Sentences with phrase «through placebo»

In modern medicine, the mind and associated thoughts and emotions are something that gets in the way of real medicine through the placebo effect, and is responsible for patients being worriers and complainers and generally hysterical.

Open label trials are susceptible to bias through placebo effects.

Critical insights can come to light through a placebo - controlled trial, however.

The researchers told participants that it could improve symptoms through the placebo effect.

Religion accomplishes its good through the placebo effect.

Not exact matches

In particular, they write, clinicians themselves can create a placebo effect through empathy and support.

According to Alice Flaherty, a neuroscientist at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, the placebo theory of suffering is one window through which to view blogging.

«We have long known that there might be ways to tune down the amygdala through biofeedback, meditation, or even the effects of placebos,» said John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

Patients with IBS, based on Rome III criteria, were assigned randomly to groups given pinaverium or placebo at four hospitals in China, from August 2012 through December 2013.

One of the first recorded use of placebos involved Benjamin Franklin who was commissioned by the French king Louis XVI to test the effectiveness of mesmerism, a kind of healing practice which was supposed to act through a healing fluid released from the healer.

Analyzing clinical trial data from 6,710 smokers using varenicline for smoking cessation through Dec. 31, 2014, McKee's team confirmed many prior clinical trial findings in demonstrating that women were less likely than men to quit when using a placebo.

Previous research has already attempted to explain how trust could influence health outcomes, whether through greater honesty from patients, a potential placebo effect, or through a greater adherence to doctors» instructions.

The varenicline group (n = 760) had significantly higher continuous abstinence rates during weeks 15 through 24 than the placebo group (n = 750)(32.1 percent vs 6.9 percent) and during weeks 21 through 24 (37.8 percent vs 12.5 percent) and weeks 21 through 52 (27.0 percent vs 9.9 percent).

To further determine if manipulating fkbp5 could prevent the abnormal paths of extinction learning, Galatzer - Levy looked at data taken from a mouse study in which they were fear conditioned, given doses of dexamethasone or a placebo, and then put through fear extinction training the following day.

Then the drugged mice's endurance shot through the roof: They ran about 70 % farther than trained mice given a placebo, and their running times were similarly increased, Evans's group reports online today in Cell.

Her team combed extensively through the literature and identified «the placebome,» a network of genes that influence the placebo response.

In the new study, the Boston team compared the effects of low - dose epidural to an ineffective saline solution placebo, both of which were delivered through a catheter.

This resulted in a higher absolute number of aggressive prostate cancers in the dutasteride group than in the placebo group — even though the placebo group had a higher rate of prostate cancer.145 (See above «Mechanisms through which 5α - reductase inhibitors promote prostate cancer»)(Neal, please make this a link to this section above) Thus, as we have seen elsewhere, e.g., rofecoxib (Vioxx ®), celecoxib (Celebrex ®), balance in biological processes is more beneficial than absolute interruption.)

A double - blind flight simulation study assessing motor performance in licensed pilots «flying» through pre-specified (and practiced) holding patterns showed that smoking marijuana significantly increased major and minor errors, and led to larger average deviations from the assigned flight sequence, compared to those who smoked placebo cigarettes.

For the study, 40 healthy volunteers absorbed either rose essential oil or a placebo through their skin.

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).

Summit raised the additional capital through an issue of 8,333,333 new ordinary shares (before expenses) whereby the proceeds will be used to: accelerate preparatory activities for a placebo controlled clinical trial of the utrophin modulator ezutromid in patients with -LSB-...]

That is, increased relationship success could arise through expectancy effects; sometimes when people think they are receiving an efficacious drug, for example, they experience the drug's «effects» even if it is an inert placebo.

This study (NIDA #R01DA025616) is a randomized clinical trial (RCT) that will compare an experimental treatment (OutPatient Treatment for Adolescents) to an «active placebo» on key indices (drug use; mental health; behavioral, school, peer, and family functioning; and consumer satisfaction) from pre-treatment through 18 months in order to evaluate its efficacy for youth referred to outpatient treatment of co-occurring substance use and internalizing problems.