidepressants, other review studies have found no difference in effectiveness.

In some cases the placebo effect is nearly as good and sometimes even better than the actual treatment.

Taking less than about 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day, with or without calcium, had no effect on bone - fracture risk when compared with taking a placebo or a calcium supplement alone.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

Clinical studies of glucosamine hydrochloride (glucosamine) and sodium chondroitin sulfate in humans found that, except for a subgroup of participants with moderate - to - severe pain, they had no better effect on joint health or pain than placebos.

The bottom line is, while there are probably more reasons to see warming in the data than not, there is room for controversy — the whole thing could be a giant placebo effect.

In many cases, battery saving apps are just placebo effects that do more harm than good.

A previous trial evaluating fluoxetine found no effect on alcohol consumption, but fluoxetine did reduce Ham - D - 24 scores more than placebo treatment among the 14 % of study subjects who had comorbid depression.1

Although venlafaxine and paroxetine had significantly (p < 0.001) larger weighted mean effect sizes comparing drug to placebo conditions (ds = 0.42 and 0.47, respectively) than fluoxetine (d = 0.22) or nefazodone (0.21), these differences disappeared when baseline severity was controlled.