Title: Placebo effects /
Authors: Benedetti, F.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Placebos therapeutic use; Placebo Effect; Suggestion; Treatment Outcome; Placebos (Medicine); Placebos (Medicine)
Abstract: This work critically reviews the mechanisms of placebo effects across all medical conditions, diseases, and therapies. Exhaustive in its coverage, and written by a world authority in the field, it is the definitive text on the placebo effect, and essential for researchers and clinicians in all medical specialities.
Contents: General concepts and mechanisms. The traditional concepts of placebo -- A modern view of placebo and placebo-related effects -- Placing placebo effects within the context of the doctor-patient relationship -- Disease-based classification of placebo effects : most studied conditions. Pain -- Diseases of the nervous system -- Mental and behavioral disorders -- Immune and endocrine systems -- Disease-based classification of placebo effects : less-studied conditions. Cardiovascular and respiratory systems -- Gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders.