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    Chapter 1 Placebo and Nocebo Effects: An Introduction to Psychological and Biological Mechanisms
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    Chapter 2 Placebo, Nocebo, and Learning Mechanisms
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    Chapter 3 A Meta-analysis of Brain Mechanisms of Placebo Analgesia: Consistent Findings and Unanswered Questions
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    Chapter 4 Placebo analgesia: cognition or perception.
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    Chapter 5 Pain-related negative emotions and placebo analgesia.
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    Chapter 6 How Positive and Negative Expectations Shape the Experience of Visceral Pain
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    Chapter 7 Placebo Effects in Idiopathic and Neuropathic Pain Conditions
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    Chapter 8 Great Expectations: The Placebo Effect in Parkinson’s Disease
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    Chapter 9 The Effects of Placebos and Nocebos on Physical Performance.
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    Chapter 10 Learned Placebo Responses in Neuroendocrine and Immune Functions
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    Chapter 11 Placebo Responses on Cardiovascular, Gastrointestinal, and Respiratory Organ Functions
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    Chapter 12 Placebo and nocebo effects in itch and pain.
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    Chapter 13 Clinical and ethical implications of placebo effects: enhancing patients' benefits from pain treatment.
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    Chapter 14 Traditional and Innovative Experimental and Clinical Trial Designs and Their Advantages and Pitfalls
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    Chapter 15 Lessons to be Learned from Placebo Arms in Psychopharmacology Trials.
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    Chapter 16 The Emperor's New Drugs: Medication and Placebo in the Treatment of Depression.
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Chapter title
Clinical and ethical implications of placebo effects: enhancing patients' benefits from pain treatment.
Chapter number 13
Book title
Placebo
Published in
Handbook of experimental pharmacology, October 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-44519-8_13
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-66-244518-1, 978-3-66-244519-8
Authors

Klinger R, Flor H, Regine Klinger, Herta Flor, Klinger, Regine, Flor, Herta

Abstract

Expectancy and learning are the core psychological mechanisms of placebo analgesia. They interact with further psychological processes such as emotions and motivations (e.g., anxiety, desire for relief), somatic focus, or cognitions (e.g., attitudes toward the treatment). The development of placebo responsiveness and the actual placebo response in a person is the result of the complex interaction between factors traced back to the individual learning history related to analgesic drugs or treatments and factors of the current context referring to the analgesic or placebo treatment. The aim of this chapter is to depict these complex interactions in a new model of analgesic placebo effects. It joins aspects of the learning history (preexisting experiences and preexisting expectations) of a patient with aspects of the current context (current expectation as a result of external and internal situation in which a pain medication/treatment/placebo is taken, e.g., current information about pain medication, current specific context/cues, desire for pain relief, certainty about upcoming pain relief, current expectation about pain reducing course, current selective attention, increased pain experience, or decreased pain experience). In order to exploit placebo efficacy for an analgesic treatment it is worthwhile to assess in which direction each of these factors exerts its influence in order to maximize placebo effects for a specific patient. By applying placebo mechanisms in this differentiated way, the efficacy of pain treatment can be deliberately boosted.

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Student > Ph. D. Student 7 26%
Student > Master 6 22%
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Lecturer 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 11 41%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 22%
Neuroscience 3 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Unknown 4 15%
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